IT LIVES, squash boys, charm bracelet and eye jab

The butchered scheflera from days ago. https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8073708122153767302/4726374741645823138

It is trying so hard! How cute the babies are!

I did not have much hope that it would bounce back but there you go- bouncing babies!

 The little girls next door are back from their holiday, They brought this bouquet over yesterday when I was at Flora's . 

 

By flora's house this nasty hedge grows with the lovely blue flowers poking through. Not sure if the hedge is cypress,cedar or juniper . We used to have them bordering our yard when we moved in. They smell like a kitty litter box and if you fall in them while catching a ball you will get poked and itchy.  We replaced them with a rock wall.

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School starts next week already! I have never been thrilled at that turn of the calendar. School dread! Long dark clammy days.

The squash blossom boys are still blooming and parading across the deck, for scale this is how large and grand their faces are!

I unearthed my mother's charm bracelet the other day, wondering what to do with it, deciding  again, to just keep it with her ashes in the ginger jar.

Most of the charms are obvious- a Kenedy half dollar the year he was murdered. A ruby anniversary- a heart of tiger's eye that my Dad made , abacus because my mother was fond of math and keeping finances balanced, Black hills gold, Maple leaf, Canada, race car, German stein. But I could not figure out why the charm dated 1896-1996. Could be for the year that Elizabeth Cady Stanton testified in congress, women's rights and abolition, The first female to do so.

Could be to represent the first periodic table of elements presented by Dimitri Mendeleev- My new favorite on the table is Copper  (cu) Niton (nt) which is something one might use to describe Ann Coulter, if one were to be polite/impolite.

But really I am pretty sure it was to commemorate the  driving of the Golden Spike joining the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific RR. My Dad's grandfather was there and we were a railroad family in a Union Pacific town.  We loved trains, still do.  Our lives were governed by the crew schedule of  the U.P.R.R.  Trains are some of my best memories and  bear a strong connection to my Dad and Grandfathers.

Mom drove us out of town a little way to where the train had stopped, to board  the caboose and to experience  where my
Dad worked. A most vivid memory, the smell , the horse hair /leather cushions, the colors of deep red and black,  the darkness, the pot stove in the middle, the tiny table where the conductors played gin rummy on the run from Rawlins to Green River.  I was Flora's age-  three. 

Charm bracelets date back to the Neolithic period- and were thought to ward off evil. Served as talismans . In the 1950's they became a craze, everyone's mother had one, little girls had dime store bracelets with poodles , ballerinas, cowboys and horses and musical notes on them. You may have had one. Anyway, the charms meant something to my mother , I will keep them and let the kids decide after I am dead what to do with them. 

Today I went in for another eye jab which takes all day really and then driving home slowly half blinded- laying on the sofa to recover. It is now night time and I can  finally open my eye, It can see! It is still most miraculous!

Questions asked- do you have floaters?

Ans- "Always"

Have you experienced flashing lights?

Ans- not really , I have not been pulled over for a long time....

HAHA

Question- are you allergic to any drugs?

Ans- Not that I know of, I have not tried them all.

Question- would you like to?

Ans- Oh yes please.

HAHA

And when the injection was doing its lava lamp blubs in my eye, the doctor said now all you need is  acid.

HAHA. 

This is the desk where you pay your copay and pick up the sunglasses that will get you home, maybe, without wrecking your car. 

The Doctor is taking his staff out on the whale watching boat for an office outing. Cool dude- great eye place! Saved my bacon!

I wondered what the DNC was going to do with all of the money we donated to the campaign- clearly spent it on gigantic balloons!