Lily Ponds Cottage

05/06/2024

SCORPION ALERTS!

Last night. I was doing a puzzle on my iPad when I saw the moving shadow, tail curled, walking to outer side of bed.
A scorpion walled across my chest. I flung it off, shook my sheet, not to realize that I had flung it into my loose nightshirt. A few minutes later, I felt a sting at top of my breast. I flung off my shirt, put on another, mixed some scorpion spray, sprayed all around my bed. I’m spraying both inside and out of all houses tomorrow.

05/03/2024

I made the greatest spaghetti sauce!! Whole garlic head, whole onion, pkg Italian sausage, two big cans of diced tomatoes, water to clean cans, salt, sugar, pepper, Italian seasoning, oregano, fennel, oregano, basil, bay leaves—to taste. I think that’s it. Freeze in small containers to make with pasta and Parmesan cheese.

05/01/2024

I don’t know what we can do to avoid situations like this. Once again, I have been violated. I’m still broken from the horrible scam several years ago and not this.

I got a credit karma debit card to use to save 5% at Walmart, the only store I go to. A debit card with $100. I have accidentally overlooked two emails from credit karma on 3/23 saying my email and PIN had been changed. Then 4/30 there was a $950 withdrawal by credit karma from my bank account!!!!

The dispute will take a minimum of 10 days to get my money back in my account. Credit karma is frozen and cancelled, directive to return my $100. Now I gave to get a new account/debit card number and change all my auto pays.

Please pray for my fragile state. I know you will.

04/23/2024

I am so thankful for each of you. YOU are my precious gifts. I love you all❤️

04/22/2024

Happy EARTH day!!!! May we all do our parts to keep the earth cleaner!

04/14/2024

The big galoot. No truer statement applicable to CID (Crazy Incorrigible Dog): “Let sleeping dogs lie.” About 50 lbs, legs about 1 1/2’ but my shadow baby. 2 years, five months.

04/09/2024

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04/06/2024

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03/23/2024

EUREKA!! I can attest to the fact that baking soda—not sugar—cuts the acidity of tomato based sauces!!!!

03/23/2024

Dough doubling, sauce simmering, pepperoni and mozzarella thawing
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03/08/2024

I really needed Gaye Gammon Farr’s post just now:

Asking for prayers. We are getting an online prayer circle going. My love to everyone who reads this. Let's pray for each other today because prayers are needed right now. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. I ask my family and friends wherever you might be, to kindly post this status for one hour, to whisper a prayer for all of those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, or worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of my family and friends just for moral support. I did it for someone else, and you can, too ! ♥️I copied & posted to my wall.

03/08/2024

Please my angel family and friends. Prayers so needed. David was hallucinating and walking wobbly.

03/08/2024

03/07/2024

Ode to King Robert

Beautiful rooster
I saved you from the stew pot,
Thanks to Dustin Wyatt Laake,
Several years ago.
You survived the teeth of dogs,
The pecks of ducks,
Over, over, over.
Rooster of nine lives.
Your last life ended in the koi pond.
So sad to lose you, my darling.

03/04/2024

First Indian Paintbrush I’ve seen: New Ulm TX, 3/4/24

03/03/2024

Wow. The accidental open gate turned out to be a blessing. With the weeds (grasses growing where unwanted) in the yard, I invited the six goaties, two piggies (donkey boy Silver is recalcitrant, middle name of a donkey😼.) (Miniature pony Sugar is staying in the yard.) into the yard to be my yard boys and girls. Of course, smartest-goat-on-the-block Benjy has gone around to each house door to see if it’s unlocked. NO LUCK, BENJY BOY!! I LOVE my animal life❤️❤️😝

03/02/2024

My first and most important country lesson: gates.

Accidental open gate to kid/pig pasture.

All kids (goats) but Inkie plus one piggie Miss Nici in yard.

Yard boy longhorn Butchie in yard with open gate to open pasture (coyotes).

Corn feed lured some kids back (out, then back in, out, in)

Benjy goat opened side door. Everyone piled in house. Lured out again with feed.

Running to pasture gate, I lured longhorn Butch out before he impaled me.

Goats who had gone through the big pasture gate, I lured back in.

I lured a few, with feed of course, into their side pasture (some out, a couple back in).

