Readers, Welcome to my blog (formerly Birds, Blooms, Books, etc). I'm entering a new decade taking on the challenge of moving from Maryland after living there 46 years and learning about my new home here in New England in the Live Free or Die state - New Hampshire. Join me as a write this new chapter of my life.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

NO KINGS DAY

 Time to stand up to this wannabe king and be counted!


Find an event near you are watch one live stream.





Friday, March 27, 2026

Bird's Eye View

 A local drone photographer, William Daughtery, link, took these photos to show the progress of our library.

This photo gives quite a nice view of our house too.


In other news we are heading to No Kings Day in Lebanon, NH tomorrow.  There are at least 15 of these demonstrations in the area.  Many more than the last time.

Where will you be demonstrating your opposition to the wannabe king?



Thursday, March 26, 2026

Only one little patch


Granddaughter #1 helped me pick up sticks in the yard after we finished with school lessons today. 
Next I'll have to clean out the beds.
It was good to see shoots of daffodils I planted last fall.  They will be single blooms but will multiply through the years to make a nice display between me and the new library.





 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Memory

Just remembered this as I poured hot water over my tea leaves for my morning cup of tea. 

We were in China in 2010 visiting Sarah our youngest daughter who was teaching oral English at a Chinese university. She even had PhD students who had to take oral English.

One of the things we did with Sarah was to go tea shopping. This was an interesting experience as the young woman that helped us taste different teas that she would brew didn’t speak a word of English. Thankfully, Sarah spoke Chinese.

At one point, Sarah and the young woman couldn’t agree on the word that they were trying to understand so Sarah wrote the word on her palm. Now, of course it wasn’t the word. It was the character the Chinese character. At that the young woman said aw she understood what Sarah was trying to say. 

I have lots of tea pots, well at least three. I rarely use the one I got from China on that visit. The tea I purchased then is long gone. It was very good. I’m remembering this too because my source of buying tea leaves, Larkin tea company in Morgantown West Virginia has now closed up shop. I’ll have to find another source.

(I used dictation to write this. It’ll make it easy to post when I’m in Greece in April.)

So much for posting some pictures with this. I’m using my iPhone and trying to access the pictures. It tells me it can’t do it. I’ve done it before though. One more try.

Nope.