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Eerie skies, a plethora of lobster and how you know you’re getting old.

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Now and then, right before sunset in the summer… we have an eerie backyard light.

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Sadly none of those rain clouds dropped anything on us.

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But they made for pretty pictures.

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Now that is a bowl of lobster stew.

No tiny minced pieces or disappointing puree there. No sir.

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Much as I hate to admit it, I’ve finally reached the age where a new sheet of stamps excites me. I may have oohed when I first saw this one.

Sigh.

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I’d live here anyway, but it’s nice to know we have high rankings.

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This is now a skunk water dish.

Other backyard critters need not apply.

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The husband at a yard sale, or more precisely a barn sale.

The barn was filled with rusty old things and he was in heaven.

See the sign posted on that giant cabbage shredder?

He bought the shredder.

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53 thoughts on “Eerie skies, a plethora of lobster and how you know you’re getting old.”

  5. He seems to keep his energy as you can see him at the sales. A hobby! I wish I could get the husband to slow down. I am doing my PT exercises and he is off to Lowe’s for 12 bags of mulch for the garden. I asked, “Why not wait?” and he replied, “Time is good right now.” Slow down.

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      2. Cancer is such an evil thing. Great that his appetite has returned though. My husband is 79 and quite active. Has a few health issues but thankfully nothing debilitating.

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      6. Thanks to summer vacays in the car, and a reckless dad, I have been in multiple desert flash floods. They’re horrifying! We once drove into one and, knowing we’d float away if we pulled off the road, my dad pulled behind a big rig and said, “wherever he’s going, we’re going too.” When we were finally out of it and stopped, there was water inside our trailer – it came in through the wheel wells, 24″ off the ground.

        Sole bright side: When the 1996-ish flash flood happened in Cypress, Calif – where I lived and worked, I was the only person at the office who understood what was happening and did not leave the office. One coworker had a water line on her car window (dunno how it didn’t stall). We saw an ambulance try to drive over a center divider, to get around the traffic jam, and sink a couple feet into the muddy grass. It was the first time emergency alert was ever used for weather here and one coworker, who’d had the sense to pull into a parking lot, said she heard the it and thought, “Great… all this AND the Russians are bombing us too!”

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      8. I was a young teen and the lightning, literally horizon to horizon, and visible with my eyes shut tight and face in a pillow, got me over my fear of lightning! My parents must have been terrified of what might happen, esp my dad! Doubly so considering I’d pointed out the lightning, far in the distance, when we stopped for dinner. He said we weren’t going that direction but didn’t bother to pull over when we started heading into it.

        He also drove us through the mountains outside Las Vegas when the rain literally looked like a firehose was pointed dirrctly at the windshield.

        I, on the other hand, cancelled plans when at a hotel in Vegas and the flood only (due to intense rain in mtns) hit. For some reason, the underground storm drains opened into the ground floor of the hotel’s parking structure then went back underground on the next street. I found a safe place to watch the fury, thinking kayakers would prob love it.

        So, adding in the Cypress event, that’s at least 5 flash floods that I’ve been in.

        Bonus round: Dad also ignored when I pointed out dark storm clouds backing up on very close mountains as we hiked in a meadow. Sure enough… caught in hail and had to cross a creek with us being the tallest things in the meadow and no shelter as we saw huge bolts of lightning striking the mountain.

        I wonder if he ever learned respect for weather.

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  11. I adore your hubby’s collecting!

    I’m waiting to see what’s gonna happen with our weekend weather. There’s the possibility of a Pacific hurricane and predictions change hourly from torrential rain to nothing.

    Great stamps!! I think my faves are the circular stamps that I nearly threw out because they look like stickers (very hard to see the “forever” text) and a sheet of Dia de los Muertos stamps.

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      1. Dang, I missed the Keith Haring ones! The prev circular stamps where textured to match the sport balls shown. The current ones aren’t, thus why they seem like stickers. I nearly threw away 2 full sheets! I might order the triangular International postcard forever stamps and get on Postcards com again.

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      3. That is what the anesthesiologist from Egypt told me when I just calmly watched the long needle go in my hip on the screen. He said, “Some of the SEALS will scream and not a peep from you.” High compliment!

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      6. I had a hysterectomy 18 years ago and they removed this big tumor. I had an interview for a teaching position two weeks later and I went. I think the director knew as he walked me to my car that something was up.

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      8. I understand. Mine was bleeding and a huge tumor. I continued teaching from Halloween until the end of the school year. My first year teaching elementary and then I had the operation during the summer. The hospital stay was great and I had a private room. Mike was working a lot so I just tried to recup at home.

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    1. No segregating. The deer avoid the skunks but the woodchucks and raccoons will eat along side them. The skunks just show up early enough in the evening to take pictures. Though I have seen them nudge the raccoons aside to get to the water bowl.

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