About
Hi! Thanks for looking in! You won’t find any sanitized views here – I’m a thinker of my own thoughts, often having a unique perspective and happy to be me! I tell it like it is, as I see it, think it, feel it. I’m exactly who I seem to be, and have no hidden agendas. I love to laugh, have a quick, sharp wit and enjoy making myself and other people laugh, which I do every day!
I have four adult offspring and a great husband number three. If I’d have had a third strike, I’d take myself out of the ball game. I’m in! I’m guardian to 8 rabbits, one pony, two big miniature horses, and a neurotic Persian cat. Oops, I forgot the guinea pig. That’s okay, she never lets me forget her…
I’m a Jill of all trades, master of some, a free spirit, enjoy adventure and the outdoors. I’ll try most anything twice. My hobby list is overwhelming, even for me, sometimes. I’ve challenged myself through the years, to find out just what I’m made of! I continue to develop and grow, and marvel in the little things of life. Over time, I’ll be sharing some of my life experiences, as well as some how-to, what-for and oh-really goodies with you.
Living in the Pacific Northwest coast is a privilege and I commune with nature every day. It rains plenty – about 70″ a year and I love it. The air smells so sweet here, beach combing is a joy and the wild rivers, ancient and giant redwoods bring tears to my eyes – a deeply spiritual experience.
brecciated jasper, found locally, polished and burnished
To read me, you’ll find funny, serious, thoughtful, intelligent, genuine and generous of heart points of view. Conversely, flippancy, frivolity and levity will be the order of the day.
Soon, I’ll be writing for young children, and hope you’ll read my posts there, as well. I’ll keep you “posted!”
Finally, I’m not only thinking the words, I’m writing them for readers. Welcome! I’m happy to know you’ve been here. Please visit again, anytime!
May 27, 2012 @ 11:15:20
I just nominated your blog for the Sunshine Award. Congratulations and thanks for inspiring me every day! http://newsofthetimes.org/2012/05/27/i-won-they-do-love-me/
May 28, 2012 @ 00:33:34
I’m loving your blog already – enjoying your “I’m ready” post over a cup of coffee for breakfast and laughing along. Thanks for following 🙂
x
May 28, 2012 @ 09:04:15
Thank you so much – what a great feeling to know that someone (YOU) are sitting down, having coffee, and enjoying something I wrote! I hope it helps to start the day off right! 😀
May 28, 2012 @ 09:14:32
Then it’s a win-win! I’ll book you in for another breakfast date soon 😀
x
May 28, 2012 @ 09:23:29
You betcha! 🙂
May 28, 2012 @ 08:03:57
Also, an award for you and your lovely writings!
http://circlesunderstreetlights.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/you-are-my-sunshine/
x
May 31, 2012 @ 08:49:28
I think I forgot to let you know! I nominated you for the Readership Appreciation Award last week… http://anaturemom.com/2012/05/26/readership-appreciation-award-thank-you/ . I always enjoy reading your posts!!
May 31, 2012 @ 08:53:56
Thank you, I appreciate that. I DID see the link in one of your posts, but thought I’d wait, until you notified me. Keep on, keeping on! ( Loved the butterfly on your boy’s nose… ).
Jun 04, 2012 @ 08:16:59
Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten – I want to make my selections carefully and the post fun, again – takes a bit of creative thought to move forward. 🙂
Jun 04, 2012 @ 13:14:33
I totally understand. It usually takes me a few weeks to process these awards! And if you didn’t do anything with it, that would be perfectly OK with me. I just wanted to let you know your blog is appreciated.
Jun 04, 2012 @ 13:53:09
🙂
Jun 04, 2012 @ 07:01:34
THANKS for subscribing to my “pun-ny” photoblog and leaving a “like”! I hope I can bring you a smile (or at least a groan) every weekday!
–John R.: http://TheDailyGraff.com
Jun 04, 2012 @ 08:03:00
You’re welcome and I’ll be looking forward to it!
