Ernie Hatmaker
Just doing me and mine, but you're welcome to follow along! This blog started off as just a bit of a ho-hum diary, kind of a place to empty the brain of loose ends. It has become now a place to spare my desk of thousands of notebooks filled with my thoughts of the day, and even just to connect with my new framily on Youtube. If you want to contact me about my doctoral dissertation editing, please contact me via your university's editors' listings. I don't discuss those topics here. Thank you!
Friday, June 21, 2024
Life with twins
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
SKUNK! π³π¦¨ #skunks
Sunday, May 26, 2024
The Little Things
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Elodie, the Labradoodle. Mourning the loss of a pet.
Elodie
Always alert
Always running
Always in the lead...
You are
Never relaxed
Never content
Never fully trusting you’re secure...
You are
We feed you
House you
Dress your constant wounds
Take you to see new things
Buy toys you shred
Buy treats that last only minutes
To see you smile
To see your tail wag
To see you’re aware that you’re loved...
You are
Too curious, too adventurous
Too anxious to explore
You are
Too trusting, too naive
Too sheltered from the outside world
You are
Gone now
Across the Rainbow Bridge
You are
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The garden is looking like a garden now!
Remember the other day when I was going out in the pouring rain to check on the garden? Yeah, well...that day saw the opening and subsequent ripping of my rain suit. π It seemed to fit fine, and I wore it over my regular clothes. I walked around for a few minutes in the driving rain, and just as the rain began to slow down, I saw a carrot top peeking out of the soil. As I bent in for a closer look, I felt the rip. It seemed small, but when I pulled off the rain pants, I saw it ripped from the crotch seam aaaall the way down to the ankle! I stayed dry, but I can't wear those again. Twenty dollars down the drain.
But with the April showers come mid-April, well, maybe not flowers. Take a look!
Saturday, April 13, 2024
April Showers
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Welcoming The New Into The Old
The garden that I've been envisioning is coming into its own now. April has seen lots of changes from the heartbreaking brown of winter to bursts of color as some of the perennials of the garden (along with transplanted starts) are blossoming. Well, some are blossoming while others are just debutantes.
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