One Small Village

 "There you went off again without me, Lynn.  I should have a 

inferiority complex by now. But I'll just sleep it off."

"You went off on your bike again."

This small town on my bike path has little to offer in

big town living.  That is what makes it a fun place to 

visit. No hustle and bustle.

This marker indicates the high point of the rail trail between my big

little city and this small town.  It is a small incline coming and 

going, but nothing serious.

And I always enjoy seeing such lovely and well painted

murals.  This one has held up very well.  It was painted about

15 years ago.

To see all this when I start from my usual bike route, I am

going 60 miles round trip.  I try to do this at least two times

a year.  About the most these legs will do any more.

Full disclosure I took this trip and photos

before The Big Fiasco.

"Well, your legs would not get tired if you stayed home with

me where you belong.  So what if I am asleep 8 hours of

the day when you are gone."

I did get a 12 days after the wreck

and the 3 bone pieces are staying in place.

Now for more patience.

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The Big Fiasco, bee stings are better

"Lynn, how many times do I ask you not to go anywhere?  When will you listen to me!"

I know Precious.  We were having 7 whole days of

just us girls.  With me bike riding after you had breakfast,

patio time and then off to bed.

I don't want to gross anyone out, so scroll quickly by.

And I'll spare you my face!

Needless to say the concrete bike path and I

had a falling out over a crack.

My eye glasses were destroyed and my helmet

saved my face some.  The one day I decide not to

wear safety glasses.  And my Cho-Pat knee braces

Saved my knees from worse, too.

Now my left hand is a different story.  Broken hand bone.

 I knew as soon as I got up and lifted the bike something

serious was going on.  My left fore finger had shrunk 1/4 inch

and when I tried to pull on it to hopefully just have it

out of the socket, I heard and felt the crunch.

I was 100 yards from a public park bath and carry a

thick absorbent towel with me.  I was able to wash the

knees.  There was no mirror, thank goodness but had

blood running down so I washed my face.

I then had to bike 16 miles one handed back to my van.

2 hours later I was home cleaning up.  I saved the

trip to ER until the next morn.  If that was not enough

they made me an appointment for the next day to see a

"real" doctor to get the temp cast replaced with a 

"real" one!

Rock hard fiberglass for 10 weeks for a

compound break.  

All this while home alone for 5 more days, lol.

"I'll try to be sympathetic.  But you have just

messed up my schedule."

  and she hatched in the midst

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Guarding the plants

 "Lynn, I'll just sit here a bit and see if the deer come to eat your

plants."

"If they come up to the winder, I'll growl real loud.

That oughta do the trick."

Here's one eating my dogwood tree.

Second yearling.

Mom watching me watch them.

"Leg time is over and your bed time is coming up, Lynn.

So I'll sit here until I get my bedtime treat."

Precious, you do a great job looking out for the flowers.

However, those hungry deer really aren't too worried

about you growling through the glass.  And in the dark,

they can't really see you for the dark grey onesie.

I plant deer "resistant" plants, but one or more always

has to make sure they don't like what they bite off.

I find flowers lying about on the ground and short

plants after the herd goes thru.

Note to self:

Do not use Miracle Grow fertilizer on catnip.

The reason I leave it bloom is for the bumble bees,

to whom I hold no grudge. And the Gold Finch

love the seed.  But I'll pay the price in the 

Spring when I have to weed out baby plants.

I had to use the Bug Bite Thing again.  This time

to suck out juice from a deer tick. 

The tick was attached to my ankle for maybe

a few hours.  It had fattened up some. So far the

bite area looks clear,  so I am hopeful that I 

do not have Lyme Disease.  New tool and had

to use it 2 times!

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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

 "Lynn, enough already, I know I make you happy when skies are

grey.  Can anyone out there hear this caterwaulin'?  I'm back already.

"If anyone 'members,  a few weeks ago this

Pest Control pest with hands the size of baseball

mitts, pounded on the glass door and scared the

bejeebers outa me."

"I have been hiding under the bed ev-furry evening

after my many hair brushin's and my very doled out

crunchies instead of giving Lynn her 3 hours of leg time.

 Then I finally decide a couple days ago that I have 

forgotten why I am doing that and got on her legs

fur TV and book time."

"Then what does she do but call some kind of

'puter geek to come fix a problem fur her. So of

course I'm back under the bed fur days again.

