Memorial Day
Yesterday was as quiet at Casa Claire as the Three (still snow covered) Witches. Fitting, as our flags commemorated Memorial Day. God bless the Fallen and their families. The Gnomes and supernatural weathervanes looked on in respectful silence. Lisa did a per diem nursing shift to help out staffing on a Holiday. Luke and Georgie […]
East Coast Bee Keepers
Yesterday, my DIL Sara (née Moran) sent me some videos of an emergent situation where Mark was called by one of their neighbors to help deal with a swarm of honeybees that had alighted in one of the neighbor’s trees. Now according to my online research: “A honeybee swarm is when one colony splits into two […]
Clean Up In Aisle One
Yesterday morning started with a face spa day visit to my favorite barber, Anna (Kaye Martinez-Hernandez), at the Rose Salon right next to the Berthoud Post Office. I’m adding a face spa day requirement to any offer of heaven or I’m not going. (Of course, hell just won’t be hell if they offer a face […]
Sliding Through Friday
Yesterday was enjoyably quiet. Luke and Georgie took the kids out to the local rec center in the morning and otherwise kept them occupied elsewhere throughout most of the day. So I was back focusing on my fur family and other non-human visitors to Casa Claire. Claire and Honey were acting a bit suspicious by […]
Friday Before Memorial Day Weekend
For most of us, Fridays are awesome. Full stop. All potential. I’m not sure who created the concept of a five day school or work week, but one of the side benefits are that on the last day of that school/work week most people have one eye on the clock, and one foot pointing towards […]
Flower Moon Grounding
This morning’s first official day of May’s Flower Moon did not disappoint. But it was the lead up to the event that made it all the more worthwhile. Lisa went out and bought the three grans their own candles to light, Which the girls placed outside before winding down for bed. That basket in front […]
Entering May’s Flower Moon Cycle
Tonight we enter the three night full moon cycle in May. It is known as the Flower Moon, and gets that name from the Algonquin Native American people, from their observation that flowers are blooming across their land. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/may-2024-full-moon-rises-this-week-why-is-it-called-the-flower-moon/ar-BB1mNOaQ?ocid=BingNewsSerp While the actual apex occurs on Thursday morning at 9:53 a.m. ET, as the opening photo […]
Karens Suck – Done With Nextdoor
Woke up and fed Claire & Honey under an overcast sky while my Keurig coffee was brewing and then sat down and went through my social media to see if anything triggered a subject for this morning’s blog. Today’s trigger pissed me off. Now I’ve been on Nextdoor for quite a few years. I don’t […]
A Busy Day
Yesterday was one of those continuously busy days where I spent a lot of time outdoors doing my weekend chores. V&B (the basis for bonnie and t from The Claire Saga) stopped by to drop off even more art supplies and educational books for the grans – the education of whom they are very proprietary […]
A Day Out With The Grans
Took the grans out for breakfast at The Village Inn to free up their dad for some work related matters and then stopped in Loveland for a town wide car show. All of old town was filled with vintage muscle cars without computer chips that reminded me of my youth, some older versions that were […]