Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Looking At Insects. #22 Dragonfly.
Hi everyone!
Here we are with another of our dragonflies, this time it is the “White-faced Meadowhawk”. This one is the female and these meadowhawks are small dragonflies like the previous one we looked at. It is just 1.3 inches (32mm) in length and, as you can see, it holds its wings forward facing that the other meadowhawk we saw.
This one is around from about mid-July to October though I have never seen it before August. The female lays her eggs later in the day in a grassy area that has the potential for flooding in spring. The eggs overwinter and hatch in spring. Have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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Steve`s Country 
Very cool 😎
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Thank you Dusty! 😁🐉🪰📷
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You’re Welcome 😊
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Did you notice my cool dragonfly emoji? 🤔😁
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Very creative on your part!!😁😉😊
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Thank you! Odd that they don’t have a dragonfly emoji. But then, they don’t have a sleeping cat emoji either and that is just a natural thing to have. 🤔🙄
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I agree with the dragonfly emoji! Very strange they don’t have one!🙄🤔
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Yeah, it’s actually a very popular symbol, it’s on kids and adults clothing, bags, all sorts of things. 🤔🙄
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Yes, I know! You should drop that in the suggestion box! That is if they have one?🤔
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Oh, not me! I don’t want to get involved in a dragon war, that can get hot! Get it, get it?? 😂😂😹😹
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But what would you be dragon??🤭🤭🤭
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A little red wagon with its bottom saggin! 😂😹
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The dragon wagon!!🤣🤣🤣
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The dragon wagon with its bottom saggin! 😂😂😹😹
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That’s the way they make them!!😂😂😂
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The dragon wagon with its bottom saggin, its wheels don’t move so it is laggin which makes the driver start to naggin! 😂😂😹😹
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Becareful it doesn’t start snagging on the furniture!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Hey, wagons are outside vehicles! Roller skates are for indoors! 🤔😁😂😹🙄
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Maybe you should put skates under the dragon wagon that’s sagging and snaggin??😂😂😂
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No, it’s an outside vehicle and it’s staying there! I need it for dragon draggin down the hill on our street! 😁😂😹🏎️
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Oh good!! You need an anchor to help stop!!😂😂😂
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That’s what the hill on the other side is for! 😁😁
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Goid thinking!! Well Done!😂😂
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I thinked so! 🤔
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And did it very very well!!😉☺️😂
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Thank you. 😁
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A thousand welcomes could never express the welcomeness in my reply!!😁😁😁
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Okay, in that case, just use one. 😂
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One it is! You’re Welcome 😊
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I’ll be on line closer to 7:30 tonight. Going to a park for my walk. Chat soon!
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Hi Dusty! You back yet?🤔😁
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I am!😁😊 How about you?🤔
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I’m not sure, things are a bit hazy. Perhaps I need to clean my glasses. 🤔😁😎
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That’s always a good start!!😂 It was getting foggy on my way home tonight
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Thanks. That’s what you get for keeping all that warm air for yourself down there! 🙄
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My digital thermometer in my truck said 63 chilly degrees on my way home tonight 🥶🥶🥶 I thought I was gonna freeze!!😳😳
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Like I said, keeping all that warm air for yourself! 🙄🤨
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What can say?? It likes it here!!🤭🤭🤭
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You’re bribing it somehow, that’s what I think. 🤔🙄
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It is rather fond of me… that could be it?🤭🤭
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Riiiiiiiiight. 🤔🙄🙄
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What can I say??🤭🤭
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How was your day?
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Warmer today, got up to 43 and mostly sunny. But I wasn’t feeling well so did nothing. Sigh. 🥺
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Doing nothing still doing something!😉 Resting g is important also!😁
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Well, I wasn’t really resting either, just had no energy to do anything. Sigh. 🤔🙄
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Kinda the same?🤔🙄 I think…
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Well, resting is generally a voluntary thing. This was more involuntary. 🤔
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Did you read or answer blog comments?
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Yep, there wasn’t very many today. 🤔
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I suppose they could all be busy getting ready for all hallows eve?🤔
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Um, that’s 11 days away. 🙄
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Still lots to do!!😁😊
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Riiiiiiiiiight. Besides, not getting many comments is normal for me. 🤔🙄
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Hmmm…. I think it’s just an anomaly!😉
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Sigh, no, it’s normal. Getting a lot is abnormal. 🤔🙄
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It doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy reading it!
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I didn’t say that, I just said there wasn’t many comments today.
Oops, I see it is time to head off to bed again. Must stick with this new schedule and see if it helps. Hopefully it does.🤔
Good night Dusty! 🥱Sleep well and I will be back with more chatter tomorrow! 😁🌛😴😴
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Good Night Steve!
