Yard Sale 2009 Some Toys Leaving

Here are just some toys departing. They were fun to look at when they were here.

Ducks Journey At Sunset

First Day of Summer Sunset

I am practicing my sunset photos. They are a challenge with my little camera I have. I still am enjoying my sunsets even if the photos don't turn out the way I totally would like them to. I still get a nice bike ride to the beach and back and get to enjoy the beauty. So nothing is lost at all. :-)

Fort Bragg California at Night

Just had a little stroll this evening and thought I would share our downtown area at night here. It was windy, but not really as cold as I thought it would be. Actually it was a welcome break from the heat we had recently. :-)

Look closely at drainage by street, smile

Click on the Photo to Enlarge - Managed to get a photo of this cute one the other day. The story behind this is I told my kids that I hoped to get some nice photos of creatures while I was out and about. So as I was riding my bike this little one walked out in front of me. I put on my brakes and they screeched and I said watch out to the little one which ran in the drainage place. I swerved my bike to across the street, luckily no cars were coming, I reached into my backpack, grabbed my camera and took this photo. :-) Nice this little one posed long enough before going on its journey down the drain somewhere.

Great Spirits

I am in great spirits today. I am focusing on all the good that is in my life. There is plenty of it. To feel more serene, I have stopped watching the news on TV. I may glance at the headlines just to get an "idea" of what is going on, but I don't watch it so much like I used to. It is a welcome break.

I am going to be happy that I am feeling in great spirits today. I think when we truly take the time to notice all the good in our lives we can feel much better about things. I remember a time I was down and out. I was hanging my head low on a bus stop bench on one of my long bus journeys across country. I guess I looked bedraggled and a man said to me, "Here is $20.00. Get yourself something to eat." I turned to him and said, "Are you serious?" and he said, "Yes, I can see you can use a little help. Just help someone else out some day is all I ask." So even in my down and out time, I got cheered up that day. I hope to keep seeing the good that there is all around me. Take care all.

Just being a nite owl

This is my just being a nite owl post. I will talk about the weather. It has been very hot lately. I really like it lots. Wonderful weather. This is probably the best time of the year to visit Fort Bragg although any time is a good time to visit here. I have been here since 1994 and I really like it here. Although, I have liked lots of places I have lived. It just seems this town is very nice and comfortable and I feel happy to be able to live here. And that does it for my nite owl post.

And Again Some More Flowers and A Woodpecker

In the tree photo if you click on it you will be able to see the woodpecker. :-)

Spring Flowers 2009 Fort Bragg, California

Picnic Here Today With Family

I had a nice day today at this peaceful place with my family. :-)

More Happy and Friendly Fort Bragg Seagulls

A couple photos of our friendly seagulls and they do look happy don't they? Smile.

Sharing Spring in Fort Bragg April 22, 2009

Great day for walking and seeing the pretty flowers and these cute birds in the second photo from the top. Click on the photos to see them closer, too. :-)

High Temperatures Today

Today is a hot one here in Fort Bragg. Usually it is cool and breezy so this is a big change. It is 73 degrees in the house now and it is after 10 pm. That is hot for here. I do like this though. Always love the warmth. Seems the older I get the more I love heat. I even wore a warmer shirt today to increase the warmth, but it did get to be too much and I had to change to a lighter weight one. I will enjoy the heat while we have it.

Glass Table Shattering Mystery

Well, I was just sitting downstairs reading and all of a sudden I heard a loud glass breaking sound upstairs. I quickly ran upstairs to see what happened. And here in these photos are the results. Our glass table just shattered to pieces. Nothing even fell on it. Seriously! So it is still a mystery as to how it happened.

Then we looked up glass shattering and found out that lots of glass tables can do this for no reason. Maybe they have a little scratch here and there and then all of a sudden they just shatter to pieces! It is so horrible. I am so glad no one got hurt, too. I never would have ever thought that would happen. It was a thick piece of tempered glass on top of this table, too. The benefit of the tempered glass had the pieces of glass not being as sharp as just regular non-tempered glass would have been.

It took me quite a long while to clean up this mess! So weird these kinds of things can happen! Anyone with little kids need to certainly not have these kinds of tables in their houses. Well, any adults for that matter as well. Better to stick with wood. I just am so glad that no one got hurt. And I got this at a yard sale of a family with little children, so I am so glad it didn't happen to them because if it would have happened around little kids they really could have gotten hurt.

Fort Bragg Sunset Photos FromThis Evening

Glass Beach area.

Another Amazing Lion Video With Man Friend

I really enjoyed listening to this news story. :-)

Thoughts On The News

I took a little news break and only read the headlines online, not delving into reading the articles or watching the news. But I watched lots of news yesterday and it all was really depressing. Those pirates taking over ships, horrible crimes done to small children, the bad economy, violence, war and that was enough for me to want to quit watching the news again!

I think it is true about what we fill our minds with. When it is filled with all this bad stuff it certainly does us no good. So hopefully I will venture into reading more positive things like starting a garden, recycling tips, ways to make the planet a better place to live and filling my mind with these things can surely be more helpful for me and for others. Because when we are agitated and upset, it does no good for those around us either.

So I will look into reading more optimistic and inspiring things. Not that I will be like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand, I can still read the headlines, but delving into the stories and reading more and more about negative and horrible things is just doing me no good, so I will focus more on the positive and good things of the world instead.

Happy Easter To All Who Celebrate It

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it and Happy Spring to everyone else. :-) Well, Happy Spring to the Happy Easter people too, LOL Take care all.

Movie: The First of May - Great Movie!

I watched this older movie on DVD the other day called "The First of May". It was so wonderful. About a little foster child and a lady in a nursing home and their adventures. What a wonderful story! Probably one of the best movies I have seen in a long while. Very heartwarming like those old Hallmark movies from years back. Here is a link to a website about it: http://www.firstofmay.com/

One Year Of Blogging For Me

Well, I started this blog one year ago. I certainly wrote lots on this blog at first and put lots of stuff here. Over the months some things have vanished as in Youtube not allowing certain music videos online any more, but at least lots of my other things have remained here. It has been a long winter it seems. I can't wait to get out more for outings like I did the other day. It was so nice to go on a long walk by the beach on our Haul Road and enjoy seeing our birds and waiting to catch a glimpse of deer in the meadows, too. So I am in a happier mood now that it is spring and summer will be coming up. I hope to make it another year as a blogger and look forward to even more of a variety of things to add to my blog. This blog is not really promoted anywhere accept perhaps by a random search at google or just stumbling across it, or perhaps I gave you the address of it, so if you find it, thanks for stopping by. And for all of you who have visited and commented, I appreciate it. :-)