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Scene while walking: May 28, 2013

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I’m seeing this tree (really tall bush? okay, definitely in the plant family) a lot as I walk around and I haven’t noticed it before. I have not yet completed a full year of walking intentionally around my neighborhood and where I work so I’m still running into plants that look quite different than they do other times of the year. Anyway. I like this – it reminds me of Japanese maples in that the color is right and the leaves are feathery (yes, I know not all Japanese maples fit that description. Work with me.)

So, if you know what this is, I’d like to know. Thanks in advance!

Another Actual Conversation of a Married Couple

Today my husband and I both tried to extend the holiday weekend by starting it a lunchtime. We went to the local pub and ate far-too-large cheeseburgers that tasted wonderful. I then decided I would walk home to try to make up for it (not really possible, but worth trying). When I got home this conversation happened:

him: I got your stuff at the store.

me: What stuff?

him: for the refrigerator

me: What stuff?

him: …

me: champagne?

him: yes!

me: okay – thanks. I’m going to make margaritas.

him: but I got you champagne!

me: I know, but I want a margarita.

him: I saw her.

me (quite used to conversational whiplash): her?

him: …

me: Rachel?

him: yes!

Now I really need the margarita. And possibly some ibuprofen….

That’s just nuts.

I was on a business trip for the last few days. While on the plane I was treated to a tasty bag of peanuts. I was also bored so I read it.

Nuts

This is what we have come to. The “KING NUT COMPANIES” has to warn you that a bag whose ingredients are “Peanuts Roasted in Peanut and/or Canola Oil, Salt” was, in fact:

“Produced in a facility that processes peanuts and other nuts.”

Scene while walking: May 17, 2013

Sorry for the unexpected hiatus – work intervened rather significantly in the last week. But I was still walking and I saw something I had not yet seen before! I suspect for a large number of people seeing a snake crossing the path wouldn’t be something that makes them happy, but it was for me. I like snakes. He moved into the shade under a basalt boulder as the day was quite warm. He’s about 3 feet long.

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