Big Boer Gilbert has hurt his back leg, limping.

Status quo. Benjy still trying to open locked house door. One pig, 3 kids still in yard.

I'm exhausted with longhorn horn threat, goats, a couple with long horns, jumping up on me.

Higgley piggledy.
I love it😜

Below: the usual suspects😼Benjy licking the block is the door opener!

02/28/2024

Prayers have had a wonderful effect already. THANK YOU!!!!!

02/28/2024

😭😱😱😱😫MASSIVE prayers needed, PLEASE.

02/28/2024

A few minutes of my animal life:

Yard boy longhorn Butch. Gate open. Gilly goat jumped into yard. Gate open. Butch by side gate. Lured out with corn. Gilly by front fence. Lured on porch with sweet feed. Closed front gate. Safe. Phew. Lured Gilly into Curly’s yard. Phew. Sugar pony came in yard. Good. Thin. Given sweet feed. David holding Curly’s leash. Incessant barking wanting me. Gilly back in yard eating roses. Still in yard. Curly panting his head off. Gave cat of cat food to calm. Threw Frostie’s last two nerve pills into his mouth. Now, he’s chewing the cat food can. Quiet. I hope!! No. Quiet panting.

02/25/2024

Oh, the power of smell. A hyacinth, tall, filled with flowers, grew out of the back door of my childhood country home. I loved bending close to the earth to inhale deeply those rich aromas. This is a photo of my naturalized hyacinth, not as lush a smell but the same rich memory. (Maybe more bone meal is needed.)

02/22/2024

My baby passed.

02/15/2024

Sleeping Crazy Dog (Curly Q III on rare days😼) and sweet Maddie

02/15/2024

I am told that tomorrow starts the new Facebook rule (aka... new name, META) where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!!

I do not authorize Facebook or any entity associated with Facebook to use my photos, information, messages or posts, past or future.

With this statement, I notify Facebook that it is strictly prohibited to disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. Violation of privacy may be punishable by law.
Ok so that's done. ✅
Here's how to do it:
Hold your finger anywhere in this message and “copy” will appear. Click “copy”. Then go to your page, create a new post and place your finger anywhere in the empty field. “Paste” will appear and click Paste.

He who does nothing consents.

02/11/2024

Sorry. 1 in 4 Jewish Americans were victims of hate last year. So savagely horrible! What is WRONG with this world???? Jews have never done anything but produce brilliance, yet have been so horribly persecuted because others so inadequate were jealous. Such shame on the prosecutors.

02/11/2024

WHAT IN THE WORLD???
I just saw a Super Bowl spot that 1 in 4 Jews were attacked last year?????????

02/10/2024

Steelhead trout—so yummy!

01/17/2024

A tip for our outside babies: get a crock pot, add water, and set on warm under a porch. They will have warm water, not ice.

01/12/2024

Another life, probably her ninth:

Now, I’m confused. I took a can of wet food out to the condo. Pippie was not on her little stool. As soon as I opened the tin, I heard a thud. Pippie had been sitting on a tree stump about 4’ high, had quickly jumped onto the big garbage bin holding the cat litter container to keep it dry, the thud, and immediately stuck her head in the tin to eat. I don’t think the other cats will get any until she is full. There are lots of cubbyholes in the condo to stay warm and dry. I don’t think I’ll take her tomorrow.

01/12/2024

Ode to Pippie

I have to put Pippie down tomorrow. Seven kittens were born on July 7, 2007. 7/7/7. They were born in the feed room of the store in town. Something happened to the mom. I volunteered to take them. Seven newborns. Precious dog Blanchie was still with us, and she helped me by cleaning them as I fed them. Only Pippie and Blossom remain. A year ago, Pippie started p*eing on David’s bed. I had reached my limit of washing linens. She then came to live in the cat condo with Twinks, who also had p*eing issues inside. A few days ago, I noticed that Pippie was sitting by herself and not talking to me when I put food out and that she was limping. I brought her inside and prayed that she wouldn’t p*e on the bed. But today she did. A lot. I returned her to the cat condo, but I can’t let her suffer in the freezing weather that is coming. I made a soft little bed for her, food, water, litter box near. Oh, Pippie, I love you so very much.