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I just got a new photo editing program. Powerful program it is. Yes, very powerful. More images will be up later.

Daylilies in my garden

First photos uploaded...

These first images are my favorite daylilies. I took them from my neighbor's garden in Columbus, Ohio. If anyone knows what type these are, please tell me. I haveyet to find them in any books.



This flower (above) is what was in my garden when I moved in.

Birthday Wishes

Several years ago people started to send e-cards for birthdays. The first few were novel. I would print them out and put them on my dining room table with the rest of my birthday cards. I remember my first card. It was from my grade school friend, Rachel on my birthday in 2001. I thought it was the absolute coolest thing.

I started looking into e-cards and I decided it was the most awesome thing around. I scheduled for e-cards to be sent to my family on all the obscure holidays such as "Sneak Zucchini On Your Neighbor's Porch Night." It was fun. Did I already use the word novel? I still did my best to send a card or call on my friends' birthdays.

Fast forward a few years. Birthday cards that were mailed got fewer and fewer. The ratio of e-cards to cards was about 1:1. My dining table still had some cards but no wear near what they had been years before. I no longer printed the e-cards because they all had animation and printing them just looked stupid. They could not be folded and stood up on the table. E-cards started to get old and stale.

E-cards are rarely received now. All birthday wishes on on my Wall on my Facebook page. Yes, even in the heyday of cards, I never got over 100 birthday wishes. It was nice that so many people took a moment out of their day to write on my wall "happy birthday" or some other saying of the sort. There is still just something about a birthday card.

My husband and I have birthdays that are four days apart so most of our friends used to send our cards on the same day. This year, by the week after our birthdays, we had a total of four birthday cards. Each of us got one from our Realtor and one from our insurance agent. I was a bit upset. Yes, we had just spent a week with my parents and saw my grandmother, so I kind of understand. But there is just something about opening the mailbox and seeing an envelope with your name on it, written in ink by a real hand. You see the stamp and look at the return address label. You know it is a birthday card. And you just have a little bit of excitement. Will it be funny? Will it be sappy? Will it make me cry or laugh or just smile? Or, will there be a gift inside? Photos? Money? Who cares. Someone actually sent me a card!! That means, they either went to the store specifically to buy me a card or they went through their stack of cards and chose one for me. They signed their name, they licked the envelope, they stuck the stamp and they sent it with the intention of me receiving it on or before my birthday. Man, that takes some forethought.





TBC....

What did we celebrate yesterday?

My husband says to "let this go" but I am just over tired and I need to vent about this topic. Yesterday was July 4. Often times, it is referred to as The Fourth of July and people say "Happy Fourth of July!" Maybe it is because July 4 is my birthday, but it always has annoyed me when people say Happy Fourth of July. I mean, come on, we are not celebrating the fact that it is the fourth day of the seventh month of the year, we are celebrating the Birthday of our country, Independence Day. Independence Day is day commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain.

We don't say Merry Twenty-fifth of December, do we?

Neh Ohgert!

So, we are here on vacation with family. I have a few moments. Learning to speak Toddler has been quite an adventure. My parents seem to think that my daughter has a speech problem b/c they cannot understand her. Of course, they cannot understand Elmo, so I am not putting too much weight on their incomprehension. But some of the really cute things that I have had to translate on this trip are the following...

Neh Dragons: Daughter One is really into dragons and dinosaurs. My DH has told her that all reptiles are dragons. When the movies (she is addicted) are over, she starts asking for "neh dragons." Neh means More

Ohgert is Yogurt
Dia is Dora --as in Dora the Explorer DD1 loves the little Dora yogurts that have 1/2 less sugar than the normal kids' yogurts.
Ca Daddy Come here Daddy. Usually, this includes a pulling of a single digit until it is just about to dislocate and you have almost no choice but to follow her and join her in whatever toddler activity she doing.
Neh Circle is Ring Around The Rosie
Trade? When the baby has a toy that DD1 wants, she brings a toy to her and says trade
Share When she has nothing to trade, she says Share and does the ASL sign for share.
No Baby DD1 is very concerned on what goes into the baby's mouth. Whenever baby has something that DD1 has been told not to suck on, she yells NO BABY NO!!!
Boo Boo (fill in blank) This is a pretty simple one that I am surprised that my folks did not understand... Boo boo head means "I have a headache" Boo boo knee -- I have hurt my knee.
It is often followed with Kiss... So, we are instructed to kiss that boo boo. We have adapted the boo boo to be Boo Boo Lips I started this when she would not give me a kiss b/c she was having a tantrum. When I told her my lips hurt, she stopped and kissed my lips. Now she uses Boo Boo Lips for a kiss often. LOVE IT!


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