Category: Morning

Morning · weather

early to bed, etc.

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sleepy Cocker spaniel

I managed to lie down to sleep, and actually relaxed and slept ’til morning. My Scamper, Thaddeus, slept beside me, and then on my legs, and I felt cozy warm. Enjoyed visiting with a door-to-door sales representative, local college student from northern Europe, while Al got ready to leave for his volunteer shift. at the range.

I remember door-to-door sales to earn money for (a) a Celestron reflector telescope (in junior high school), and (b) week-long Summer music camps in north-central Minnesota with extras for individual instruction and brass ensemble.

I really enjoyed picking up conversations with absolute strangers. And in a village that small, everyone looked out for the kids as we took off alone when we were out of school.

I wish that I remembered those years more clearly, but then everything was unremarkable. Not worth keeping track of. Huh!

Coffee Time · Morning

Sun behind the haze

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The weather report said “Sunny”. No such thing! Smoke high in the sky and falling towards the ground. No outside photographs today or tomorrow, and possibly the day after that. Enjoyed my dried nut mix, Toddy coffee with milk, and very dark chocolate (10g). Going to finish reading the book I started last night.

May the sun shine on you and your day, wherever you are!

P.S. Reading Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh, my current non-fiction selection.

Life Through My Windows · Morning

Left unseen

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When I first awoke, this morning, and ventured out with the Scampers, the grass was much taller than yesterday and heavy with dew. [Moccasins now drying in front of the air vent.] I think it is too soon to see aphids about, but I found a photo of one from earlier years. They drink water from rain and dew drops.

I am slow to move around, once done with feeding the Scamper pups, putting on the day’s coffee to brew, and fixing my own breakfast. [Allergy Index 10.2/12; AQI PM2.5 89 (moderate)]

The time has come to move around and exercise, now that I am hydrated. Elliptical machine with an eBook in hand. The dogs are snoring.

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Break Time · Life Through My Windows · Morning

Rain, Go Away

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through the night, thunderstorms rumbled overhead….
grateful for the leaf

Finally got to sleep, closer to morning than evening. Enjoyed rereading the end of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Isolate. (The first of a new series … the third novel comes out in August..) As with Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Clifford D. Simak, I would buy Modesitt’s without knowing anything about the story. We awakened to partly cloudy skies, and now the noontime sun!

The Scampers have eaten theirr breakfast. Time for a noontime nap. .The clean-up trucks are almost done with pick-up on our block. I may nap with the Scampers while the other of us eats beef stew at his eatery of choice.

Aside · Break Time · Morning

Midmorning tea

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A lovely morning, here. I got out later than usual (sleeping Scampers), and so, no dew on the grass. The flowerbed was mostly in shadows, and I got some photographs of morning sunlight shining through tall blades of grass. And also some blue wild flax and white campions and alyssums.

This week has gone by all too rapidly, thanks in part to my spending so much time reading and so little on everything else.

I am spending part of my lunchtime write-in taking a break from…nothing? to pay attention to other than books and mind-wandering.

Focus!

At one o’clock this afternoon, there will be a meeting for worship with concern for healing. One of my goals for today is to eat a proper meal beforehand, instead of defaulting to yogurt and fruit. Last night Al brought home store-made salads for us (cobb and chef’s salads/mine and his). I have been hungry for blue cheese, lately. Wondering what is lacking in my diet to trigger that.

This week, I have returned to my dancing exercises, now that both the smoke and pollen have left this area. My body just snapped back into place, and I feel really good. A far cry from the way I felt when I headed to the ER to get myself checked out for possible heart attack. Poor air quality is something I must pay more attention to. Something that has become a THING!

In reading, I have gone back to the (chronological) beginning of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover books. I cannot believe how long it’s been since I read some of them. Time enough for them to go out of print, and then finally come out in new editions in Omnibus collections. Restocking with the ones I didn’t have in epub format.

A few pictures from this morning…best wishes for your day!

Flax Flowers & Blades of Grass