Jun 14, 2012 @ 21:30:53
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the follow
Jun 15, 2012 @ 07:28:22
You’re welcome. I thought I’d stay for awhile and listen to you. 🙂
Jun 15, 2012 @ 12:10:15
An award coming your way http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/accolade-a-day/
Jun 23, 2012 @ 22:06:53
That rock is a beauty!
Jun 23, 2012 @ 22:10:32
It really is beautiful. It has kind of a flat bottom, so to speak. I have so many beautiful stones I’ve picked up on the beaches here. I hope to do another post featuring the stones, rocks, fossils, bones, driftwood that I’ve picked up.
When I go out, I often choose a stone from a small group that I’ve set out on the cabinet, to carry in my pocket. 😀
Thanks for coming by and commenting; I appreciate it!
Jun 25, 2012 @ 09:09:13
How I long to visit the Pacific Northwest
Jun 25, 2012 @ 09:12:21
Tell me what you want to see, and I’ll show it to you. Dream of being here and one day, you will. Make it happen.
Jun 25, 2012 @ 09:24:31
My friend Ronnie just got back from train hopping out there, I’m sure I will end up there soon.
Jun 25, 2012 @ 09:33:57
Knock on my door, anytime.
Jun 25, 2012 @ 09:35:58
I’ve heard how friendly you people are, I will meet you one day, cheers friend.
Jul 17, 2012 @ 08:23:56
Er, yeah. I have not found people here to be any friendlier and even less so than other places. It’s been said that this is a “closed” community. Seems to me, that is an oxymoron. I have people on all sides of me, insisting that my property belongs to them. There are the deep woods rednecks, for lack of a better term, and lots of drugs here.
Meet people on a trail, and you meet like minded people. Some are a little too friendly, and some just fly by.
Perhaps your friend went through Humboldt county…
Jun 25, 2012 @ 10:06:26
Thanks for stopping by my new blog and following. It made me find yours and I am enjoying it! I love the Pacific Northwest, I visit it with my family every summer, it’s our yearly pilgrimage away from the Desert. Anyway, I really like your blog, I like your writing style. I will be stopping by often.
Jun 29, 2012 @ 14:22:17
The redwoods are incredible, If I hadn’t seen them with my own eyes I’m not sure I would have believed a tree could grow so enormous. a few years ago my husband and I packed the kids into the RV and did an extended tour through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California. The scenery was beautiful, what an experience. I cannot imagine getting to view it on a daily basis. You have a great profile and I enjoy your writing very much.
Jun 29, 2012 @ 15:26:29
I get choked up every time I read a comment in regard to the giant redwoods. Saying I’m privileged is an understatement. Being with them is quite a spiritual experience. No one can describe in words what it is to stand next to them. Even photographs fall short, REALLY short.
This morning, in my secret garden, I was pulling invasive species, making room for the natives to move in. While I did that, I uncovered a clump of native Iris and tenderly cleared around it.
There’s a nest of hummingbirds overhead and I could hear them. Incredibly, I looked up and saw a fluffy baby hummingbird being fed by Momma on a miniscule twig. I walked to get the camera, and when I returned, baby still perched but Momma didn’t return for about 40 minutes and with all my practice in focusing for a video, my battery went dead.
Thank you for reading. I really do appreciate it.
Jul 16, 2012 @ 11:05:27
It is a blessing if you can live in the free nature and are not bounded to a city or places filled with houses, streets, full of light you can’t see many stars, full of noise day in day out, because of the traffic going on all the time on the many roads and in the air.
At the continent of West Europe we must be pleased to see the Fascinating American Nature on the little screen, were there are luckily, also some good programs to find (because we have so much choice of television channels = more than 300) Though we try to hear life of nature, with the sounds of birds, which diminished in variety but became louder because they had to find partners and get over the surrounding sounds.
Internet is also the other way to get to know something from other places in the world and to be able to share treasures of this magic barrel of life.
