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 ORIGINAL

Flower Friday with Dory and St. Pat's Day

Happy 

Saint Patrick's Day..

My green Irish eyes are smiling...really.

You know  how you can tell?

Small pupils and ears are erect and...you can't hear me but I'm purring

Above the bed where I rest is a cross stitching mom did called

AN IRISH BLESSING

It is a favorite of Mom's

In case you can't read it...Mom typed it for you.

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields 
and until we meet again, 
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

I think this is a very nice place to nap and mediate

We thank Dory Princess of Posies for hosting....

Today we have a collage of blooms here and there at Manor Madi as of 3/7/17

1.Magnolia Madi she blooms and thrives inside she requires regular feeding and watering!!

2.First Dogwood blooms of 2017 in MARCH, normal blooming is April

3.Hairless lady pot now has a Snake plant 'do'

4 and 4a. bed of Periwinkle

5. Daffodils are coming up everywhere and sometimes in surprise places

6. Camellia blooming in the front, last month we showed you the back and we still have buds 

7. Red Bud in bloom

7a. Once the flowers fall off the limbs will be covered in heart shaped leaves.  This tree has been

a happy surprise.  WE did not plant it.  Now it is about 15' tall.

Finally our pansies which we have renamed

The little Pansies that Could

They were planted in early fall 2016

Even after the ice storm in January followed by 3 days of not above 20 degrees

and nights in the single digits

They keep on blooming.  They obviously like cold better than hot.

After several very hot weeks in February they got a bit weary but

Dad nursed them they made another come back.

This is probably this last good photo of pansies until fall.

Thoroughly Poetic and Thankful Thursday

 Today we join

Angel Sammy and brudder Teddy

Two SPOILED CAT 

at Sammy's Poetry Corner

Today's poetry is brought to you by the letter

N

NOW....

 that I'm in my prime

I find it is time 

to go way back there to two thousand and nine.

When an ordinary kitty

and her crazed mom found a 

home in Blogville. 

A speck of knowledge on how to blog we had not.

We had gumption we had spunk

Into your lives we ran a muck.

The days are fun, friends abundant and

oh the talent we have found...

 NOW

we can say YAY we are glad we stayed.

Step kitty Madi by Crazed Mom
Mosaic Madi by Auntie Mona
Quilted Madi by Auntie Karen

We join Brian on Thankful Thursday for each of you and the joy we
find while we run a muck

WHISPERING WEDNESDAY

Tuesday Tales from My Past: Working

Title:  That is not a water fountain

My career working at North Carolina State University started in

1969 in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.  I worked there until our daughter was born

in August of 1971.  At that time I applied for a 6 month maternity leave that turned into

5 years.  When she started kindergarten in 1976, I started looking for part time work.

I was pretty proud of how our daughter had turned out over the 5 years I was at home.

So as I began applying for part time jobs, imagine my surprise when I was repeatedly asked

what I had been doing for 5 years.  When I told them the reply was, "is that all"!.  I can hear you all saying WHAT!?  Well back then they could ask that.  Anyway, I found part time work and eventually full time work in private industry for 10 years. I always had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to go back to work at N. C. State University.

I decided if I was going to do it I better do it before I turned 40 in 1989. So I applied at NCSU and was called for an interview in the Chemistry Department in Inorganic and Organic Chemistry.  I'm happy to say I was offered the Chemistry job.  My first day was December 1, 1988, very early 7:30 am, I took my coffee pot to the water fountain to fill it up. When I turned the fountain on, evidently it triggered an alarm the labs.  About 5 students came running out of labs. They were all offering to HELP me I asked why. Then it was explained. It was not a water fountain it was an eye wash fountain used for quick wash in case of an accident. Here is a current day example.  However,  way back in 1988 they really did resemble water fountains.  As I recall the one I tried to use was porcelain not stainless steel.

 Granted it was a funny looking fountain and the place where the water came out had a funky eye shaped thingie on it.  LOL  We all got a great laugh out of it and I quickly met 5 of my new favorite grad students. There were some quite unusual odors in the organic lab. One in particularly smelled like tomato vines. Exactly how your hand smells when you pick fresh tomatoes. Anytime I came home with that odor on my clothes our first cat would run to the farthest corner of the house. Crazy fun times.  I was in Chemistry for ~5 years
then I transferred to Physics in 1992.

Ode to My Water Fountain 

Oh water fountain how I do love you...

Your water glistens in the night even when there is no light,

Your pump sends sweet, fresh water down to the bowl much to my delight...

Your water trickles, ripples and bubbles

enticing my inner beast...

Making me dream of lovely places to feast.

Oh water fountain thank you for service to me through out the day and night.

This is for mom just in case she needs a reminder of what a water fountain looks like