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Opinionated writer with hopes for a better future for all plus a big helping of skepticism about humanity.

• THUS CAME NEW WINDOWS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/12/2022 • ( 6 )

  

  We bought them in January and it took until today to get completed and installed. Oh my, what a difference! It’s not that they are bigger — except in the living room where the design has much narrower framing. Otherwise,… Read More ›

• WORLD SHARING AND IT’S MAY

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/10/2022 • ( 24 )

  

  SHARE YOUR WORLD 5-10-2022 I just had one of those WordPress experiences that makes me doubt my sanity, doubt their sanity, then realize that there is no sanity and I should just give up. I though WordPress had done a new… Read More ›

• SPRING HAS SPRUNG – FINALLY!

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/10/2022 • ( 8 )

  

  FOTD – May 10 – RHODODENDRONS This is the way it always happens. All through April, you watch spring happen in the rest of the northern hemisphere and feel deep envy for cherry blossoms and fresh new leaves and blooming gardens…. Read More ›

• OH THE JOY OF HANGING OUT

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/10/2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Hanging out is a concept lost to modern youth, but the most fun times of my young years were spent hanging out. Too bad modern kids have lost it. I was a teenager in college. Madly in love with my first… Read More ›

• SQUIRRELS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/09/2022 • ( 7 )

  

  Some of my cuter and more athletic squirrels demanded a viewing, so here they are!

• MOTHER’S DAY MACROS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/08/2022 • ( 3 )

  

  FOTD – May 8: MOTHER’S DAY ORCHID MACROS Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers and children of mothers. I think the orchids are at their peak now. There are more buds and the last orchid is just beginning to… Read More ›

• WELCOME TO LIVE AND LET LIVE

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/07/2022 • ( 17 )

  

  In every relationship, there comes a moment when you realize the moment has come. You can stop holding your stomach in. You don’t need makeup unless you’re going out. A tee-shirt and sweatpants are okay. You can relax and just… Read More ›

• FRITTATA!

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/07/2022 • ( 19 )

  

  AN ELEGANT, HEALTHFUL MEAL YOU CAN EVEN EAT EVEN ON A DIET! My son Owen, whose birthday it is today, is on the Weight Watcher’s diet. He has lost 16-pounds. He is sticking to that diet. Really. Sticking. To that… Read More ›

• SKETCHBOOK 67 – THE ACROBATIC SQUIRREL

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/07/2022 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s amazing some of the things we see our squirrels doing out there. They are incredibly agile, which probably explains their big spidery feet. They do a lot of clinging to tiny little branches that you wouldn’t think would be… Read More ›

• BUSY DAYS HAVE COME AGAIN

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/06/2022 • ( 4 )

  

  We seem to have suddenly gone from doing nothing to having something happening every day. Back when we were busy people, this would have been no big deal but after so many years of retirement and a couple of years… Read More ›

• SKETCHBOOK 67 – FLOWERS & AN EVIL CHIPMUNK

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/06/2022 • ( 6 )

  I needed a few flowers, so I drew some. But I think it’s going to bloom outside very soon. The trees are all fuzzy with buds and last I looked, there were tons of shoots of daylilies, Solomon’s Seal, Columbine,… Read More ›

• MACROS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/05/2022 • ( 11 )

  

  CMMC – May Closeup or Macro Looking through macros, it would appear I have an awful lot of flowers and not much else. But, sifting through, I found a few others though my favorite are all birds or flowers.