Day 227 of Week 33 August 2025
Cooler nights are a reminder autumn is nearing. However, early this week the 90°Fahrenheit ambient temperatures stirred no foliage dreams.
Leaf peeper season this year (without foliage tour plans) will be see a maple tree, buy a pumpkin at the grocery store and wear a scarf on a frosty morning. Since my summer plans didn’t happen, I’m going light on autumn.
Have a Light & Bright Weekend!
Roast & glaze veggies
Draw a field of sunflowers
Browse nature tee shirts online
Write a 5 year plan
Brew a spicy tea
Read poetry aloud
Talk a walk with friends
Laugh
August Is August
Guess what tomorrow is!?
My return to regular posting on the 15th is scheduled to appear at midnight.
The week flew by!
Great news though, a major stress/anxiety surge is over. I napped away the emotional exhaustion when I returned home from the DMV after renewing my driver’s license.
What a wimp I was taking a week plus to just get there after I realized I had to go in person for a new photograph. Appointments are rough for me to get to despite efforts to make it easier.
Note to locals:
There is No Middlebury DMV office.
It closed years ago.
The website dmv.gov giving information is wrong.
At a 9 AM arrival, South Burlington DMV: the parking was easy, the wait less than 2 hours, and clerks were pleasant and helpful.
Otherwise, I’ve been nowhere and done much of nothing but putter, water flowers, and write plans for my YouTube channel (to debut at the end of September 2025).
There is a lot of reading to do on YouTube policies and that’s in addition to researching how to set up a vlog channel.
The scope is wider than I anticipated. Thankfully, my 17 years of blogging and about 25 being online does help, especially understanding the importance of marketing.
How is your summer going? Do you vlog? Use Instagram?
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Have a Wonderful Summer
On a Blog Hiatus
will resume posting
15 August 2025
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New Haven River in August
Lincoln, Vermont
When Oops Is Funny
Every year I buy myself a birthday present. The reminder we are important to ourselves is a message, I believe, we need to hear as well as respect.
Mind you, the birthday present-to-self is not an excuse to go off and go wild buying stuff. There have been years when birthday cake was my present-to-self. (I was on a no sweets diet.)
This year I bought an adorable half inch serepentine pendant necklace.
This is not the first time I have not paid attention to an item’s size. There’s the hot air balloon poster to cover the wall above my double closet that arrived in a size ten envelope. And then there’s the small bedside lamp that arrived in a box the size of a beer keg. Yes, I have made mistakes buying online.
The lovely part about it is all those oops made me laugh.
Adding…
Evidently there are 2 choices to have with a Dunkin Blueberry Breeze Refresher. No need (when asked what I want with that) for me to keep saying “A straw.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥴
Cold Beans & Daylight
There ya go!
Cold Beans and Daylight
Debut the end of September 2025
My YouTube channel name!
Yay for me!
Here’s the story.
You know the question:
If a tree falls in the woods, then does it make a sound?
Well, this morning in a dark room, I open the blinds to see daylight! I’m thinking then, it’s like a tree in the forest, if the blinds aren’t open, then is there daylight!?
I laugh aloud as I go over to the tiny kitchen to cook breakfast. I decide on one egg and some cold canned beans (maple flavor).
Right then and there, with my thoughts all jolly and whatnot, I tell myself that is a great YouTube channel name, Cold Beans and Daylight. It fits my quirky personality. And, it has a genuine story.
An Internet search results in nobody online using cold beans, as a brand or profile name. Cold beans as part of a title but not in the context of my channel name. The domain name, cold beans, is available for over five thousand dollars. In other words, my made up channel name is good to use as it does not step on anyone’s toes.
Back in the 1980s my mother served cold baked beans at a family barbecue. I was appalled! Outraged! Disgusted! Over reaction city I was.
Then I tried them, after I was told they are safe to eat right out of the can.
Cold beans and potato salad with garden relish has been my favorite summer meal since then.
My YouTube channel may not be the biggest or most popular someday, but it will be lots of fun for me.
Summer Updates
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| Inking lines has begun |
The second ink and watercolor drawing is a go with the flow with no or very little planning. It is more relaxing to do because I can play with mistakes to turn them into successes.
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| Abstract drawing in progress |
Elsewhere…
Last week the side of my left leg banged into something sharp. I don’t remember what it was. When the plum size bruise is noticed, I start looking for things at that level. Trying to match up a bruise with an object is probably one of the weirdest experiences of my summer thus far.
The object might be my iron framed coffee table. If I was getting off the sofa, the leg could have made contact then.
I have been careful this summer to avoid (most) injuries, wear sunscreen and use bug spray. I think I’ve had one mosquito bite early in the season.
The weather here has been dry or downpour season, an indoors or maybe outdoors kind of summer.
I missed the county fair due to a calendar mishap. I wrote down the wrong dates.
A particular derp depression slump left me with widespread catching up to do.
How is your summer going?
Reflection Monday August 2025
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| Old Profile Photo |
The profile photograph can be anything you feel represents you.
Reflect on what represents you
Day 213 of Week 31 August 2025
Welcome August!
A bit of trivia.
Today is my birth due date, (the day I was due to be born). Instead, to the great displeasure of my mother, I waited a few weeks.
Have a lovely Earth Weekend!
Skip rocks
Have a hot fudge sundae
with blueberry ice cream
Browse wicker furniture online
Sit & sketch outdoors
Read about sailboats
Update your first aid kits
Dance with your shadow
Attend a county fair
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