Ruby Tuesday~ April 10, 2012- (About Tina's backpacking trip)

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My daughter Tina ~the adventurer~ has an  approx 50 mile backpacking hike in the Smokey Mountains,coming up April 28th.

 She set up her camping tent to show us this weekend, in our back yard.

The backpack will be over 40 lbs-

These are her cool red boots!  :)

 

 Tina is very excited about this event!

The only thing that would make it more exciting for her is if her daughter, Alli, could be going with her; but Alli can't go because of her college  obligations.

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Tina will drive to Tn  where the group will meetup and be taken to the point where they will begin the hiking trip the next day.

 They will sleep in small tents (which they carry) 3 (or maybe it's 4) nights and will sleep one night in a rustic cabin! (with no electricity) They will hike  almost 50 miles over this time period of 5 days!!

Does this sound like fun? :) She thinks so...

I'd be remembering all those scary movies I've seen about hikers and campers around a campfire at night...and bears and mountain lions...and worse....that guy in the hockey mask!

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Read all about it here!

http://fatpacking.com/2012/GSMitinerary.aspx

This is the map of the hike-with each day marked in a different color.

(click to enlarge)

Junie

Ruby Tuesday 2~ Jan 17, 2012-Red flowers in winter

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She sits on the counter,

with flowers of winter...

 dreaming of  pastures of clover.

    How long can it be,

until spring will be 'spring-ing'...

now that Christmas is over?

Junie Rose

Ruby Tuesday 2-Jan 9, 2012- one more look at Christmas

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~one more look at Christmas~

I came across this picture taken at my daughter's house a recent Christmas. The tree and the 2 santas are my papier mâché

craft work!

LOL-OK- No more Christmas posts 'til next Christmas season!

Love,

Junie

~My Poinsettias-after the freeze~

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NOTE: 

I was doing this post for Ruby Tuesday but when I went to link up to that blog- (Mary the Teach at Work of the Poet)- she announced there that she's ending the weekly Meme of Ruby Tuesday!
:(

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I had my RT post ready so I will go ahead with it anyway!

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As I have mentioned before, we are a little too far north in Fl for Poinsettias to make it through the cold we are sure to get...

Although the plants usually do make it, the freezing temps are sure to come when the plant is at it's most beautiful stage with the showy flowers in bloom, and the flowers are instantly zapped by the freezing temps!

The aim we have and the best we can hope for is to have our flowers in bloom at Christmas.

I accomplished that with a few bushes around our place and especially this one that I had planted last year in our front courtyard.

(shown in a previous post)

Last night's freezing temps ended it's glorious display  for this year...

Well, not completely. Notice in the picture the one flower not affected. It's on the same bush with the others that are hanging limp and wasted.  It's in the front, too, and not in a protected place at all.

That is weird and I don't understand...

But I'm not complaining.  I'll enjoy looking at it a little while longer!

Junie

Ruby Tuesday~Dec 27-2011~ Santa's Hat (pictures for family)

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Santa- by mistake, I'm sure- left his hat at my house on Christmas Eve...

(I DO hope he had another one in his sleigh  so that he was able to make it back to the North Pole  with his ears kept toasty warm!)

...And I hope dear Santa doesn't mind that I decided to wear that plush and warm hat all day on Christmas!

It kept me in a festive mood as Charlie and I prepared the feast...

 

 

 ...and later as we opened gifts!

I can see why Santa prefers that bright , red, fur trimmed, velvet hat to all others!

It's touched with a kind of magic!

Love,

Junie Rose

Ruby Tuesday~Dec 20, 2011~Santas in red around my house

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Here are some Santas in red around my house!

I collect Santa figures of all types. Some of these are handmade by me-some are vintage and some are from recent years! They are all equally charming to me!

I love santas...I guess you've noticed!

:)

Love,

Junie

Ruby Tuesday~Dec 13, 2011~ Alli's NY adventure!

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Alli -checking out NYC on our first night there.

We didn't get snow on our visit but we DID get some COLD!

~ LOVE the red hat! ~

Junie

Mellow Yellow Monday-Ruby Tuesday-Midweek Blues-"NYC Subways"

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Without the NY subways it would not have been possible for us to  see and do all the things we did in 4 days... at least, not possible for the senior lady in the group!

My daughter, Tina, did a lot of research and planning  before our trip and she knew exactly where we were at any given time and knew which subway we'd need to take to get to where we wanted to go....and how far the walk would be to get to the subway station!  My girl is truly amazing!

(On the other hand-I was lost the whole time I was there...I just left it to the girls to figure things out!)

We found riding the subways a fun experience....lol- not at all like it is so often shown  to be in movies or TV shows; with unsavory characters running through all the connected cars with guns!  :)  We did see some interesting guys, though,  entertaining the passengers with their music - a wide variety!

This one act we got a picture of was fun!!  :)

We saw 2 or 3 others during our rides around the city!

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We were surprised at some of the interesting art displays at the stations and I will share some  here.

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~Mellow Yellow Subway Scenes~

(for Mellow Yellow Monday)

June - getting there

~Some subtle yellows~

~Red Subway Scenes~

(for Ruby Tuesday)

Alli captured my first subway ride!

 My girls at a different times

More Ruby Red Scenes

~Blue Subway Scenes~

(For Midweek Blues)

Still- even with the subway system, (and all those steps down and up again)  a LOT of walking is involved in a visit to NYC! Lol- and at the end of the day you have tired feet!!

  ( Those feet in the white Nikes were especially tired!)

:)

Love,

Junie

(The end of the ride)