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Whatcha Doin?

 

This morning, I'm going to the post office to mail two packages for an art exchange. One package is going to Toots in Australia, my exchange partner. The other package is going to Tiggy, the exchange hostess as a thank you for coordinating the exchange.

Whatcha doin?

T Stands for What You Can do With Simple Glasses of Water

 

From Minatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, a model train plays classical music as it moves along its track. 

Sit back with your favorite beverage, relax, and enjoy this happy, little, time waster.

Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth’s blog to find out what the rest of the T gang is up to. If you want to play, include a beverage or beverage container in your post. Don’t forget to link your blog from Bleubeard and Elizabeth’s page.

The Official Cat of Massachusetts

Photo by Lucas Pezeta: https://www.pexels.com/photo/potrait-photo-of-shorthaired-cat-1909008/

Sandra from Sandra's Place mentioned in her Did You Know series that the official cat of Maryland is the Calico.

I had to be a copycat to see if Massachusetts has a state cat. We do!  From Massachusetts Law Updates:

"The tabby cat was named the official cat of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1988, in response to the wishes of school children.

Massachusetts General Law chapter 2, section 30  simply states the cat’s official status. It does not define what a tabby cat is.

A tabby is not a specific breed, but the term refers instead to a type of fur pattern (actually four of them). Every breed of domestic cat carries the tabby gene.  The tabby’s name descends from the Arabic term attabiya, a kind of striped silk originally made in the Attabiy neighborhood of Baghdad. "

How Does Your Garden Grow?

A new month

The Hobbits are ready

Bring out yer dead!

Daffodils poke through

A herd of robins in the neighbor's yard

Spring has sprung!

Himself got the greenhouse ready for the season

Peas and beans

10 yds. full, almost done.

How does your garden grow?

Saturday Mornings at the Library

 When I was 5 years old, I was forced to take dancing lessons while the Brother was forced to take accordion lessons. I hated dancing class. The Knights of Columbus Hall where the classes were given had no heat or it wasn't turned on. I hated wearing the pink beginner tights. I liked clacking around in the tap shoes, but Ma wouldn't let me practice inside the house on the wood floors. I spent most of my time in class being miserable and crying. Eventually, I was taken out of class.

While the Brother still had to endure accordion lessons, Dad took me to the library. He would leave me upstairs in the children's library where I could look at the books and choose to take some books home with my own library card. As I got older, I would go downstairs to the adult library and wander among the stacks enjoying the scent of the books before going to find Dad in the reference area consulting the law books and catching up on his work.

So for the next several weeks, a list of my favorite books, some I have read as a child, others as an adult and some  I have read more than once.

This week, Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary of the English Languages. Obsolete and out of print, but still a favorite.

If you haven't read this book, you can find the up to date version online at https://www.merriam-webster.com/ Besides the joy of searching the dictionary, there are Games and Quizzes, Thesaurus, Word of the Day, and more happy, little, time waster fun.

The Friday Five Good Things

 

Five good things that happened this week.

1. While cleaning the sun room, I found Ink’s last rabies shot tag, a red heart. Sweet message.

2. While trying to think of what I was going to have for lunch, I remembered I had fish fry leftovers 

3. I had lamented last Friday we didn't have any oyster crackers to go with the fish chowder we get at the drive-by fish fry. Himself had gone to the grocery store to pick up a few things and brought home oyster crackers for this week.

4. The Young One and I made a good dent in the garage/basement clean-out

5. Himself planned take out with leftovers and the drive-by fish fry so I didn't have to cook this week.

How was your week?