2024, Family, gardening, Kids

Strolling Along

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This is not my normal rant about strollers.  I promise.

Over the weekend, as I was driving down Penn, I passed Wagner’s Garden Center.  There was a family leaving: two smaller kids, maybe 5 and 6 on their little scooters.  Behind them was Dad with the stroller, full of plants and flowers.  Behind Dad was Mom pulling the wagon full of bags of potting soil and mulch.

I’ve seen strollers full of kids, all the various stuff you take with you when you leave the house with kids.  I’ve seen strollers with dogs and even a stroller once with two cats.  But never a stroller full of plants.  It was a charming scene – it made me smile all through the rest of my errands.

Anything charming in your life lately?

21 thoughts on “Strolling Along”

  1. yes I see charming stuff all day every day

    yesterday I saw a dad playing with his kid while out shopping . Most kids get brought along to do chores and learn to do the tedious chore. This kid was picking up stuff while out playing with dad. It was charming

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  2. Just now two of The Birds bathing together with a third trying to get in on the excitement.

    Just like little kids in a tiny backyard swimming pool.

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    At the Eden Prairie Community Center they have daily classes for neuro disorders (called Parkinson’s Functional Living, but any disorder will do). Lou has been attending some of them for the exercise and the socializing. The leader and organizer, Marie, is so lovely and charming. She makes everyone welcome and knows the names of the 40 people involved. What a day brightener! The participants and the leaders are all so welcoming. It has done both Lou and I a world of good.

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  6. opposite of charming: my son is flying from Boise to Dallas. In Boise at security they felt in everyone’s groin and buttocks.

    Four aides give every resident special loving attention, know what interests them, asks about their day, makes sure they are comfortable. One makes sure Sandra has lipstick on. One calls her grandma and hugs her all the time and does the same sort of thing to the other residents. Charming.

    Clyde on a beautiful day

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      1. Guinevere is not a lapdog and right now she’s avoiding me and ignoring me, laying out in the hall. I had the vacuum in my room for about an hour doing a deep clean – vacuuming, dustinf, wiping down. She hates the vacuum.

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  8. Charming but annoying- a robin has built a nest on top of the lamp just outside our front door, and I saw the mom feed little ones worms this morning. We aren’t using the front door until they fly away.

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    1. Other years, a robin has built a nest on the gutter downspout by our deck. This year it hasn’t. But I saw a robin nest yesterday on top of a wood post by the machine shed. Four or five little beaks bobbing out of it this morning.

      And the barn swallow by our front door has been sitting in their nest on top of the windchime. They sit quietly as we come and go.

      XDFBen

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  9. I had an oriole feeder filled with grape jelly and sliced oranges. The orioles were here every day. Then the house finches came. House finches are relatively plain little birds. The males are usually somewhat red, but not as red as a purple finch. At this time of year, the males are quite red and they’re doting mates. The males and females go around in pairs. They really took over the oriole feeder and two pairs of house finches have been here almost constantly. The orioles left for less busy feeders. I left the oriole feeder up and filled with grape jelly though. The finches have been so charming to watch. I just took it down this morning, about one minute before an inspection crew came strolling down the lane, taking photos of all the units, pointing and staring up. They weren’t charming at all. Bird feeders aren’t allowed here. I’m such a rule breaker. The hummingbird feeder stays. It’s not hurting anyone, and if you ever want to see something charming, watch the hummingbirds quarreling over space at a feeder with six openings on it!

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    1. Hummingbirds are surprisingly aggressive for such a small bird. We saw our first one this year on Saturday while we were having dinner in our back yard.

      We have two large honeysuckle vines climbing on two segments of our back yard fence, they provide wonderful shelter for birds, especially the sparrows. There’s often a ruckus emanating from the inner sanctum of the vines. The foliage is so dense that you catch only the occasional shadow of a bird flitting about, but, even without being able to see them, there’s no doubt that they’re there.

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  10. Today I saw a couple of the canine neighbors that come around to see me – a little spaniel named Dewey, and a bigger guy named Sebastian, not sure of what sort of breed he is. I don’t see as much of the dogs in the wintertime, when I’m not doing as much walking and they’re not out in their yards as much.

    Dewey and Sebastian each have an abundance of charm.

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  11. Just went to folk dance, which I’ve skipped for a couple of months. We now meet in the dining hall of an old mansion that has been converted to a senior residence.

    There is one resident, a woman in a wheelchair, who comes every week, hums along and bobs her head to the music, and for our last dance, and we dance around her, she’s in the center. She basically dances with us, does all the arm movements, sings along, does everything but use her feet. It is charming to the nth degree.

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