Another knife finished....

Roger finished another knife....this one will be sent to a young man that is in the coast guard...up in Alaska. He is the son-in-law of a real good friend.
I really need to make an on-line album of all his knives...I have one started but I just don't like the way it works. So, I quit adding to it.
I have not sat and made a list of how many he has made, but it is quite a few. The knife has been finished a few day, but the sheath was made yesterday. He has had a cold this past week that was one of the worst he ever had. He not only didn't have any energy, he felt horrible. But tonight he seems like he might really be on the mend.
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It has been a loooonnnng week without seeing the toot. She also has a cold, but has just kept playing. I am afraid it might get worse before she gets better if Roger is anything to go by. Sarah said one morning she was singing seeeeeee maaaamaaaw, seeeeee paaaapaaaaaw over and over....and then she said today after they woke Jeremy up that she bounced around saying 'I like mamaw' and 'I like papaw" over and over...

I wasn't going to show this and it is kind of dark, not sure when it was shot--it came to me through another route...not direct from Sarah....anyway, have your sound on to hear the dragon!

She has a vivid imagination. They were at a party, and Lorelei was playing with some other kids...they went running inside, and Lorelei paused long enough to tell someone that the monsters were after them!

Wonderful architecture...

This is the door to enter the church I showed three or four days ago on here...I don't know why I didn't post it along with that photo. This is such a beautiful doorway/entryway...I am not sure what the correct term is.

I want to go back over there some time when the sun is in a better position...also, would love to be there sometime when it is in use and I could get a photo of ALL the church and the windows.
Plus there are more buildings/homes I want to photograph over there. It is a small town, but sure has some beauties in it.
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It is cold here this morn, but the sun is trying to shine a little bit. It is supposed to stay cool for the next few days, and maybe make it back up to 50ºF by next weekend. I am hoping they are wrong and it gets there a lot sooner. I cleaned off the garden the other day, but still have a lot to do in the yard.

I also need to be making some decisions about some flower choices...I have a spot planned for more flowers but haven't got a clue to what I want to plant. I would like for it to have things that bloom all through the seasons...I have stuff that blooms in the spring and summer, but nothing in the fall.

And I have been wanting to make a raised bed for strawberries...just enough for us to have fresh ones to eat. I have been looking at strawberry plants, and trying to remember what varieties I liked...not that the normal nurseries offer near all the choices we had at work, but they do offer a few. I have wanted strawberries for two or three years and just not did anything about it. Maybe this will be the year.

Bluebird of happiness

I wonder where the phrase Bluebird of happiness comes from...is it because when you see one, your day is automatically made a bit more cheerful? This one we saw on a drive a few weeks back. We often see them, but ususally don't get a chance to photograph them. And even with this one, I only got the one shot. We were stopped in a covered bridge, so I tried to get out of the car and went around behind to sneak to a place out of view, hoping I could sneak up for a closer shot, but it took off before I even got around the car.
This fellow was out at the strip pits...it teams with red-winged blackbirds in the spring....then they all leave. They are beautiful...and very vocal.

As I sit at my computer I glance down the street a couple house and watch a pair of crows...they have a nest in the tiptop of a big pine/spruce type of tree. I cannot actually see the nest, I just see them coming and going all day long. I wonder how many babies they will have, and wonder if one will get blown out during some of the storms that come through.
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My boss always told about a kid in his class that had a pet crow....he thought it was the coolest thing. The boy would take off on his bicycle and the crow would come flying from behind and land on the handlebars and ride there.....

My boss told a lot of stories. I wish I had written them down, but just never thought it would all end so suddenly. He told of the circus coming to town--this was a small northern Indiana town. The elephant got loose and went through the town. It went in either a business or home...this is me forgetting which, not my boss. Anyway, it fell through to the basement. And here I don't remember the end of the story.

My boss also told of a boy he went to school with....he was one all the kids just sort of passed over and thought was a doofus....That changed completely with one assignment. They had to memorize a poem, or famous speech or some famous work. I forget what my boss memorized...but the 'doofus' was called on and he had memorize The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and stood at the front of the class to present it.....the class was completely enthralled. It was the last class of the day, and they all wanted to stay late to hear it all...I forget how long he said they sat there. But set there they did...not making a sound.

Just so many stories like that...lunch was ALWAYS fun there...