i would have posted yesterday, but i couldn't get on to blogger to post....
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on monday i went to the doctors to go over the results of my PFT's...apparently i do have a lung disease, most likely asthma...that, combined with dust mite allergies, will cause me to have the problems i've been having...so that explains a lot....
after that, i came home and finished my reaction paper on "wasted" and kept a close eye on the snowfall outside...
i then headed down to class and picked up swan lake from a classmate from my other class so i can watch it and write a paper on that...
class went pretty well, we talked about wasted for most of the class, and the teacher let us out 15 minutes early, which i was glad about...
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i then stopped in for a few minutes to talk to a friend who wants to set me up with a guy she knows...
i haven't made a decision yet as to wether i want to meet him or not...i probably will go through with it, because if nothing else he could end up becoming a really good friend...
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tuesday was fun...i babysat, and had a great time with the kids...the oldest one wanted to spend a lot of time cuddling and snuggling, which i absolutely loved... :-)
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wednesday was a fairly quiet day, i went to home group and had fun there...
...today (thursday) was a very, very quiet day...i stayed home and stayed in my pj's all day and did not much of anything...and it felt GREAT!!... :-)
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one good thing that happened today: i slept in, and stayed in pj's all day... :-)
(hey, i gotta have a "pj day" once in a while!!...)
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
black capped chickadee
this adorable bird is a black capped chickadee...i had about ten of them in my yard and at my feeders today...(i also noticed blue jays and either a hairy or downy woodpecker, i didn't get a good enough look at the beak to figure out which it was...)
i figured since some people suggested i do a somewhat themed blog, and since i enjoy birds and bird watching, i would try to focus one of my blog entries per week on a bird of some sort...
today's bird is obviously the black capped chickadee...these birds are absolutely marvelous...they are year round residents in the freezing, snowy winters....just how does such a small bird survive such a long cold winter?...good question....it has to do with this amazing feature they have built in by God Himself...it's called "controlled hypothermia" .... these little birds will perch after feeding and will rest or fall asleep...eventually their body temperatures drop to an almost fatal level, and they will wake up, shiver and shake and puff their feathers out and bring their body temperatures back up to a healthy, more normal temperature....then they will settle in and go back to sleep...the body temperature eventually drops again, and they wake up and start the cycle all over again...
amazing, isn't it?...
chickadees are cavity nesters, usually found in a soft, rotting tree or stump ...a female chickadee will lay and incubate 6 to 8 white eggs which are finely dotted with reddish brown spots...the incubation time is 12 to 13 days....
is there anyhing else you'd like to know about the black capped chickadee?...leave a comment, and i'll try my best to find the answer for you... :-)
happy tuesday, everyone!!
-ramona anne
one good thing that happened today: definately it was seeing all the different birds at my feeder...
Monday, October 23, 2006
don't let it snow...
yesteday as my mom and i were heading north from enfield, the route we took home led us through franconia notch...there was snow in the notch...or, rather, it had snowed sometime between friday early evening and sunday early evening...(it was raining friday when we went through the notch, heading south...)
we made some jokes about the snow, and then i said "well, as long as it doesn't snow at home..."
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we got home, unpacked, unwound some, had a quick supper and then headed to bed...(oh, when we got home we found a mouse sox had caught and snacked on and left the rest for us to see...ewww!!!....) ....
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also, it started raining (again?!?!!?!!) when we got home yesterday....oh, well, it was rain, not snow....i wasn't going to complain too much, although i will admit i was slightly wooried about the possibility of flooding, as the rivers and streams have swollen almost to the limits of their capacities...
i went to bed, knowing that there wasn't anything i could do about it anyways, and said once again "at least it isn't snow..." ...
i woke up this morning and it was still raining...but, the rain was also accompanied by large, white, heavy-looking things falling from the sky...i rubbed my eyes, thinking maybe i wasn't seeing correctly...looked out my bedroom window again, and sure enough, there was snow mixed in with the rain...
"oh, well, nothing i can do about it" i said...i got up, and dubbed around and then got ready to head to my dr's appointment...it was a follow up on my allergy and PFT tests....i have a slight lung disease, basically a mild form of asthma....the dr. gave me a perscription for singulair and told me to keep doing what i'd been doing with the saline solution and stuff like that...
well, at least now i know i'm not dying or anything... ;-)
anyways, the snow is not really collecting here, but it was in berlin, which is kind of interesting...
actually, it seems to have stopped and now it appears to have switched back over to rain, which is better, i guess, than snow...just as long as we don't get too much and it causes flooding...
anyhow...i need to go finish my homework for class tonight...
have a good day, everyone...
-ramona anne
one good thing that happened today: it stopped snowing!! yay!!...
we made some jokes about the snow, and then i said "well, as long as it doesn't snow at home..."
....
we got home, unpacked, unwound some, had a quick supper and then headed to bed...(oh, when we got home we found a mouse sox had caught and snacked on and left the rest for us to see...ewww!!!....) ....