Then this 'puter person comes back with a new laptop

thing a ma jig and it has Windows 11 on it.  I do not

know if it has eleven windows or not.  I went back under

the bed.  But I think I may have forgotten and forgiven

her since it has been fairly quiet again.  We did have

a short thunder boomer this week that sent me flying

off her legs, but without me clawing on the way."

Dear sweet Precious, I am so sorry that all this has occured

on your watch.  I did not want any rat poison from that 

pest control person,  I did not want a PC failure, and

I did not want a new laptop.  But humans just don't

seem to live by kitty rules.  Hopefully we will have

some peace and quiet for a long time now.

I recently drove 15 miles to bike 24 round trip.

At the end of the 12 is a fantastic botanical garden

I try to visit every summer.

I was impressed by this garden artwork and will

show a few Lego giants as a blogging friend

1/2 way around the world and down under may

enjoy.  She takes her grandson to Library Tuesday Lego day.

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Nippy Video

"Lynn, I love rolling around out here on the patio."

Precious, I am just glad I caught caught you on film.

Of course, your head is out of sight.

But when ever you see me with the camera,

you stop what ever you are doing and I don't

get the pictures I want.

"I know, Lynn, we kitties are smarter than humans.

We know how we can get your goat."

I'll do orange flowers this week.  I have 1/2 dozen of

these butterfly weed plants and on the day I took this

photo, I saw my first Monarch for the year. And she

was laying eggs every where!  Add a few more butterflies

and I don't know the plants will feed them all. These

plants are in a different flower bed and I have a mix

of plants there.

So I brought in just one of the baby caterpillars one day

after it hatched.  I'll have to pick milkweed leaves from

ditch areas to feed it as it grows.  

The flowering plants I have will

have to support all the others.

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Childrens' Garden with Bee Sting

 "Lynn, a giant must sit in that chair. Maybe from Jack and the 

Bean Stalk."

I think it probably does belong to him, Precious.

When I start my ride from closest to home and go

15 miles down to the big little city, I am within a mile

of the Children's Garden.  The above mural represents

Johnny Appleseed.

And this one is for The Secret Garden.

The plantings and the miniature buildings were

all done by students of the local vocational school. 

The garden is on the school's property.

The tiny log cabin can be entered by an adult

from the side door.  The front door is meant for

little tykes.

The rose bed and the perennials and the annuals 

the students plant and tend are just beautiful.

Complete with a tiny waterfall for a frog pond.

I usually pack my lunch and stay a while.

Sitting at a table in the gazebo. 

"Hurry home Lynn, I am most concerned you

will go up the bean stalk and fe-fi-fo-fum,

you'll be done.  That'll mean my dinner will

not be served on time."

I'll post a pink flower photo from a walk around

my home area.  It is milk week with a 

Great Spangled Fritilary Butterfly.

And for those that may remember my fat lip when I kissed

the wrong end of a bee while biking. And Precious

would have nothing to do with me and my funny face.

I had another bike incident with a bee this week.

I was wearing my wrap around glasses and helmet,

and I saw I was riding right into a black and yellow

bumble bee or maybe even the larger wood borer.

He hit my glasses and then slipped in between the

helmet and goggles and got me good! Or bad.

So, the Bug Bite Thing really really does work.

If conditions are right.  I was 100 yards from a  restroom

that has a mirror.  As being stung on the left temple could

only be seen this way.  I sucked out the stinger and the

venom fairly quickly.  and thank goodness for that

as he must have stung me in a nerve, as I got an 

immediate major headache across my forehead and

into the right temple.  Within minutes of sucking out

what I could, the pain lessened as did the headache.

Once again, I was 10 miles from my vehicle and then

the drive home!

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Out 'er In, Make up your mind

 "I can't make up my mind, Lynn.  Just leave the door open."

"I might want to jump back in and get a nibble of food."

"And if the door stays open, maybe a bug or two will

fly inside.  Then I'll have somethin' to chase later.

Or you'll get a bug bite and use your bug bitey thingy."

"Even better, the chipmunk might run into the house,

thinking it is safer in since I am out.  Then I really will

have some indoor entertainment."

Oh no, Precious, you go out or in, but I'll not have that

chippie in the house.  Talk about a disaster in the making!

Bee Balm/Monarda.  Nothing pink after this until about the

first of August, then I have 9 pink sedums.

And I do not want to think of summer going so fast.

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