Healed Up and Headed to Work
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Posted:Jan 11, 2012 4:51 am
Last Updated:Jan 14, 2012 5:11 pm
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A 72 year old Kazakh Hunter in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Photographer: Tsolmon Naidandorj
Feeling better and headed to drive cars. Enjoy your day!
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Hehehehe....
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Posted:Jan 8, 2012 5:38 am
Last Updated:Jan 11, 2012 4:47 am
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Grizzly. Bear Lodge, Canada. Photographer: Jean Frederic Speth
Road Trip!!
See ya'll later!
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Imma 'bout to whine up in here.
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Posted:Jan 6, 2012 5:24 am
Last Updated:Mar 4, 2012 12:48 pm
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Lynx, Denali National Park, Alaska. Photographer: Jimmy Tohill
Doesn't he look thoroughly unimpressed with having his photo taken?
Because I am a dumb ass.
The birds haven't been coming to the feeders as often as I would like, so I decided to go scatter some seed on the ground, to see if it will catch their eye and draw them in.
I picked up the 40lb bag of seed, marched my happy ass out into the back yard and I was scattering handfuls around on the ground in a few places.
The underwire in my bra decided that would be the appropriate time to break in half and re-pierce my nipple via the bottom of my tit.
OUCH DAMMIT! It seemed an awfully long trek back into the house to remove it properly with a quarter inch of the wire stabbing into some of the most tender bits I got, so I sat the bag of seed down and removed my bra beneath my shirt in the yard by pulling my hands through the sleeves of my sweatshirt.
Mission accomplished and not much bleeding, so threw my bra over my shoulder and I picked up the seed bag and headed to the backdoor.
I was two steps up, carrying the bird seed in my right hand and still trying to get my left hand through the sleeve of my shirt by raising my hand over my head and shaking it around when suddenly I came to know the meaning of pain. I felt the Trapezius muscle catch fire and rip as I pulled it out of place. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry at that point, so settled for a round of cursing that could have charred wood it was so bad. I am really happy the neighbors were all at work. I might have scared them.
So this morning, I am sitting here with my right armed tucked very closely to me as I type, in a rather pissy mood.
I don't like having to nursemaid my body all the time. I despise the level of inactivity that my body forces on me. I hate the weight gain, I hate being forced to sit still and let this shit heal. If this were a once in a while thing, I could tolerate it a lot better, but I do shit like this about once a month or so. I pull a muscle, or I bend and rip something lose in my back.
The absolute worst part is when the pain eases and I get lost in whatever I am doing, forget about it and then reach for something or move in a way that reminds me it is there.
I gives a fuck how bad it hurts, I am still going hiking today. The Bald Eagles are nesting along the Kansas River and I am going to go try to get some photos. I am not about to waste a 60+ degree day and some quality camera therapy just because my body has decided it wants to be uncooperative.
Wish me luck!
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Seeking Joy
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Posted:Jan 5, 2012 6:59 am
Last Updated:Jan 8, 2012 5:39 am
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Japan-The Blue Pond Photographer: Kent Shiraishi
Can't you just feel the calm of this place when you look at this photo?
You know, I had this long, thought-out blog I was going to post. Really I did.
But it is already 40 here, by the time my battery finishes charging and I get a shower, its gonna be at least five or ten degrees warmer because the sun has finally broke the horizon and there is not a single cloud in the sky, just those artificial ones that the planes keep making. Even those aren't holding up against old sol this morning.
I hope everyone finds something beautiful about life today. I am off to seek the same.
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Catch a Falling Star
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Posted:Jan 4, 2012 6:10 am
Last Updated:Jan 8, 2012 5:41 am
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Italian Countryside. Photographer: unknown
I got up at 4am this morning to take in the Quadrantid meteor shower. The peak was around 2am here, but I am not so enamored of the sight that I was willing to go out and stand in the cold to watch them at that early hour. Even so, the sight was amazing. I made wishes on the dozen or so that I saw. Now lets see if any of them come true.
One of my most cherished memories of childhood is of being awakened by my mother to go outside and view the Leonids. I was probably six years old at the time. She woke me in the middle of the night, and we slipped outside with warm blankets and pillows and laid on the hood of the Galaxy 500 that my father drove for work. I don't remember what we talked about so much as I remember the feeling of hope and contentment I got from being allowed to spend time with my mother there in the quiet pre-dawn hours. It seemed as if the sky were alive. Every time I see a falling star, I recall that night and all the hopes and wishes I made on those stars. And though it has taken years, many of the wishes I made that night came to pass. It may seem a tad childish, but making wishes causes no harm to anyone and it gives me a bit of hope in this sad world I find myself living in.
Accentuate the positive.
It is gonna be another sunny lovely day here and I think I might just go outside and do a bit of yard work for a while once the sun is up.
Have a beautiful day bloggers!
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Old Man Winter...
