Tag: living
group name: ourneighborhoods
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March 16, 2008 03:29 PM EDT --
A few months ago, someone here on Gather recommended this wonderful sight called Care2. I go there every day and click. This helps the earth . . .
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March 25, 2007 03:07 AM EDT --
Today was the color of a whale. Air gray and thick as a fallen cloud. My childish exhuberance sunk lower than sea horse droppings as a marine layer enveloped the hours. We changed our . . .
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April 21, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
This morning we found a crow with a broken wing. It appears he has also been attacked. He's now in the pet carrier in our aviary. We have saved many doves and other birds. Last . . .
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April 28, 2008 11:10 PM EDT --
About two hours ago, the neighbor's grandson knocked on the door. He said his Grandma was upset because he and a friend had brought over two women to care for her. He wanted us to go . . .
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November 13, 2008 09:49 PM EST --
Greetings Folks...There's a fire behind us! We were sitting on our back patio and I could smell something burning. The wind was blowing. It's what we call Santa Ana winds. . . .
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April 28, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
Let the drama begin. Yesterday, I went to bring a plate of food to my elderly neighbor. The lady who was there goes oh good, we were starving. Then, she said in a whispered voice, that . . .
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January 01, 2008 01:39 PM EST --
My wise old daddy used to say, what you do on the first of January, is what you'll be doing the rest of the year. He said this as he opened his office door on January 1st, 1963. . . .
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June 04, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
Greetings Folks. A few days ago, I was up at Round Mountain exploring and hunting for trilobites. It was a nice hot day and we drove up just to tailgate and enjoy . . .
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November 08, 2008 08:24 PM EST --
Greetings my dear Gather friends. Once again, I am arriving from the bayou banks to the ocean shore. It's been a wonderful summer and fall. Winter finds me back here in Santa Barbara . . .
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April 14, 2007 04:34 PM EDT --
While thinking about the photo I saw here yesterday, the one from Texas with the blue bells and the rattlesnake, my daughter came to mind.
My beautiful 30-something daughter is the reincarnation . . .
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March 01, 2008 03:17 PM EST --
Greetings Folks. I received this letter from a friend of mine who had received it from her niece. It may save a life. Thank you for reading it. Salud..
Dear Friends,
I received . . .
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May 01, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
May is my time. I was born in May in the beautiful village of Barcelona, Venezuela. The month of May is a beautiful garden gate leading into months of flowering days. It is when my . . .
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November 09, 2008 10:20 PM EST --
It is 7:14. It feels as if it's about 10:30 at night. I dare not go to sleep too early or I'll be up for 3:30. Winter is throwing me off. I just don't have that energy . . .
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May 21, 2007 12:47 PM EDT --
A glorious Monday to all of you folks out there in Gatherland. I'm here in Eureka, Nevada enjoying the sacred sounds of the European starlings. They perch up in the old mahogany tree and . . .
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August 16, 2006 08:06 AM EDT --
Racism is alive and well today. And my family and I have been a victim of it. Guilt by association.
You see, for the past twenty years, we have lived in a black neighborhood. We bought . . .
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June 02, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
A glad good morning on this cement-hued Saturday. Where is the California sun? I look out of my window and see nothing but gray. Hopefully, things are better wherever you happen to be. . . .
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January 24, 2008 01:10 PM EST --
During my wonderful years at UCSB, I was lucky to have fabulous instructors. One of them was Rodrigo Duarte-Clark aka Roddy who taught a class called Chicano Theater. This was an acting class taught using . . .
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September 20, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Ok, where do you live and what is the current price for a gallon of gas? I am curious to see how much it differs from area to area.
I live in Southeast Missouri, and gas is currently $2.08/gallon.
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December 05, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
this past weekend, we were at my parents house. they live in an area with a lot of snow - lake effect, from lake michigan. it was gorgeous, white, and fluffy - the perfect way to kick off december! lillie . . .
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May 04, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
Isabel greeted us with warm hugs. Rain pelted down upon her new green roof. Soon, a fire burned. The next morning, her gardens greeted us. Purple hyacinths, yellow daffodils and . . .
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