I received the Sunshine Award! « Tessa Sheppard
Jul 02, 2012 @ 16:55:48
Jul 07, 2012 @ 22:57:55
Thanks for visited and follow my blog.
Greeting from Jogjakarta, Indonesia.. 🙂
Jul 16, 2012 @ 18:20:23
NOMINATION!!! Please copy and paste award from my site here and follow the rules to accept (it’s OK if you choose not to): http://3teensmom.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/glutton-for-recognition-30-2/
Jul 28, 2012 @ 12:37:59
I’m enjoying your blog! 🙂
Jul 28, 2012 @ 13:05:16
Great! I appreciate that! Thanks for reading and taking time to comment! Yippee!
Jul 28, 2012 @ 13:05:52
Haha no problem 🙂
Aug 10, 2012 @ 10:30:20
i can’t believe that it seemed you were complaining in/on today’s feedback on FP (amung uthur thingz) about not enuff readership or whatever. YOUR SITE AND STUFF IS (ARE) GREAT! plus you have a bunch of ‘followers’ — it’d blow my mind if my # crept up to 10. (a few days ago, whilst editing my site, i noted how my ‘followers’ diminished by one while i wuzz editing).
anyway, i visited here ’cause i detected (or so i think) a sort of lament. you’re definitely ON the Road to somewhere — and the ‘somewhere’ seems to be a happy ‘up-wardly mobile’ place. cheer, R B
Aug 10, 2012 @ 10:35:31
Hmmm.. You are correct, I am sort of lamenting… I do have followers but most checked in once and don’t ever come back.
Ah, thank you so very much for your comments. I think my problem is that I can write anything. And not being technologically up with the younger folks, I feel at a disadvantage.
Maybe I should just shut up and write, eh?
I’m coming over there to see you. 😀
Darylann
Aug 10, 2012 @ 13:12:37
you came
you saw
you were perhaps a little horrified?
it’s like an auto axident …
some people can’t help but stare …
Aug 10, 2012 @ 13:44:36
Ha ha ha ha!! 🙂 No, it was fun and really different!! ;D especially the pink. (mauve)
Aug 21, 2012 @ 15:08:54
thanx w you (& another) i berleave i’ve sufficiently unmauved the thing.
Aug 13, 2012 @ 09:13:51
Hey there! thank you for stopping by my travel/photo blog, and liking it to decide to follow! 😮 And coincidently, you’re follower #700… Nothing super special, but it’s a pretty cool number, right? And I do appreciate the interest! Keep up with the good work, and hope you enjoy your readings! Take care, Raquel, from 3rdculturechildren.
Aug 20, 2012 @ 17:47:31
Nice blog, I happened upon your blog when you commented on another blog. I came here because the other person mentioned something about barter-I want to see what you wrote, as we do some bartering in our business.
I have four blogs on Word Press. The one that is somewhat generic is http://www.muchadoaboutmanythings.wordpress.com. Maybe one day I’ll get pictures from our trip to Maui on my blog.
Aug 20, 2012 @ 21:18:09
The blog post you’re looking for is here – https://seapunk2.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/two-pair-of-shoelaces-for-a-song/
Aug 23, 2012 @ 10:44:32
Thanks for sending me the link to your post on bartering. I checked it out.
Aug 23, 2012 @ 10:50:26
I’ll reply to your direct comment on bartering. At the moment, I’m writing a post on quilting, and I mention a trade of a quilt for a horse. 😀
Aug 24, 2012 @ 08:16:47
Reading this makes me suspect that we’re both wired the same way! I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Lisa/z
Aug 24, 2012 @ 08:35:10
Okay, now you’re making me come over there! 🙂
Aug 24, 2012 @ 10:14:05
Ha! I see that you’ve made the journey. Thanks for the chuckle! Z
Sep 29, 2012 @ 14:06:42
Haha, your writing style “seems” similar to mine..but maybe I’m just flattering myself 🙂
Sep 29, 2012 @ 15:36:26
I’ll check you out and comment! Fun! 😀
Sep 29, 2012 @ 20:55:44
I visited here because of your amazingly clever post on Freshly Pressed, featured on Freshly Pressed (congratulations!) but was also pleasantly surprised to read such an interesting and complex “About” page. I was deeply touched by your comments about the redwoods; I visited Muir Woods many years ago for too short of a time, and even that brief visit left a deep impression. I look forward to returning and exploring more posts.