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Posted:Jan 2, 2012 8:12 pm
Last Updated:Jan 6, 2012 6:27 am
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Photographer Anita Erdmann
...Seems to have gone on vacation here. The weather forecast for Kansas City for the upcoming weekend calls for cloudless blue skies and temps in the lower sixties.
Let me introduce you to my special brand of crazy now.
I HATE snow, I hate cold weather, I start getting disgusted in October and by this time of the year I am usually struck with a raging dose of cabin fever.
But today, I want it to snow. It just feels so strange to me that I am out running about in light sweatshirts and still wearing my sandals, that I am actually wanting to see snow.
We went out for two of our 'let's just drive whatever direction our eyes take us' drives. I managed to get some wonderful photos of deer, and even a couple of halfway decent bird shots. I found a whole flock of Cedar Waxwings and a very cooperative sparrow hawk. The sun felt so good, even filtered through the window of the truck, it was warm and toasty.
I know some of you guys are getting snowed upon, and I hear that Florida is freezing right now.
So, how's the weather at your place?
Because I really REALLY don't have one thing to blog about, and I am curious to know if the Midwest is the only place where the weather seems to be very unusual.
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My Year in Review
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Posted:Dec 31, 2011 7:12 am
Last Updated:Aug 15, 2013 11:36 pm
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Doubtful Sound at Sunrise-New Zealand- Photographer: Mark Hong
As I sit here looking back over the past year all I can say is that it has been blessed.
I was blessed to travel to new places, blessed to have seen wondrous beautiful things, blessed to have finally spent one entire year that was full of love and laughter, without the fear of finding myself once again homeless. I have been blessed to have made many new friends; I have been blessed with beautiful healthy families that, while flawed as we all are, are perfectly beautiful to me. It has been one of the finest years of my life.
I could sit here and complain long and loud about my health, about the lack of employment, about the lack of health care. But since I am the person I am, I choose not to dwell on such things. Most of these things will remedy themselves in time anyways and there is little to nothing at all I can do to change that which has already been set in motion.
I think, at least in my part of the world, that human beings are their own worst enemies. We sit and fret ourselves into an abysmal state over things that have only a transitory influence in our lives. We let keeping up with the Jones' distract our attention from all the good we have been blessed with. We allow he said-she said drama destroy our happiness. We allow dreams of revenge and hatred to eat us alive from the inside out, while failing to see that for every hater we have in our lives we have at least one real friend who is always there for us.
I look at people in other places, people who are truly starving, people who are suffering the ravages of war, famine, and drought. I read stories of people who have become slaves to drugs, alcohol, and other addictions. I see news reports of women and sold into slavery, beaten, and abused; and I realize that my life has been truly blessed.
I have had my hard times, I have suffered losses but all in all, my life has been blessed. So this past year I chose to be grateful for all the wonder and good that I have known through my lifetime. Since making this choice, I have been happier and more at peace than I have ever been in my whole life.
Even in those times I was homeless, I never went hungry, I always had a friend with a shower and a hot meal, and my stalwart little mutts have given me companionship and love.
My health, meh, it's a roller coaster ride. I have good days and I have bad days, but even on the bad days, if I look for it I find something good, something to be happy about.
My resolution last year was to make these choices. I can say that while once in a while life snuck up and bit me in the ass, overall I stuck to that resolution. It was a good choice on my part.
So as I enter into this coming year, my only resolution is going to be to continue on this same course. To try to give happiness to those whom I can, to try to be a friend to any who seek to be my friend, and to love those who love me with all I am.
So to all who read this, I hope this coming year finds you in the best of health, surrounded by love, housed, fed and warm with eyes full of wonder at the beauty of the world.
Happy New Year, Ya’ll. 
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Something is Missing
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Posted:Dec 30, 2011 5:55 am
Last Updated:Dec 31, 2011 5:59 am
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Eagle Owl-Lingfield, Surrey, UK. Photographer: Mark Bridger
Yesterday was a beautiful day, weather-wise at least. Me being me, I took full advantage of the 60 degree temps and headed out to my favorite local hiking spot with the resident and my camera.
Last week while on a rambling drive through the countryside, I managed to snag photos of two owls, a Barred Owl and a Barn Owl. I thought it a bit odd seeing them out long before dusk, so when I got to my hiking spot, I headed to the back side of the conservation area where the hiking paths are located in hopes of seeing the Barred Owl I shot photos of this past spring. This entailed leaving the pathways and heading into the brush and undergrowth of the forest. Not a hard task for me, I have been mucking about in the woods since I learned how to walk. The resident however...well let's just say she provided me with endless entertainment. You can take the girl out of the city, but you really have to work at it to take the city out of the girl. Standing a whopping 4'10", she got her butt kicked by a lot of the undergrowth.
Grasshopper has a ways to go before she is ready to venture out into the woods alone.
The search for the owl was fruitless, though I did manage to find some pin feathers she had groomed from herself under the tree she was nested in.
