Awww Monday Puzzles

 Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus 

Thank you

   

Our daughter retired from NCSU on APRIL 30, 2026 with 32 years service.

She is slowly filling her days with fun this summer (first summer off since high school).

Her love of puzzles started at a very young age with Fisher Price wooden puzzles about 18 months old.

She has rediscovered her love of puzzles.  One of her recently finished puzzles, CATS of course.  She ordered a special board for puzzles it has a cover too keep inquisitive kitty paws from swatting pieces.

She has lined up several volunteering projects starting in the fall.

Sunday Selfie (flashback) photos taken at NC art Museum trail

The heron offered to pose for a Sunday Selfie

 

Saturday Art and Symmetry

Very pretty art in my doctor's medical practice

 

Art and Symmetry

Nature and Feline Friday

 Nature Friday host LLB Gang  

 

RETIRED ATTORNEY ERNIE IS SHARING THE NATURE FROM 

HIS BACK YARD TODAY.  HE AND MOM LANA HAVE SWEET BUNNY IN THEIR BACK YARD WHO LOVES CARROTS and APPLE cores

Click here Hostess Miss Mimi

Flashback with Angel Madi sharing a story about her Dad aka Bryan who is an artist

When Mom was 19 (~1968 aka Stone age), she worked part time in a fancy clothing store. The wooden purses were very popular. She and my Dad had just started dating. Often she mentioned to him how much she admired the purses. Well Dad started to secretly investigate the wooden purses because he wanted my Mom to have one. After careful consideration, Dad concluded that he could make one for her. He worked on it for a very long time. Finally the time came to give it to my Mom. As I've mentioned, many times Mom is a squealer and I'm pretty sure she S Q U E A L E D long and loud when she saw this beautiful wooden purse made with love and care just for her. Dad bought the unfinished purses at a hobby/art shop. He hand drew each of the butterflies on the purse, painted them in their authentic colors,

painted the edges of the purse,note the itty bitty tiny orange line in between the yellow and brown. The brown semi-circles were made by tracing 1/2 of a penny
After all the painting was complete he put several coats of lacquer on the purse to perserve the drawings and the paint. Here it is 42 years later and the purse looks nearly perfect.Mom said she was so afraid she would dent it she only used it on Sunday. It has been stored with tender love and care over the years.

If you enlarge the pictures, you might see that each butterfly has tiny jewels on its wings that sparkle. The name of each butterfly is also either above or below the drawing.

Thoroughly Poetic Thursday #272

  Today we join

Angel Sammy and brudder Teddy

Two SPOILED CAT 

at Sammy's Poetry Corner

Here is our fun photo challenge

A little cottage

We bought a cottage

nestled in the trees

It was foggy, very hard to see
The yard was full of weeds

Oh no we thought,

we will need to reseed

The realtor said no need

In the spring it will all be green

I’d say he was right

 We had no idea it had a babbling creek 

out back and a deck with RED chairs.