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SPOOKY MAMA AND CUB YESTERDAY  Knowing it was going to get brutally hot with thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon, I was out of the house early for ’town’ … grocery shopping and such. I could think of any number of ways I’d rather spend my time, but it’s part of my ‘job’, so off I went… no time to supply the Hard Rock Diner or grab the SD card from the Bushnell trail cam. I needn’t have worried. Later when I did check, the only three exposures it had taken were of me walking up to change out the SD card! I guess Buddy had other priorities this morning as well ... which is a very good thing. Buddy SHOULD be off exploring, foraging, and mating :-) I want cubbies next year! |
It was a beautiful morning here in Pennsylvania, so on the spur of the moment, I put the top down in the convertible. Now, we’d just taken it out of the garage for the summer and I’m not quite up to speed with what I customarily carry in the car. No hat, no barrette, nothing to tie up my longish, graying hair. Oh well, I found that if ya go fast enough, the hair stands straight out and doesn’t get in your face very much☺ I must have been a sight driving those winding rural two lane roads, behaving like a much younger woman. I FELT younger, so I really don’t give a hoot if the teenagers at the summer camps saw me and laughed. I know I was laughing, and singing along with Brad, and thoroughly enjoying the 25 mile ride.
I think the Universe was having a good day as well. I found some excellent items on the discontinued rack (including fragrance-free Endust 50% off, score!!!); the stores were not overly crowded, and the rain held off til I had loaded everything in the car. At the garden shop, I grabbed a few more tomato and squash plants, and my fish emulsion fertilizer concentrate. Two more stops… bought 7 feeder goldfish at the Pet Shop. Then to Beach Lake Bread for a loaf. Another score, spinach filled croissants ½ price. And the “Rustic Bread” loaf I got fresh from the ovens ($4.50) is almost the size of a large brown grocery bag. I’ll freeze half I’m sure. Bread is my weakness, along with cheese, and wine. Mmmm sounds like supper. Hubby will probably want meat with his bread and cheese though. Maybe I’ll roast a red bell pepper and onion. Oh, I also found some BAREFOOT Sweet Red table wine ~ a VERY good, not very sweet red for $7/bottle, and Breyers Dark Chocolate Velvet ice cream on sale for $2.99.
While I was gone (or so it seemed), my Giant Siberian Iris began to open! I also see the clematis is flowering (and needing some attention),
and the Hope Echinacea looks like it's about to flower as well.
As I said, the Universe was smiling today. ‘Except for the fact that I saw no bears. Well, not yet anyway☺
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Zitkala-Ša ( 1876-1938), later known as Gertrude Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. Her Sioux mother, Táte I Yóhin Win (Reaches for the Wind), was also known as Ellen Simmons. After being brought up in the oral traditions of the Sioux, Gertrude Simmons left home to attend a missionary boarding school in the east. The shock of the transition between cultures is described vividly in her writing."A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan." Zitkala-Sa
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