....
also, it started raining (again?!?!!?!!) when we got home yesterday....oh, well, it was rain, not snow....i wasn't going to complain too much, although i will admit i was slightly wooried about the possibility of flooding, as the rivers and streams have swollen almost to the limits of their capacities...
i went to bed, knowing that there wasn't anything i could do about it anyways, and said once again "at least it isn't snow..." ...
i woke up this morning and it was still raining...but, the rain was also accompanied by large, white, heavy-looking things falling from the sky...i rubbed my eyes, thinking maybe i wasn't seeing correctly...looked out my bedroom window again, and sure enough, there was snow mixed in with the rain...
"oh, well, nothing i can do about it" i said...i got up, and dubbed around and then got ready to head to my dr's appointment...it was a follow up on my allergy and PFT tests....i have a slight lung disease, basically a mild form of asthma....the dr. gave me a perscription for singulair and told me to keep doing what i'd been doing with the saline solution and stuff like that...
well, at least now i know i'm not dying or anything... ;-)
anyways, the snow is not really collecting here, but it was in berlin, which is kind of interesting...
actually, it seems to have stopped and now it appears to have switched back over to rain, which is better, i guess, than snow...just as long as we don't get too much and it causes flooding...
anyhow...i need to go finish my homework for class tonight...
have a good day, everyone...
-ramona anne
one good thing that happened today: it stopped snowing!! yay!!...
Sunday, October 22, 2006
what's bruin, deer?...
yesterday, before the family gathering, my mom & i ran out to west lebanon to get some things...i stopped in at borders and spent around $80...it's not often i go in there, so i guess that wasn't really a terrible thing...
i left the store and went to the vehicle for a little while and waited for my mom...i wanted to get some film, and we were going to drive to wal-mart to get that after....well, i decided to try and get the film at the grocery store where she was to save a trip and some time....so i slip into the store and find the film right away, because i've gotten film there before...well, you could get a great deal on it with a card, and my mom had my aunt's card, so i'm trying to find her....half an hour later, i gave up and decided to just go pay for my few purchaces...turned out that we had missed each other coming in and going out of the store....
well, i get out to the car (the lady behind me had let me swipe her savings card...) and go to start the car...i hear a "click, click, click, click..." i said "mom...the battery's dead..." she said "no it's not, the car's already running...i had the keys on..."
so, i turned the keys off, pulled them out, and put them back in and tried yet again to start the car...same thing -- rapid clicking and no turning over of the engine....
i said "see, mom...i told you, the battery's dead..."
half an hour on auxillary drained the battery...
so, i make a call to the house and my aunt elaine says she'll send her brother, my uncle frank, out to rescue us...
mom & i wait for him and just as he's pulling into the lot, this gentlemen in the vehicle next to us is getting ready to leave...i asked him if he'd be willing to hold that parking spot so my uncle could park next to us to give us a boost...he was willing to do that, and i ran to catch up with my uncle (orange croc's and all...hee hee!!...) and told him where to go and things...
so the man pulled out and there was someone who i could tell wanted that parking spot, but i stood there until my uncle could get in....
so, we get the car started right away, then we drive down to springfield to get joe & joshua...we go in to see them and shasta was thrilled as anything to see me...she even tried getting in my lap...(i absolutely love that dog, for that very reason!!...) she was happy and smiling and i was so glad to have seen her... :-)
we head back to the house in enfield and we had a great time at the gathering...three of mom's cousins showed up, and i got to visit with them...and i visited with a lot of my aunts & uncles and cousins, and two of my brothers...and of course there were kids here, which was great!...
there was plenty of great food, and of course, great company...i really enjoyed myself...
....
well, it came time to bring joe & joshua home, and we turn down this one road and i'm in the middle of telling a story about a moose accident i was the first on the scene for earlier this summer...(i saw the moose, but not the vehicle that hit it, at first...turned the bend and there's an 18 wheeler pulled off to the side of the road...there's a whole story about it that i may share here soon...)
well, we get around the bend and a lone coyote was on the side of the road, and it decided to cross the road right about then...so we got to see it do that, and since we had a 6 year old in the vehicle with us, and since the coyote really only ran to the other side of the road, we decided to pull off so we could all get a better look....it was amazing, because i rarely see them...
after we dropped joe and josh off at home, we headed back here to enfield...on the way back, i saw a very large black bear, which was nice...it's the second one i've seen this year....we also saw two absolutely stunning white tailed deer....
it was certainly a treat to see those animals!....
there were no moose to be seen (i know linda would probably wonder about that!!...) but that was just fine with me...
.....
on today's agenda : have breakfast, shower, read more in "wasted"...pack the car up, go back home, finish "wasted" and write out the essay on it....
tomorrow is back to class and my normal life and routine....i'm kind of looking forward to that...
