I Like Thursday # 488 calendars and photos

 

I've been playing with my camera's art option button,  on walks and that's dried grasses 

a lot of the camera's options don't suit me but... the ones that do are going to be fun to use in new ways

along the way this week...

I got to visit with this beauty and her mom... she is VEWY OLD and so engaging... she and her mom are both charming and fun to chat with. The mom said, we're supposed to get snow tonight... probably will turn into a dusting. (disgusted like most of us that we have only had 2 small snows and little cool weather) 

As it happened, we got 3" of wet snow that melted when the sun came up

oy vey, winter why have you forsaken us? By the way, if you look up the high and low temps for Aurora, always increase heat for the sun factor, and increase sun because of thin atmosphere at over 6000 ft. 

oooo tired of shoveling already? 

4 out of a Meeelion geese who winter here now... on the putting green pooping... wonder how that affects the lie of the land? 

ducks avoiding icebergs

spectacular sunset

I'm doing two sewing/quilting challenges along with the usual rainbow scrap challenge, those posts are on Saturdays... but here is last week's project quilting art piece

and the round robin center I'll be working on starts with this 

got a new pair of RYKA walking shoes.... two thumbs up!  Love them and the cuddle duds fleece leggings that look like sweaters for my legs...

Just finished this season of BBC's Midsomer Mysteries, it was great but only 4 episodes... now it's time to finally open this new season of The Traitors, (waited til there were several episodes available ) 

Our conversation starter this week is

do you like, buy, have calendars ? I mean paper calendars of any type, diary style to go by the computer up to wall ones, and including have you ever printed ones yourself with your pet or children's pics on it? 

I don't like these "pull a page off a day" style, for me

I have a love of calendars though.... I loved my desk top big squares month at a glance one that I had on my desk top (when I was a social worker)... places to jot notes, ideas, who I met with, deadlines. 

Now I do all computer work at the kitchen table so I like a diary style, week at a glance with monthly areas, areas for addresses, notes etc

this one has pretty flowers and bird drawings, and lots of places to jot notes, lays flat showing that week

I have a wall calendar in the kitchen desk area, this year it's color my world, full of paintings and happy colors, shows a month at a time with a pretty picture over it

I also love having a Mary Englebreit calendar hanging on the studio wall so I can see it behind the sewing machine 

I do not like looking at a calendar on a phone or Ipad.... too small, not easy to write on, and I love to write with a pen... then I remember things!

I'm not doing great, my body is a challenge, no dog yet despite a friend calling to say a 2 year old was at the shelter 45 min from us.... she was just spayed so we couldn't bathe her, and I had just left chiro so a long drive was too hard, so I was sad.... very concerned about domestic issues...

I made the olive oil lemon cake recipe my friend Diane sent, again. This time I added a glaze of powdered sugar, almond extract, and cream.... it's now a dessert, small but good!

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