Sleep Well 💤 🥱 😴 🛏
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Good morning Dusty!😁 How’s things today, any cooler? 😂😹 We’re not really laughing, just clearing our throats. 🙄🙀
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Warmer today than it has the last 3 days!😂😂
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I knew you could survive those somewhat cooler days! It warmed up here too, though not quite as warm as forecast, naturally. 🤔🙄
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Well… that does happen up there this time of year… ❄️ 🏔
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Yes, I have seen it happen myself, very odd indeed. Sorry I wasn’t here earlier, I meant to be, but, I hurt myself a bit more seriously than normal this morning and that finished my whole day. Didn’t even get my morning coffee post out or another post I planned for noon, or my story chapter. Sigh. Sigh. 😯🥺🙀🙄
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I noticed! How did you hurt yourself?
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Taking out the garbage to the street this morning. Kind of pulled me down the steps a bit. Your comment just came through and yet it says 8 minutes. Sigh.
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I’ve had that happen to me on more than one occasion… was it icy on the steps?
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No, it was ice this morning, I mean, frosty this morning, but the steps were fine by the time I took the garbage out, just the garbage can went faster than me and threw my back out. Still terrible, very hard to sit and lie down. 😯
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I get it! They are a handful and heavy! Did you twist?
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I think it was more of a muted scream. 😯😬
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Is that what I heard this morning??😳😲
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Could be, I was facing south at the time. 🤔
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Yeah… and it suddenly became very windy 😳
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How strange, must have been someone else, I don’t have enough wind to blow a leaf. 🤔
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So do you have any medication you can take?
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Yep, lots, only works for about 2 hours though, but I have to wait 4 hours between pills.
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That’s a tough place to be….😬😬 Are keeping heat on it?
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Not right now, I take a break from it now and then. It’s in the bedroom right now or I would turn it on again. But I don’t want to move right now. 🙄
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It’s good to alternate it….
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Yep, otherwise my back gets that BBQ feeling. 🥵
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Yep and those little water bubbles form under your skin!!😬😬
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Ooooh, that’s what those are!
There was just a whole lot of noise outside, but not on the deck, sounded kind of odd, like metal and wood falling down or being dragged or something else. Very odd. Muffin keeps looking at the window but does not want to go and look. All quiet now anyway. 😯🙀🌛
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The feeders weren’t out were they?
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I don’t have them up yet, except the one I use, but it stays out all the time. But it’s on the deck, the noise was definitely not on the deck. The metal sound has me curious though. Guess I will find out in the morning. 🤔🙄
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Could be a racoon?🙄🤔
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Quite possible, although I haven’t seen them for a while now, but they would be a good guess. Still, there is no metal out there. 🤔
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Hmm..🤔🤔 Oh guess what I saw on my walk today?
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A butterfly flutter by?
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Majors long distant cousin was walking down the street in front of me! 8 points from what I could count…
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Oh, nice! Did you go and say hello? Rub around his antlers? They love that!
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No… I’m afraid he was shy and in a hurry to get somewhere..😂😂 I’ll email you a picture!
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Check your email.
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I did, nice pic of Mr. B! 🤔😊
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Yeah!! I thought it was pretty cool seeing him in a busy neighborhood like that!!
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Yeah, guess we’re not the only place to see things like that. Maybe someone is feeding him.
Well, time to say good night again Dusty.🥱
Good night again Dusty! 😴😴Sleep well and more chattering again tomorrow on the morrow! 😁🌛
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Good Night Steve
Feel Better!!
Pleasant Sleeping 😴 💤
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Sorry I won’t be online tonight. I’m going to go see a movie.. chatter with you tomorrow. 😁
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Good for you! Always good to get out now and then! 😁
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Indeed it is!! Hope you had a good day and a great sleep.
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Good morning Dusty! Watching feetsball?
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Hi You!! Sorry I’m late responding..😬😬 No watching feetsball right now… at the Taco Bell drive thru.. how was your day?
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It went by rather fast. Cloudy, not as warm as expected and some showers. You caught me just before I left! 😂😹
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I’m so sorry.. Are you gonna hang around or are you off to bed?
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Well, it’s only 14 minutes before I would normally leave anyway, and Muffin is looking for food. She has pounced on my foot once already, so I guess I better go. But I will be back tomorrow! Have a good night Dusty! 😁🌛😴😴😾🙄
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Alright… I’m sorry..
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No problemo!
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I’ll be around tomorrow.. sleep Good! 💤
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Good morning Dusty! 😁🌞You still a round?🤔😂
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I am right here! And yes I’m round!😂😂😂
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Good stuff! I’m here too and getting rounder every day! 😂😹
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Can’t get much better than that!!😉😊😁
What did you do today?
