Awww Monday all about Red

Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus 

Thank you

   

We had some delicious home grown tomatoes we used on a  delicious recipe

 from favorite  Sissy and BIL of angel Madi

Toasted crusty sourdough with small Mozzarella cheeseballs, added tomatoes sprinkle with Balsamic vinegar and olive oil, salt and pepper with fresh basil on top.  OMCs was it yummy and easy!!!

I was very happy Mr. Cardinal posed for me and OMB(irds) he even showed 2 sides.

Serene Sunday drive thru Country Club Estates

 

Saturday Symmetry

Entrance to the women's locker room at Healthtrax

 

Nature, Final Feature and Feline Freaky Friday

   Nature Friday host LLB Gang  

Recently my neighbor sent this picture via text with this message:

"No one will be seeing birds at their bird feeders today"

What a great photo capture of Mr. Hawk she snapped catching his beak as he was ...Squawking lunch time

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The thing I enjoyed most about working at NC State University,

was all the wonderful people I met. It was my pleasure to be the first person 

our international group members met.  Each and every visitor arrived full of excitement for their visit. with us.  My correspondence with them started at least a year before their arrival date as I arranged for their H1B visas.

 By the time they arrived we had formed quite a bond. 

I will be sharing a few of these short stories about my favorite international visitors on Final Feature Friday.

1.  First up is Koichi, Japanese Post Doctoral fellow.

Koichi and his wife Mana  were a delight.  Both spoke excellent English...but for some reason they were intent on learning my Southern accent...not sure if they learned the accent but they surely master understanding it. Just a month short of the first year of his two year post doc,  I learned Mana was expecting their first child.  Of course needed an OB/GYN.  I gave them several names of practices. Happy to say she had a healthy pregnancy. Mana delivered a precious Baby boy. The proud parents wanted their son to have a name that was associated with his birth state. They loved Raleigh area and coastal North Carolina, in particular Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills, NC. Which is where, on December 17, 1903,  Orville and Wilbur Wright had the first successful flight of powered controlled and sustained heavier than air...air craft. 

Koichi shared four names they were considering as the middle name of their son. (Sorry I cannot remember their son's first name).

Wake (the county where Raleigh is located) Orville, Wilbur or Wright.

They decided on Wake.  I often wondered how many times they proudly told their son about the significance of his middle name. 

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FREAKY FRIDAY July 2011

MOM WE HAVE A PROBLEM......

 SOMEONE LEFT THEIR HAND

ON YOUR COUNTER!!

Apologies for late post for NF, FFF and Feline Friday I set post for 12:10 pm not 12:00 am

Thoroughly Poetic Thursday #273

Thankful Thursday hosted

We are very very very thankful for ELECTRICITY...
We had a monster storm Tuesday evening 7/28/26
at 9:30 our power went out...it was not restored til 3:30 am 7/29/26.
The interior of my refrigerate was 48 degrees F.  Any temperature above 40 for longer that 3 hours means food had to be discarded.  Luckily, I had not bought the week's groceries.  I estimate I discarded about $50 to $60.

  Today we join

Angel Sammy and brudder Teddy

Two SPOILED CAT 

at Sammy's Poetry Corner

Here is our fun photo challenge

I saw this photo as a first meet and greet

CURIOUS ABOUT EACH OTHER

OH SO NERVIOUS

UNIQUE

PLAYFUL

LEARNING 

EYE CONTACT IS HARD

SUPPORTIVE