Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Last night I watched Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice on CNN. I had missed the chance to see it in the theater this fall when it came out, and am so glad I finally got to see it. By the end I was crying, I was so sad when I had heard in the last year that she could no longer sing because of Parkinson's Disease. I have been such a huge fan of hers for my whole life. Of course I can't begin to sing like her, but that doesn't stop me from singing along, and belting it out as best I can in the shower, or wherever no one else can hear me! 

Towards the end of the movie I started crying when Emmylou Harris chokes up saying that there will never be someone that sings like Linda, because those are my feelings exactly. Most of the people I've met that are younger than me seem to have little interest in the music from the not so distant past, and have never experienced, and have no appreciation, for just how amazing her voice is/was. 

It made me smile that the movie included a snip from her appearance on The Muppet Show - among others, she sang "The Shoop-Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss), something I always wished ended up on an album.

My favorite album is Hasten Down the Wind, and the song "Give One Heart", but I love it all, especially Canciones de Mi Padre, and the song "The Charreada", she could truly sing anything ♥

https://www.lindaronstadtmovie.com/

Hello 2020

Pearls Before Swine - January 1, 2020

But seriously folks...

2019 Christmas Tree

So I'm starting off the year with the hope that 2020 will bring wonderful new things. 2019 was a beyond busy year at work, which ended with me being laid off after 8 1/2 years, less than 2 weeks before Christmas. I was definitely very bitter to begin with, for many reasons, but I have slowly let it go, with the belief that I deserve to be somewhere that I am valued, and at the end, I wasn't.

I had a quiet Christmas with the cats, and today was the same - but today we had some beautiful sunshine for the first half of the day, and I appreciated it, and hope that is a good sign for the rest of 2020. I will be able to take a little "me" time for a short while, and I am looking forward to spring and hoping that wherever I land next work-wise I will be able to enjoy more of the summer than I did last year, and really for the last 8 years to be honest.

Boo

Munchkin

Boo & Tommy New Year's Day 2020

The Garden - July 2019

Bachelor Buttons

The flower garden continues to bring new things and the return of my favorites. The Bachelor Button seeds were actually planted last summer and didn't do anything, and then came in like crazy this spring along with the Larkspur. The California Poppies re-seeded themselves and came back in beautifully as well. The Dianthus came in stronger this year, and there are actually 4 different varities/colors in one pot for a extended burst of color. The thing I am most excited about is my first attempt at Gladiolus and they bloomed with one of my favorite colors, the beautiful coral red, and a lavendar/blue one is set to open soon too. As I type this there is a green Hummingbird feeding on the red Crocosmia on the side of my front porch, so much color happening right now!

Dianthus

Penstemon

Gladiolus

Spring Flowers May 2019

Russell Hybrid Lupine

 Long time no see (me). This continues to be a crazy year at work, and I have been working 6 days a week for I think almost two months. It has left me little free time and energy to be posting here, but I have been spending as much time as possible with gardening and starting seeds when I can.

I continue to try new things, some I have success with more than others, but I am becoming a big believer in direct sowing some seeds outdoors because I can't always manage to get seedlings strong enough to handle transplanting.

One of the funniest things that happened this spring is that I got a bunch of volunteer Larkspur that came up in the flower bed in back. The plants that I had started from seed indoor last year didn't do that great in 2018, but they re-seeded themselves and came in better, stronger and taller than all of the ones that I planted last year.

The other plant that didn't do anything when I planted seeds last year were the blue Bachelor Buttons, and several of them came up this year. Mind you, both of these are annuals. Go figure!

Clematis

Russell Hybrid Lupine

Begonia

Looking Forward to Spring!

Savage Chickens

Pickles

Pearls Before Swine 

Well, February was a really rough month to say the least. Here in Whatcom County we had overnight (and quite a few day time) temperatures below freezing for the whole entire month. As I right this there is still snow on the ground around my house and in piles around the county, accumulated from several snow storms from over three weeks ago. I joke that it was like having a Michigan winter all in one month. We also had several very strong wind storms, and the cause of most of this cold is air coming down from the arctic via the Fraser River Valley in British Columbia.

My neighbors lost a 50 foot+ evergreen, and my landlords had half of their 20 foot+ lilac bush split in half. I was so excited in January starting to see things show signs of life for spring, and now I'm wondering if any of the spring bloomers are going to survive this brutal cold.  The other fun was catching a cold at the start of the month that caused me to miss a few days work and total sapped my energy for at least two weeks. Like a lot of folks, I am really, really looking forward to spring and it warming up. I just started my first seeds this afternoon, my hope for the future, Cherry Rose Nasturtiums ☺ 

Cherry Rose Nasturtiums from Floret Flower Farm