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Church this morning, otherwise nothing much. There’s a new chapter to read. 😁
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Yay!! Woooo hooo! BRB!
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Okie and dokie. 😁
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Strange twists and turns!! It’s very hard to understand what is happening and why??😳😳😳😲😲😲
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Yep, this one is really strange. Who would have thought this would happen? 🤔🤔
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Well, tis time for the bed time for the old time guy. That’s me. Early morning for shopping. Hopefully I remember everything this time. Sigh. 🥱
Good night Dusty! 😁😴🌛Sleep good and more chatter coming your way tomorrow! 😁🌞
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Alright!!
Good Sleeping and Pleasant Dreaming!
Chatter tomorrow!😁
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Good morning Dusty! 😁🌛How’s the weather?🤔
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A little bit of rain today, but the sun was out for awhile too but it was nice
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Sounds like here! We had thunderstorms, big ones, all night! Today the wind is 40mph with gusts up to 60 and the temp has been dropping all afternoon. Started at 60 this morning, now it is 45, going down to 35 and staying there all day tomorrow. 😯🙀
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Brrr…. that’s chilly!!🥶🥶 And quite a drop in temp in one day!!
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Yeah, and that wind makes it feel even worse! Should see some flurries tomorrow. 😯🙀
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That’s all part of the winter season!😬😬 But alot to endure in one day!🥶
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Oooooooh, using such a bad word!! 🤨
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I know!! Sometimes it just can’t be helped!!😂
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Yeah, well, you’ll soon have cooler summer weather! HA! Got ya back! 🤨😂😹
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Ahhh…😬😬 that’s totally true!!
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Hahahaha! Such a terrifying thought! 😂😹
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Hey… 60 is cold when you’re not used to it!!😂😂🥶🥶
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Yes, I suppose, gettin softee alreadee! 😂😹
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Yepperie!! That’s me… the softie!!😂😂
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You should try doing a polar bear swim next year! 😁🥶😱
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Not on your or my life!!! 🥶🥶🥶🥶 A person can freeze doing that!!
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Where you live the water would only be barely cool, not freezing. 🙄🤔
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Not gonna do it!! I still have to get out of the water and that’s when I start to shake like a leaf in the fall!!🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
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Just make sure your electric blanket is next to the pool. 😁
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Yeah… that’ll help!!🥶🥶
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You’re welcome! Always happy to help out with fabulous ideas! 😁
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I’ll stick to a nice warm shower 🚿 in my apartment 😂😂
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I don’t believe it! 😯😱
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Yep! It’s hard to believe but I can control the room and water temp!😉😂😂
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Your bravery is astounding, I must say. 😯🙄😂😹
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I don’t like shivering!!😖😖😖 It’s the worst feeling in the world!! Once I start I can’t stop!!🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
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I know the feeling exactly!! 🥶🙄
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Brrrrr……
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I know that feeling exactly! 🙄🥶
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I can still remember the very first time it happened to me!!! I was in junior high school at a football game on a Friday night!! Walking uptown to where my dad was supposed to pick me up. I didn’t wear a jacket that night ! 🥶🥶🥶
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Cool! You young people have such good memories! 😁
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That one I’m afraid will never fade!!🥶🥶🥶🥶
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You need to try remembering better rememberings! 🤔
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Sadly there’s more bad ones than good in my younger days… but I try!😁
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Oops, forgot this one. Anyway, time for bed, those thunderstorms kept me awake a lot last night.🥱🌛
Good night Dusty! 😴😴Sleep well tonight! Chatter again tomorrow! 😁🌞
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Good Night! Sleep Well!
