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"冬休みのお知らせ おばちゃんたちの冬眠の時期がやって参りました。12月20日(土)～1月7日(水)の長ぁ～い19日間ではありますがよろしくお願い致します。皆様、よいお年をお迎えください。。。 ごはん屋 いいらぁのおばちゃんたち"
Cats are so good at hibernating! :-)
Wish I could join them for the rest of the chilly season, lol!
Hi everyone. I hope you've all been well and are having a terrific start to the year!
I wanted to pop in for a bit and let you all know why I haven't been around in so long. Dad's doing okay now, but back in November he was hospitalized yet again... with another pulminary episode. I'd already had him on a low potassium diet (he only has one kidney) but now he's become sensitive to sodium as well. The upshot to that is.....eveything must be cooked 100% from scratch. That's a whole lot of cooking, lol. I make the majority of his meals on Sundays to be heated up later, but there's still breakfast and lunch, along with cleaning, laundry and grocery shopping and doctor visits(without a car these tasks can take up an awful lot of time).
Well, lol, you probably get the idea. Added to my own disabilities, I'm so beat by evening I just haven't had the energy for much more than sitting in a chair with a book.
But, I'm not leaving Flickr. I really hope to have more energy in the future when I become used to the workload and am not flaring so much. Till then, I won't be around often... but will try to visit and make comments when I can :-)
Finnegan, Dewey and Tallulah are doing well, with tons of fluffy beds and other napping places, and lots and lots of cuddles and playtime :-)
Take care everyone, I'm thinking of you all even though I may remain 'invisible' for awhile!
She's only been in the car a few times but so far, every time, it's put her right out. The same was true for me as a baby. We're going to come back to this, I'm sure, the next really bad no-sleep night she throws at us.
In South Dakota, they don't mess around about winter time. During the summer, the corn grows six feet tall here, but in the winter it's barren and lifeless, and on this day most of the world fades away into the ice fog.
professor hildeberg's hibernating antartic zoo: professor hildeberg has discovered a dozen new antartic species that can now be seen in their hibernating state as they tour in his specially designed 'thermostatic vivariums'.
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found this mirid under a log in the garden,not the best of images but glad i spotted it.
2 sets of tubes,so shows how small it was.......thanks to joe with a camera for the i.d
entrance arch to lodge grounds with Elephant Head Rock from which the lodge is named after is in the background
So...back in December of last year I snowshoed up on top of a ridge and built a snow cave. In the process of building the cave i inadvertently buried my pair of Oakley sunglasses that were given to me as a gift. For the past 5 months I've showshoed back to the same location 5 or 6 times to look for the glasses and each time I was unsuccessful. Well, in the last few weeks the weather's warmed and we've had a few strong storms pass through so today I decided to drive up and take another look.
I almost turned back twice cause the weather looked ify, but I continued on. The walk from the road to the top of the ridge took approx. half an hour and as I crested the top of the ridge I could see the sun shinning off the lenses of the glasses. I took extreme care to not wipe or try to clean the lenses until I found a pool of water from the melted snow and to my relief...no scratches. The glasses are in perfect shape after being in hibernation in the snow for the past 5 months
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I've began my hibernation. As long as I don't need to leave the house, I don't. At first I thought that I was simply enjoying the great indoors. I've never been someone who can spend all their time at home. I always need to get out for some of the day. I thought that I'm finally enjoying my house and my time with my family here. I've also been enjoying my time in my comfy pajamas. I didn't realize I had the winter blues until I got an email from one of Dyllan's teacher about his performance in class. I broke down and couldn't stop crying all afternoon. I truly needed to get it out. Also, I needed to face facts, that I really wasn't enjoying the time. I was escaping and vegging out to TV and computer games. I'm chillin' until spring. But I've been dragging myself out for fresh air and a fresh perspective.