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After a summer of dealing with storms flooding and and a hurricane, this winter has been delightfully mild. I keep thinking that things will change and the weather will get cold and miserable, eating up our heating oil so quickly that you can watch the gauge go down each day, but it isn’t happening.
Among the pleasant but unusual little surprises that I discovered recently was a couple of blooms on our Forsythia bush, as seen in the following picture. This is highly unusual for January where we are. The temperatures cooled down shortly after, then it warmed up again, and a couple of more blooms appeared. I do not mind this one bit and hope that we have a mild winter right on into Spring, and a much better summer than we did last year. But perhaps I am just dreaming – it is, after all, only the second week of January.
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In the previous post I talked a bit about our Norfolk Island Pine Christmas Tree, now I’d like to share an idea for you or someone you love….something to put under that tree. It’s important that you “read fast” because this is a sale and it’s going to end in just a day or 2, BUT even if you miss the sale, this is something worth looking into, and I have a feeling other sales will follow.
Sprint is having a sale on their Android™ powered EVO 4G devices, in fact you can get the HTC EVO™ 4G or EVO™ free, as well as free shipping from Sprint for those starting new service with them. If you visit the link provided, you’ll see the phones and the count down ticker, and if you miss the special, I am sure there will be other specials available since it is the holiday season.
I don’t have an Android phone myself, to tell you the truth, but do have the Android OS on my tablet and love it. It isn’t as fast as I’m sure it is with 4G as I use it with our WIFI. I can imagine it would be fantastic fun with the speed that 4G provides.
So, now you have another possible idea to put under your Christmas tree this year at a great price, and may we wish you a very blessed Christmas!
It is that time of year again, Christmas, and our Christmas Tree is once again a Norfolk Island Pine. The tree we purchased last year can be viewed at the preceding link, and in the next day or two, I’ll post a picture of our new tree, I started decorating it yesterday and will finish today. Since the tree is actually a house plant, it will live on after Christmas, so I’ll leave the decorations on a week or two into January. Then if it does well, it will be decorated for Valentines Day. The tree we purchased last year did well until April…we think that we weren’t able to provide it with enough light because we had so very much rain that being under our skylight wasn’t enough, but aren’t sure.
We purchased our latest Norfolk Island Pine on Sunday at a great price, it is about 3 feet tall plus the pot it is in, and stands on a table behind the couch. I have light weight ornaments on it, no lights though, because that would be too much weight. Instead our indoor Christmas lights surround the frame of a doorway.
I never take for granted the privilege of sight. Those who cannot see compensate by having acute senses in other areas, but I can see so can’t imagine what it would be like if I could not see the beautiful array of colors as flowers bloom in springtime and throughout the year. I could smell them, touch them, but would not be able to see them. Or how about the changing colors of fall if you live in parts of the world and United States where trees change…what if we could not see them? What would “color” mean to us?
I suppose I’d not know what I was missing and would adjust as many do, but I do have my sight and treasure the gift and want to care for it. My medical doctor told me just this week that I should have my eyes examined each year as “older” age comes not only to make sure that my glasses are correct for my eyes, but to watch for things like glaucoma. So I will go and get them checked, get my prescription and proper measurements of the lenses so that the line for bifocals, or progressive lenses in my case, is properly placed, and then will look into ordering cheap eyeglasses online at my favorite site where they manufacture their own glasses…no middleman, no fancy name brands…but pretty fancy glasses at incredibly low prices.
In fact, at the prices offered, I may get two pairs. I want to spend many more years enjoying the beauty that is around me, and caring for my eyes and vision is an essential part of that.
One thing that we are thankful for during the month of Thanksgiving is the availability of Pomegranates. They are available in the fall in our supermarket, but the prices are reduced during the month of November, and we buy a couple each week. My husband was watching “Good Eats” with Alton Brown one night and learned that the cleanest way to remove the seeds with their juicy coating was to do so under water. It is clean this way, and we then enjoy working several seeds around in our mouth to break the outer soft part and enjoy the juice, and discard the seeds. I have read, however, that the seeds are high in fiber and beneficial oils, but we have not yet gone as far as to eat them. We just finished one a little while ago and have another waiting in the fruit basket.
The red juice contains many antioxidant benefits, as do so many of the red and blue berry fruits. But we are just happy to enjoy this annual tradition of eating fresh pomegranates during the month of November and thankful for whatever benefits they may bring.