Sep 29, 2012 @ 21:02:27
Thank you for your thoughtful and real comment. I appreciate your visit and that you looked a little deeper. It’s a wonderful place, and I really do feel privileged to be here. I have “The Natural World” as a category for some of my posts, and I think you’ll enjoy them. Do let me know! Thanks again. Darylann
Sep 29, 2012 @ 21:30:33
Darylann, thanks for the tip, I just spent a delightful time exploring your extraordinary natural world. What a beautiful place you live in – so different from my environment, but isn’t it a wonderful world? Loved the starfish post! Thanks for the follow as well; I look forward to visiting your blog on a regular basis 🙂
Sep 29, 2012 @ 21:36:17
Indeed. See you soon!
Nov 15, 2012 @ 07:39:55
Wonderful Blog! I’ve nominated you for the One Lovely Blog award. http://bookpeeps.org/2012/11/15/the-one-lovely-blog-award-and-the-beautiful-blogger-award/
Nov 16, 2012 @ 09:14:06
Thank you for nominating me. I truly appreciate it. Now if I can find a clever way to respond…. 😀
Darylann
Nov 16, 2012 @ 09:16:52
Thank YOU so much. I truly enjoy your posts!
Best,
Patricia aka Book Peeps
Dec 10, 2012 @ 17:37:24
I love your blog and found it inspiring! 🙂 Sooo I’ve nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award, check out the details here: http://wordsthatflowlikewater.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/thank-you-the-very-inspiring-blogger-award/
Dec 23, 2012 @ 20:39:13
Hi there. Oh dear. I see Nina has just nominated you for The Inspiring Blogger Award. Well, so am I. What can I say? We’ve all got great taste. I have ignored two of the rules. I am sure you can do the same, and accept both nominations but lump us together and respond once. The price one pays for being so popular. It is my post for tomorrow (December 24) — just giving you a heads up. The rules are on my post. Of course, you’ve probably already read them, seeing as how Nina beat me to it.
Dec 24, 2012 @ 08:58:16
Thank you. Actually, I haven’t read the rules, but have had other awards, most of which I didn’t follow up on.
I worked hard at creating one acceptance post, and wanted it to be entertaining.
Bookpeeps also nominated me for the same award.
I feel so badly when I let the award nominations slip away. There have been many and I suppose I’m not so good at accepting praise.
I will do. AND, thank you for thinking of me – I really do appreciate it. (now I must get ultra creative on this)
Darylann
Jan 18, 2013 @ 12:14:06
Your very gracious response to the last post made me grin, because I have nominated you for The Liebster Blog Award. No pressure if you choose not to participate, but here’s the short link; http://wp.me/p1XDRR-aD It’s a great way to recognize the blogs I enjoy, as well as discover new ones. There are a few logistics involved, to be sure, but I’ve found it to be time well spent.
May 13, 2013 @ 09:42:58
Hello you have a great blog here…Enjoy.
Cyril
Jun 12, 2013 @ 07:08:50
Hi! I have nominated you for this Versatile Blogger Award!
Keep Blogging! ♥
http://randomlyabstract.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/on-awards/
Jul 21, 2013 @ 22:10:10
Jul 21, 2013 @ 22:53:57
Thank you very kindly.
Jul 25, 2013 @ 00:33:36
=)
Sep 26, 2013 @ 21:33:46
Very interesting to know that many lives depend on your care.
May 28, 2015 @ 15:03:27
All the best to you! 🙂