Mother Nature

Yesterday...Hazel Green...Barb took this picture with her phone..behind her shop..

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Wow...no posting for a month..whats been going on ?...not much...'just been crotching hats and ?? crotching hats..

...could talk about the weather...b-o-r-e-i-n-g-...nice weather followed by very cold ...in Jan. the bulbs began to pop up through the ground...

lots of rain....

my new friend...London...
London is the daughter of Christina, the young woman who works at Barbs shop as the massage therapist..she works by appt. only and is just getting back on the job after taking her "baby" leave...I've been keeping the little one some...'bout once a week..a couple of hours...Good therapy for my soul...

Molly...
 she is now 8 months old!!! weighs about 7 lbs...and is just about at her maximum size ..I think... As feisty and loving as ever !!!...very sweet - loves to be outside when the kids are here after school on Barbs days-off..
I let her go outside early am...at dawn and at dusk...when there is little activity around...we're on about 3 acres at the end of the developement so I feel it's pretty safe for her...except for maybe, snakes and other critters.  She usually stays on the property and is ready to come back inside after 20 min or so..I hate for her to have to stay inside and she does not like being leashed...there are two small dogs that find their way back here every day...Molly is getting "fixed" this week...

my health...bah-humbug...COPD-????. Chronic, acute wheezing, coughing, weakness...I've seen pulmonary dr...heart dr... been to ER for emergency breathing treatment...steroids...I've had many tests the last couple of months.....

chemical stress test, sonograms, xrays, CTScans, breathing tests, Upper GI...all seems to be in order except for the sinus that were operated on about 20 years ago...It's no longer a cavatity but is full of benign polyps???  which causes chronic infection, etc....will find out Tuesday when I'm scheduled for sinus surgery ...again...

Fall Colors at Peete's Landing

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Making Dried Flowers

A Very Close Call

Willie Drye
for National Geographic News

Published April 28, 2011

"The monster tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa, Alabama  April 27th.  was spawned by unusual "perfect storm" conditions, experts say".
"Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia had that down to a T. It was a very, very rare day for everything to come together for this type of event," said Samaras, also a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer. (The Society owns National Geographic News.)

Wednesday, such storms spawned an outburst of a hundred or more twisters, which barreled through six states and killed at least 283 people.
The National Weather Service and state emergency officials are still tallying how many homes were destroyed when waves of tornadoes mowed through the South, killing hundreds in seven states as entire neighborhoods were wiped out in some areas.

Alabama took the hardest hit: The state said 236 people were dead at last count, and 42 of the state's 67 counties have been approved to receive disaster assistance.


The purple lines  = F 5 tornado
      red lines        = F 4 tornados
      yellow lines   = F2  tornados
      green lines       = F 1 tornados

 Hazel Green is in the upper right cornor...the F5 missed us by maybe 6-8 miles.,as the crow flies...
I took the pictures in Anderson Hills Subdivision in Harvest

The dogwoods are blooming early this year

Beside Barb's driveway

How Does Your Garden Grow

The perennials have started peeking through the warmed-up garden soil,

the resilient pansies have their heads upright and bright,

the garden has been plowed, the leaves have been raked and mulched,

I've planted about 3 dozen bulbs...tulips, daffodils, irises, ...

and the renegade  tree has been trimmed...

to allow sun to shine on my front yard and enable grass to grow...

Rain, rain go away....bring it on...

we're ready to start prettying thing up again.

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Spring has arrived at Peete's Landing

Two families of geese came very close to the house...

noisy backyard visitors