Oh Steve, looking a bit desperate, aren't you?

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INSTAGRAM

FACEBOOK

TWITTER

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I mean ... have some dignity, man! 😂

Who ARE these people?

This happens so much on Instagram it's ridiculous. I delete several a day, every once in a while opening them for my own amusement. I have Keanu Reeves, Lee Greenwood, and of course Steve Perry sending me DMs to connect, all the time.

What's amazing to me is regardless of how ridiculous these messages are, there are people who answer them. People believe celebrities are so taken with their profile that they are contacting them outside their verified account! They believe random people want to date them, or offer them the secret to making millions of dollars. Pretty sure if I had millions of dollars I would be contacting strangers on the Internet to tell them how I got my money!

Not sure what bothers me most - these annoying messages or that there are people who believe them!

The Olympics

Anyone watching? Well, I know no one is reading here so the question is moot. 

I used to watch when I was a kid - it was a big deal back then, of course we only had like 4 channels to
choose from and it was the only thing to watch that wasn't the usual. Now, we have as many channels as

we choose to pay for, cable, streaming, however we get our TV - there is a lot of it.

But I haven't watched since they started allowing professional athletes to compete. It didn't make sense to me anymore. It was all about amateur athletes working hard to get to their dream of competing in the Olympics. Somehow professional athletes seemed to have an advantage to me, seeing as how that was how they were making their living. Not even sure if anyone would consider that a valid argument against watching. But it is my reason. It's not a political stand or a principle I'm standing on. It's as simple as - that's what made me lose interest since it didn't represent what it used to, to me.

Many people aren't watching this year because the games are being held in China. I suppose that might be a consideration if I was interested but I'm just not. 

Makes me a little sad. I remember very clearly feeling proud of our athletes, watching them coming out during the opening ceremonies, crying with them when they won - and when they lost. 

It's just not there anymore. One more thing that has changed as I've gotten older.

Mourning the dove

A dove died on my deck overnight and my camera did not catch it. One video shows a raccoon rummaging around, and another video an hour later shows 2 uninjured doves sitting on the railing,
feathers scattered all over the place and some blood in the snow on the deck. The dove that was attacked was nowhere to be found, ostensibly taken by a predator as a meal.

I've thought about this - birds and squirrels, possums and raccoons have started to think of my back deck as a safe place where there is bird seed and peanuts and sunflower seeds. There is always fresh water, and it's usually not frozen. But did something notice my deck and stake it out to hunt their breakfast?

It's just a dove, right? Circle of life and all that? Yeah. Not feeling it.

I cleaned up what I could, but there is still some blood frozen into the snow, and some random feathers that I missed. Other birds are still coming to eat, and squirrels as well. But there was a single dove eating some seed later in the morning, all alone. Mourning doves do not necessarily mate for life, but it is believed they are aware of the loss of their mate if it happens, and mourn that loss. 

Ugh. Makes me rethink feeding birds and wildlife. It was inevitable that something like this would happen at some point, but it is a bad feeling. 

He's hopelessly in love with me

My boy Cruz. 

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Things that make you go hmm ...

4 yr old granddaughter: Grandma, I think you're getting old.   

Me: Really?? How do you know?

4 yr old granddaughter: Your hair is turning white!

Hmm..

4 yr old granddaughter has never seen my hair any other color.  But okay! Guess she's right - aging just started NOW!