The entire time we were hiking however, it was strangely quiet. It took a bit before I realized what was missing. I saw fewer than 2 dozen song birds, and the quiet I noticed was the lack of their singing and calling.
I am sure that the fact that small game season is in full swing as well as some limited waterfowl hunting has a bit to do with it. But there is just something so wrong about going into woods that are normally teeming with Jays, Starlings, Cardinals, Finches, and other small birds, and realizing the huge lack of their presence; it is unsettling to me.
Perhaps American birds have become as lazy as we are, preferring to leave their nests in the forests to come into the city and dine easily on the thousands of bird feeders they find here.
I can only hope that is why they are missing.
Headed to see the new Grand baby today! Have a wonderful day, ye merry bloggers!
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And slowly
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Posted:Dec 29, 2011 7:41 am
Last Updated:Dec 31, 2011 5:18 am
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I am getting back into the swing of things here. Lots of reading to catch up on, lots of comments to make.
BUT....
It is going to be 60+ degrees here today.
Time to put on my hiking boots, charge up the camera, and head out to see whats happening in my world.
Kenya, White Pelicans
Photography by Todd Gustafason
I dream of traveling to this place some day. 
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Watch this Spot
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Posted:Dec 28, 2011 10:54 am
Last Updated:Jul 15, 2017 8:00 am
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Time for an overhaul. An overhaul into what? Hell if I know...but once I am past these infernal holidays, I might toss out a word or two.
Right now, I have plenty of reading to catch up on.
The images I will be using on my posts are not mine, I won't post any more of my photos here, frankly I don't trust these people with them. When I know the name of the photographer, I will share it with you.
(No worries though, I have a good eye for great photos, so it won't be too boring I hope. )
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A beginning...
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Posted:Jul 9, 2008 5:26 pm
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2017 9:09 pm
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It's my first time blogging here. Not quite sure where to start, but as anyone who knows me can attest, I am rarely at a loss for words.
I suppose an introduction for those who don't might be the proper course of action.
I am 45, single now. Not sure where I stand on a committed relationship at this point, at times it has it's allure, but most of the time, I rather cherish my freedom. I am not good at relationships I don't think. I can't seem to find someone who doesn't want a phenomenal amount of changing out of me. And I just don't see that happening.
(Unless someone with Oprah's money comes along. money can't by happiness, but it makes being miserable much more comfortable....and no, I am not remotely serious about this statement.)
I like to joke and a lot. I tend to have a rather dry sense of humor for the most part. I think that reality and day to day life has more than its' fair share of drama and pain. Why on earth would anyone want to add to it unnecessarily?
I work far too many hours, but work is the one thing that has never let me down. I am a workaholic, I have never had a problem with working long hours, in thankless jobs for the most part. But I have never been ashamed to say I work anywhere. With so many people who play the system in the world, to me, having a job no matter how menial it may be, is a source of pride and I feel a great sense of accomplishment at day's end.
My are grown, have lives and families and of their own. I am very proud of the fact that none of them are dependant on me, that they are productive people.
I tend to like my fellow humans from all walks of life, but seem to 'click' with people who are bluntly honest and see the beauty of life rather than life's sadness. Every coin has two sides, and its up to an individual what they see in it.
And Sex.....wow...what a wonderous thing. Sex is probably the most fun any two (or more) people can have.
I am not going to pretend that sex is anything more than a physical act for me. Sex does not equate love. It can enhance love, and in some cases even lead to love. But for the most part sex is a natural desire. We were meant to enjoy it, to relish in it, to desire it. I see so many people who have turned something that should be the best part of life into a bitter bone of contention, something to be ashamed of, something to keep hidden. I am just deeply grateful that I am not one of that mind-set. I would not trade my adventures for all the gold in the world.
Someday I will be old, and the only excitement that will be left to me will be my memories.
And you can bet, when that day arrives, I will be the quiet old lady in the corner with they mysterious smile on my face at the Shady Acres Home for the Aged and Deranged.
And now for the warning. I am laid back, I don't get excited about stupid petty little things, I don't judge. Those are pointless and negative emotions and attitudes. I have better things to do with my time...BUT...
The things I write in my blogs are MY OPINIONS. I am not telling ANYONE they have to think, see, believe or do as I do. They are written as a way for people to get to know WHO I AM, before they bother sending me an email. In order for sex to be worthwhile at all, there has to be a mental connection for me. I have to actually LIKE someone before I drop my panties and hop into the sack with them. ( I mean seriously, has anyone EVER thought " Gee, you are such an a**hole, I would really like to f**k you"? ).
Therefore, before I get ten thousand emails detailing to me how wrong, how horrible, how mental I am, be warned that my replies to such things are NEVER polite, and I have been known to make such emails and my replies to them as public as I possibly can. If you want to show your ass to me in an anonymous email..trust that I will find out a way to show your true nature to the rest of the world as well.
In other words, I will be respectful and play nice only if I am extended the same courtsey.
Blessed Be!!
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