Sunday, August 16, 2026

FOTO FRIDAY: ECHO's VOICE

 

FOTO FRIDAY: Echo arrived at my home after having spent one 100 degree week in the woods, tick-covered, without food/water. He had been shot in the head, with the bullet entering the top of his head and exiting his neck. 

The vet put him on prednisone and doxycycline to treat heartworm and a swollen jaw. A med reaction caused over a dozen welts... The guy needed quiet, some nursing, and a lot of love.


I 'd like to say Echo found his voice during his stay. 


FOTO FRIDAY shows him enjoying a movie...



and his first bark in 2 weeks. My job is done. I will miss this sweetie.

May he find the best home ever.


 

Friday, August 14, 2026

TBT: ANNUAL PICS... STUDENT & FACULTY

TBT: This week I helped someone I met in homeroom in high school celebrate their birthday and welcome a new decade. Actually, I was the student, and she was the teacher. 

my senior pic
                                 


 Here we were in the Warrior '72 annual.



She changed the side she parted her hair, but I didn't. ( but I may change it now)... LOL

Fast forward 55 years later...

'Looking forward to more get-togethers.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

MIDWEEK MUSINGS:HANGING AROUND

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: HANGING AROUND:
Sometimes we miss special moments because we are just in too much of a hurry. Guilty as charged...

Yesterday I posted a song by a young teen, Susey Wendy who knocked the socks off her 'Voice ' German speaking coaches. I had just caught this clip on a FB reel and posted it as soon as I had found the entire clip of the song. 

Yet ,when I returned to my YouTube screen, the Voice Kids Blind Auditions clip was still there and I thought, why don't I listen to the coaches' banter and see how much German I could still understand? They were praising Susey's abilities with underhanded compliments for each other when Alvaro and Susey shared a love of Norah Jones' music. What followed was actually an amazing rendition by Alvaro sitting down at the piano and the 2 singing a Don't Know Why...

How many of you caught that? 

How many times do we pass up an opportunity because we are in too much of a hurry? We just need to hang around a bit longer. And who knows what we will encounter?  It might be a different kind of duo,  a lovely conversation, a new experience, heck, a new friend...

* Here's that clip again, just hang on past the banter where they share ...  Click to 4:49 Wowser!

Don't Know Why






Tuesday, August 11, 2026

tUESDAY tUNES::: What a Difference a Day Makes!

 tUESDAY tUNES : A 14 year old Susey knocks this one out of the park on The Voice KIDS: Blind Auditions with Dinah Washington's 

What a Difference a Day Makes... INCREDIBLE



Monday, August 10, 2026

MONDAY MUSINGS: WALKING IN THE RAIN...

 MONDAY MUSINGS: Walking to see art can even get me going in a thunderstorm... Actually, the rainstorm arrived earlier than expected on the car trip heading south to Hot Springs, and while I don't ever like driving in a thunderstorm, especially on a highway it ended before our destination...

We had both looked feverishly for a legible map of the artwalk route to celebrate Hot Spring's 37th Art Walk anniversary celebration in Hot Springs. I have to admit the wet prospect probably dissuaded many but we didn't even need our umbrellas. Fortunately, the first gallery did have literature of the places to visit and there was local music besides snacks in the various galleries. 

On the 2nd floor art collective, we met several of the artists while perusing the art.  Laura, my partner in crime of the day,  purchased one of Morse Craig's bowls. Pictured on the left, Morse was kind enough to explain to all those interested how he uses a cake-like mold to retain the bowls' shape before adding resin, sometimes with crushed or whole semi-precious stones. Laura's bowl will have its new home on her dining room table inherited from her Mom.




My other favorite gallery was this unique gallery space called none other than the Blue Donut...  

                                                                   


Their display of munchies was of course, artistically arranged even if there were no blue donuts


Upon entering we were asked to choose our favorite piece of art and vote for it after looking at all the art. 




I chose the Ridge quilted art scene #10 below as it reminded me of where I used to live with the ridge in the End of the Rainbow Valley



But much to my dismay, Ms Nilholen's price was beyond my pocketbook as its tag read
NFS (not for sale), 


It still got my vote!

We didn't even have to walk in the rain to see art, and the two of us left satisfied...

Friday, August 7, 2026

FOTO FRIDAY: FASTEST VISITOR AT 4 O'CLOCKS

 

FOTO FRIDAY: You have to look quickly to see this visitor where the 4 o'clocks are strategically planted by the front door- You can smell their fragrance and see its visitors. Remember to click on the video below.



It's a hummingbird moth.


Thursday, August 6, 2026

TBT: 5 YEARS AGO

TBT: 5 years ago I moved back to where I grew up and started moving into my new house that I would have to make into my home. The AC went out that during the 3rd day of unpacking.  August, my friends, is not a chilly time of the year in Arkansas.

This is what my hallway cabinets looked like as I began unpacking and 


they would morph into La Leyenda de la Vida. 
Schatzkes of yours truly as EVERYTHING has a story.


Each shelf has a different theme of places I have lived/visited. 

But the truth is as this t-shirt attests...












 The fact is even 5 years uner my belt , I am as the tshirt proclaims just a Wisconsin girl living in an Arkansas world.