Went To A Garden Party

For me, music and beer, thoughts of Mom's retirement party from long ago, and then, meeting new people. The Dad originally from Ovid, now Romulus, and the son with a Detroit Lions shirt on - which is what got me talking to them - not a player but in a position with the team in marketing and tickets. Lots of people and places the dad and I both knew and good talk of football with the son. 

Taughannock Farms, Grateful Dead, my youth, and football and new acquaintances all mixed in together. 

A Great Garden Party

Just Tired

Just. Too many men use just to tell women what they should do .... as in this morning, even as I was doing that exact thing they were suggesting. Geez! (And yes, reading a reddit site today trying to see if others feel the same as I do about the word, a few tried to say it wasn't necessarily tied to gender - wrong, at least to this woman's experience.)* 

Tired of Just

* On a side note, past the gender thread was this guy confusing 'spreading and 'splaining. Why do I think this guy probably mansplains?

Reading

This is me, often. I try to follow the trail of denials, stays, and all the other law terms, while also the threads of negative or positive on negatives, and sometimes make it through, but like this one, I give up. 

Reading, I can do. Comprehension?

Has Never Been So Hard

America

July 4th, 2026, a day of celebration for some; 

                             a day of mourning for others. 

250 years. 

              

What will the next 50 years bring?

What Are You?

I Say "You Bet!"

Even though my go-to color is now black, I love a bit of color. My sneakers, my RED clogs, they make me feel young and happy. I don't need an article to tell me that, but hey, it hit me when it mentioned mugs, yes, mugs. What I have my coffee in in the morning matters to me, as does the plate I eat dinner on (we have a variety of Corelle dinner plates.) I have my favorites. Why shouldn't I enjoy the color and artwork I want?

The little things in life make meaning in my life, and I like joy wherever I can find it!

Splash It Up!

Summertime

 

The first draft.

Homework

Natural Chimneys Park, VA: The Creek

The old swimmin' hole: where festival goers go to cool off. 

Not this year.

Dry.