....
i had three very odd dreams last night...one that i will share -- i was somewhere in a class and we were having to share a piece of poetry we liked or something...and this girl gets up and starts reading "my name is mary magdeline...i come from palestine....please excuse these rags i'm in, i've fallen on hard times..."
and i was like "hey...it's the ballad of mary magdeline!...." and so this girl and i were talking and we got into a great discussion about folk music....it was neat...
i also had a weird dream about using a wooden-stalled toilet, which was very, very odd....oh, and also in that dream there was something going on and there was a tv show that some young kids were running and stuff...
i also had a dream about having shared something with someone in particular and she was going to give me a hug and talk to me about it...but only she wanted to take me somewhere special to talk, and we were kind of like in the top floor of this building and i guess there were like a lot of people up there, so she said "let's go somewhere quieter..." and we kept going down all these flights of stairs and we finally get to where i think we're going to talk, and then we leave the building...the door closes and locks behind us, and we realize it's really cold outside, and all or our things are still inside....
it was kind of odd....
....
anyhow...i think i'm gonna go get something for breakfast...someone is making toast with the home made bread here, and it's smelling very, very delicious!!...
....
have a happy sunday, everyone!!!
-ramona anne
i left the store and went to the vehicle for a little while and waited for my mom...i wanted to get some film, and we were going to drive to wal-mart to get that after....well, i decided to try and get the film at the grocery store where she was to save a trip and some time....so i slip into the store and find the film right away, because i've gotten film there before...well, you could get a great deal on it with a card, and my mom had my aunt's card, so i'm trying to find her....half an hour later, i gave up and decided to just go pay for my few purchaces...turned out that we had missed each other coming in and going out of the store....
well, i get out to the car (the lady behind me had let me swipe her savings card...) and go to start the car...i hear a "click, click, click, click..." i said "mom...the battery's dead..." she said "no it's not, the car's already running...i had the keys on..."
so, i turned the keys off, pulled them out, and put them back in and tried yet again to start the car...same thing -- rapid clicking and no turning over of the engine....
i said "see, mom...i told you, the battery's dead..."
half an hour on auxillary drained the battery...
so, i make a call to the house and my aunt elaine says she'll send her brother, my uncle frank, out to rescue us...
mom & i wait for him and just as he's pulling into the lot, this gentlemen in the vehicle next to us is getting ready to leave...i asked him if he'd be willing to hold that parking spot so my uncle could park next to us to give us a boost...he was willing to do that, and i ran to catch up with my uncle (orange croc's and all...hee hee!!...) and told him where to go and things...
so the man pulled out and there was someone who i could tell wanted that parking spot, but i stood there until my uncle could get in....
so, we get the car started right away, then we drive down to springfield to get joe & joshua...we go in to see them and shasta was thrilled as anything to see me...she even tried getting in my lap...(i absolutely love that dog, for that very reason!!...) she was happy and smiling and i was so glad to have seen her... :-)
we head back to the house in enfield and we had a great time at the gathering...three of mom's cousins showed up, and i got to visit with them...and i visited with a lot of my aunts & uncles and cousins, and two of my brothers...and of course there were kids here, which was great!...
there was plenty of great food, and of course, great company...i really enjoyed myself...
....
well, it came time to bring joe & joshua home, and we turn down this one road and i'm in the middle of telling a story about a moose accident i was the first on the scene for earlier this summer...(i saw the moose, but not the vehicle that hit it, at first...turned the bend and there's an 18 wheeler pulled off to the side of the road...there's a whole story about it that i may share here soon...)
well, we get around the bend and a lone coyote was on the side of the road, and it decided to cross the road right about then...so we got to see it do that, and since we had a 6 year old in the vehicle with us, and since the coyote really only ran to the other side of the road, we decided to pull off so we could all get a better look....it was amazing, because i rarely see them...
after we dropped joe and josh off at home, we headed back here to enfield...on the way back, i saw a very large black bear, which was nice...it's the second one i've seen this year....we also saw two absolutely stunning white tailed deer....
it was certainly a treat to see those animals!....
there were no moose to be seen (i know linda would probably wonder about that!!...) but that was just fine with me...
.....
on today's agenda : have breakfast, shower, read more in "wasted"...pack the car up, go back home, finish "wasted" and write out the essay on it....
tomorrow is back to class and my normal life and routine....i'm kind of looking forward to that...
....
i had three very odd dreams last night...one that i will share -- i was somewhere in a class and we were having to share a piece of poetry we liked or something...and this girl gets up and starts reading "my name is mary magdeline...i come from palestine....please excuse these rags i'm in, i've fallen on hard times..."
and i was like "hey...it's the ballad of mary magdeline!...." and so this girl and i were talking and we got into a great discussion about folk music....it was neat...
i also had a weird dream about using a wooden-stalled toilet, which was very, very odd....oh, and also in that dream there was something going on and there was a tv show that some young kids were running and stuff...
i also had a dream about having shared something with someone in particular and she was going to give me a hug and talk to me about it...but only she wanted to take me somewhere special to talk, and we were kind of like in the top floor of this building and i guess there were like a lot of people up there, so she said "let's go somewhere quieter..." and we kept going down all these flights of stairs and we finally get to where i think we're going to talk, and then we leave the building...the door closes and locks behind us, and we realize it's really cold outside, and all or our things are still inside....
it was kind of odd....
....
anyhow...i think i'm gonna go get something for breakfast...someone is making toast with the home made bread here, and it's smelling very, very delicious!!...
....
have a happy sunday, everyone!!!
-ramona anne
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