Talk tomorrow for sure…
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Good morning Dusty! 😁🌞How’s things? You awake? Eating? Walking? Watching TV? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Watching TV! How’d ya guess??🤔🤔
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Well, I figured one of those should be right! hehe. Did you read today’s chapter yet? It’s been out for ages already! 😁🕵️♂️
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No I have not read it yet… I guess I’ve been watching TV for ages….🤭🤭
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Aha! I knew it! 🕵️♂️
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Yeah.. ya did!!😛
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He he and he! 😂😹
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Hmmmm….. is that right!😂😂😹😹
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I’m not sure, I forgot! 😂😹
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Lucky for you… although I’m not sure why..🤔🤔🙄
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Well, she stopped now and is getting ready for her pre bedtime nap. 😃😺
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Then tell her good night 😴
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Too late. But I will later when we go to bed. 😁
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Ok thank you!😁
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My pleasureable pleasure! 😁
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BRB
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Okie and dokie. 🕵️♂️
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I am back now! Miss me?🤔
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Me back too. Muffin woke up and needed attention, food, normal evening stuff! 😃😺
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I’m happy to hear all is well there!😁😊
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Yep, Muffin is now flying around the place! 😃😻
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Tell her that the Dusty human says hello 👋
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She looked at me kind of odd like and said, ‘that’s the human Dusty person, not Dusty human’. 😾🙄😂😹
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Human Dusty… Dusty human we’re all the same guy!!😂😂
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You want I should tell Muffin you are laughing at her? 🤔🙄
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Laughing at myself!😁
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Oooooo, good one! 😯
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I thought so!😁😊
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I wonder if Muffin would agree? 🤔🙄
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I’m sure hoping so!!😬😬🙄🙄
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Right. I won’t tell her you’re making fun of her though. 🙄
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Well I’m not!! But thank you!😁😉
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I’m welcome. 😁🙄
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Yes you are! Very!!😉😊😁
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I am thanking you with thankful thankfulness thankfully with thanks. 😃
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Again… you are most positively postive Welcome!😊
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I am most thankfully thanking you with great thankfulness! 😃
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That is absoposalutely without any questionable question very certainly true!😊😁
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I am questioning the very questionable questioning of this questionable dialogue! 😂😹
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Me to!!😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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Oh well, I forgot where we came from on that one. Sigh.🙄
Anyway, time for bed once again, 🥱days go by so fast sometimes when they go by fast.😯
Good night Dusty! 😃🌛😴😴Sleep well and I will be back with more chatter tomorrow! 😃🌛
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Okie Dokie Steve!
Good Night
Sleep Well 💤 🥱 😴
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I am going out for supper tonight. I may not be back in time to catch you before you go to bed. But I will try!😁
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Okie and dokie. 😁
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Good morning Dusty! Are you home? 🤔😃
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I am right here! Are you there?
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Oh, you are home! Great! Did you read today’s chapter yet?
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Not yet! BRB!😁
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Good for you! I’m here when you get back. Oh wait, you are back. 🤔🙄
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That I am!!
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Me too, me too!! Busy today? I finally got my one feeder pole all set to put in place. Hopefully I can do the other one tomorrow, unless it rains. 🤔🙄
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Not particularly busy, no… but that doesn’t bother me much anymore.. the slower pace suits me for now. Although there is big project coming in the next 6 months that will likely change the pace. But that’s ok…
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That’s good, slow is nice for a while, then being busy will be a good change. 😃
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I hope so… I’m hoping it doesn’t become overwhelming 😕
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Hmm, yes, that can be a problem too. Let’s hope it won’t be that bad. 😯🤔
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Yep! It should be done by May or June. I hope!
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Oh, that’s good!
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I hope!🤞
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I agree! Good bunny ears. 😃
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Thanks!😁 I like bunnies 🐰 ☺️
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Well, time for bed time to get to bed in time or mostly in time or on time and in bed sometime. 🥱
Good night Dusty! 😁🌛Time went by fast tonight. Sleep well 😴and more chatter comes your way tomorrow! 😃🌛😴😴
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Good Night Steve! 😴
Good Sleeping 😴 💤
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I see the new chapter is out! BRB
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Okie and dokie.
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I’m back!😁
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You may need to enlarge the pictures
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I did! Nice pic of Mr. B! 😁I might have said that before. 🤔
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Sometimes the body has the final say in what it wants not to do!!🙄
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My body is certainly great at that! 😂😹
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It can be hard to argue with… that’s for sure!!😂😂
I’ve yet to win with mine!!😂😂
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Good point for sure. 🤔
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The body can make very painful to not listen!😉
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That’s a good point for sure. 🤔
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No chapter today?🤔
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Great shot, Steve! So, you just had to share some of your cold weather with us, eh? We woke to 37 F and tonight they are forecasting a hard freeze! Give Muffin a hug and stay warm. 🌬😻🧣 🧤 🧥 🧦☕️☕️☕️☕️
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We spent 2 days and three nights staying below freezing! Too early for that kind of weather. I hope that is not a sign of things to come! Yes, we do like to share! 😂😹🙄🌛🌞☕☕
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Ha ha ha ha ha…. I don’t know why I’m laughing at him 🤣🤣🤣it definitely looks funny 😆. The pose obviously 😜 I loved this shot and it looks funny 😉 I must have zoomed in too much 😋 It looks like a funny man. Head
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You see something I don’t, but I’m glad you liked it anyway! 😁😂😹📷🍂🍁🐉🪰
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You should zoom in at its head and blue your vision a little 😅. You’ll see what I see 😁
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I tried, but it scared me! 😬😂😹
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😂🤣🤔😜
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