First thing this morning (about 11 am) I was greeted by the neighborhood turkeys. They were flying one by one onto our roof. But by the time I got my clothes on, the were on my neighbor’s roof.

Today was a beautiful day. The sun was out for a good part of it. It was also warm–in the 50s I think. These are the flowers in bloom in my garden today.

This is the spirea outside the kitchen window. Most are gone, but there’s a surprising number of bright pink blooms, and more of the slightly older pale pink blooms.

This is kind of odd looking. It’s a top view, up close, of my swan planter. That’s he neck at the top. The forget-me-nots are gone, but everything else is still here.

I have two small dahlias in front. one. One had a few blooms, but this one bloomed and bloomed and is still blooming.

This rose was in bud most of the month of November. We had a few frosty nights and I didn’t think it would be this pretty! I love yellow roses tinged with pink.

See how beautifully blue the sky is?! I dug this out and put it in the pot the day before the hottest stretch of days this summer. It looked totally dead. I cut back the branches some more, hoping the roots were still alive. A couple of weeks later it was green again and soon after started blooming again. Each flower is between a quarter and a fifty cent piece in diameter. Its called Fairy Rose. These are hardy little floribundas and I totally get why it’s often used as groundcover on highway dividers and slopes.

This is another Fairy Rose. It’s literally just a stick I stuck into the dirt. It was a branch that I cut off the other one (because it was in the pathway and kept catching my clothes). I think it’s rooted already.

The rose on the bottom has barely changed in the last three weeks. Except that there are less petals in the center. As for the one at the top, this photo is deceptive.

This is how it looked on November 25.

This is how it looked today.

The last photo is my autumn rhodie. Actually, it blooms both autumn and spring sometimes. My pink rhodie is strictly a spring bloomer, so that’s why I call this one autumn. It’s really prettier than the photo shows, but it’s definitely at the end of it’s bloom time and the flowers aren’t in prime condition.

The Ta Da! list:

• Wash dishes
• Bring out outside lights. I even got them hung on the eaves. But once up, one string that worked in the house in now out, so I’ll need to check it again, but the next 3 days are busy! So Thursday, if I get home early enough, or Friday. (Hey! Last year they didn’t get put up at all.)
• Change autumn/Thanksgiving decorations for Christmas — well, I took the autumn stuff down.
• Work on Iqbal’s sweater (crochet) –Just a little

My sister stopped by at about 2 pm, so I didn’t do as much as I could have, otherwise. I did hang the lights while she was here, but then made the mistake of sitting down and talking. Then, Iqbal got sick at about 3:30. It’s really weird how his stomach just revolts out of the blue, with no warning. He was fine until then, and after his stomach emptied and he had a nap, he was fine again.

I just finished getting the dishes done at about 11:50. And since I never get to bed much before 4 am anyway, I’m considering going down to my sewing machine. But maybe not.

Still on the To Do list:

• Wash dishes (permanent item)
• Tidy living room (permanent item)
• Clean the bathroom (permanent item)
• Work on Christmas gifts
• Make Christmas decorations
• Bring out outside lights
• Cut back done plants in garden
• Change autumn/Thanksgiving decorations for Christmas
• Wash deck door & windows!
• Vacuum
• Mop
• Work on Iqbal’s sweater (crochet)
• Finnish Iqbal’s sweater!
• Mend gray sweater
• Mend cream sweater
• Make a dress!!
• Put away clean clothes (permanent item)

I get that the ambient noise of the furnace, fans, the refrigerator, and probably the lamps, though much less noticeably, trigger my brain to try to understand the sound and that music is what it comes up with. (Why I hear music no one else hears.) But why is it sometimes more like hearing a movie in the next room? Just now (2 am) I heard a woman’s voice, like she was yelling at someone–not so much yelling as talking sharply. Then it was gone. It definitely did not come from outside. Hearing that made me realize that I haven’t heard any music in a few days, but now I’m hearing it again, but much, much quieter, farther away sounding that it was before.

Right now my pathetic excuse for typing cannot possibly keep up with my thoughts. I always wonder if I’m hearing something that was here, or maybe will be here. I really believe that every when is now and every where is here. Saw a short video on string theory the other day. String theory says basically the same thing. Ultimately everything is reduced to strings of vibration. Apparently all that exists are these vibrations and consciousness (us). The video connected it to Schrodinger’s conclusion about his cat and entanglement and how everything is what it is because of those vibrations interacting and our consciousness interpreting. Even though I can’t explain it and certainly don’t have a physicist’s understanding, somehow it all makes sense to me. Anyway, if everything is really all here and now, it also makes sense to me that sometimes, perceptions don’t follow the “rules” of spacetime and maybe I am hearing something from another time in space. As if tonight my perceptions crossed to when/where a woman was speaking sharply to someone, but as I became fully aware, they got back on track. Doesn’t explain the music, of which I am fully aware and still hear, or the “movies” I hear from the next room (recognizable because of background music–more often like old movies had, that obviously indicated various things–danger, revelation, fear, etc.) even though there are no movies, no TV, no radio and usually no people in the next room.

Is it any wonder I rarely get to bed before 4 am??