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Piggles Again

February 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday I got a comment from TOM, the other Marcia, and she told me I needed a tablet and a stylus to draw. Since she is an artist, and I definitely am not, I decided to try it. V dropped me off at Best Buy, and they told me that I needed a Bamboo tablet. They were only $99.00, and I decided that would be worth the amount of entertainment I would get from it. So it came home with […]

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Categories: animals, art, Blogging, Featured Blog, pets • Tags: Art, artist, author, Bamboo, blogging, drawing, featured blog, Marcia Meara, tablet, Wacom, writing

Book Review: The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

January 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

This book, The Elephant Whisperer, kept me on the edge of my seat the entire two days it took me to finish it. Considering that I was reading it on my cell phone the whole time because my Kindle needs to be emptied before I can load any more books, it’s amazing that I even stuck it out. Out of forty-two chapters, there wasn’t a single dud. I read it because I was intrigued when someone wrote that when […]

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Categories: animals, art, Books, Common Core, Education, Featured Blog, people, Photography, science • Tags: Amy Share and Connect, book review, Common Core, conservation, Elephant Whisperer, featured blog, Greece, hiking, Italy, Lawrence Anthony, Marsha Lee, non-fiction, South Africa, Travel

Guess What This One Is

January 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

This is a puzzle. I personally think this is harder than my last guessing picture. You all did very well on that one, but now are you up to this challenge? Featured Blog I have accumulated so many blogs on my list, and some of them I never hear from, so last night I was rummaging through my list to find who I want to honor today. Low and behold I found him. GMan’s Galaxy. I’m blown away by George’s […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, Photography • Tags: Guess What This Is, http://thebatamonblog.wordpress.com/, legos, Marsha Lee, photography

Awards Made Easy

December 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

If you’ve been blogging regularly and faithfully for more than two or three weeks, you’ve probably received your first award. This post is primarily for NEW bloggers. Experienced bloggers don’t always stick by the letter of the Award Laws, but they have developed their own ways to responding to awards. This is my way. In my opinion, Awards are fun. Someone took the time to develop them. They are an invitation from someone who is reaching out and saying, “I […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, Featured Blog, Writing • Tags: awards, blogging skills, featured blog, Marsha Lee, Patricia Drury, Ralph

Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

December 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

I enjoy photo challenges because they always make me think. I don’t usually think about themes. I was surprised this morning when I was reading Russel Ray’s site that anyone could come up with enough pictures of chimneys, let alone the idea that the chimneys were Santa-unfriendly chimneys, and therefore the cause of undelivered gifts in Southern California. I am surprised at the creative thinking of others. Being basically self-centered my first thought was, when have I ever been surprised. […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, people, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Dianne Gray, featured blog, Lantern Post, photography, Robin Coyle, Russel Ray, Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

Romance in Tulare County

December 22, 2012 by tchistorygal

If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you’ll notice that several blogger friends are wanting to get together. Several have suggested that they want to come to Tulare County. I will just say that it’s a great place! Romance is in the air. You’ll be given lots of space So come to TC for your special romantic vacation. You can’t go wrong! Boyfriends or girlfriends are not provided!!! *******************************************************************************************************************Now for some serious business: I received a present of a book […]

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Categories: Books, California, Featured Blog, hotel, Travel, Tulare County • Tags: book review, hotels, Marsha Lee, romance, Travel, Tulare County

Day Trip In Search of Snow

December 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thank you Ivon for adding star number 5 to my blog of 2012 award. One more to go, and I’ve got them all. Thanks to all of you who have helped me accumulate 13,500 views on my site. We got up Sunday morning to absolutely sparkly blue skies, and cool temperatures. It was a perfect day for a trip to the mountains. I wanted to see snow up close and personal. In the summer here the weather changes very little, […]

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Categories: animals, California, Experience, Family, Featured Blog, mountains, parks, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: animals, Kaweah Lake, Marsha Lee, Pets, photography, puppies, Rumpy Dog, Sequoia National Park, Terminus Dam, Tulare County

flower with delicate pink tinged petals.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

December 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate functions, characteristics, or aspects. Here are some of my choices for the many meanings of delicate. How many of them might at the same time be surprisingly durable, hardy, vigorous or unyielding? 1. Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way, and 2. Very subtle in difference or distinction. With its […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, Photography, Resources, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: featured blog, Marsha Lee, photography, Sydney Fong, Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Christmas Sweater

December 16, 2012 by tchistorygal

When my first husband, Mark, went to Bible College, and worked, and worked some more, I worked at the college as a secretary, and had such fun with the other four secretaries that worked in the office with me. They were the ones that refused to bake me a birthday cake, but gave me the best birthday party ever. During the long, cold Colorado nights while Mark worked, my neighbor, Lois, labored to teach me how to knit. And finally […]

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Categories: Experience, Featured Blog • Tags: Crafts, Cycling Grandma, featured blog, knitting, Lisa Winkler, Marsha Lee, sweater

SUNDAY POST : Concept

December 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

Concept is hard to visualize. It can be anything and nothing all at the same time. Without concepts, we can work, and play, but we can’t do it sustainably effectively or with passion. Most of the time we think of concepts in terms of what is. A dog is an animal with specific characteristics. Addition is a concept of combining groups. Liberty and freedom are concepts that is not so easily illustrated. Which brings me to the point of my […]

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Categories: communication, Experience, Family, Featured Blog, Photography, Sunday Post, Tulare County • Tags: Amy, Coming East, Concept, humor, Jakesprinter Sunday Post, Marsha Lee, motivation, Russel Ray Photos, The World Is a Book

You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

December 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Featured Blog Who’s Renee? I started following Renee and her mom’s blog 6 month’s and 2 weeks ago, making her the 8th blog I followed. I followed her because she gave me one of my first awards before I even knew what an award was. Little did I know that this expert blogger was a mere 16 years old. Over the months I have gotten to know Renee a bit better, and found out that her birthday is on […]

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Categories: animals, communication, Family, Featured Blog, Photography • Tags: blogging party, Christmas birthday, fun, Marsha Lee, R and P Photography, Renee, The Odd One Out

Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

December 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I hated walnuts until I moved to Tulare County. We couldn’t have been relocated into a better place than when my first husband and I moved here August 1, 1985, a month prior to the beginning of walnut harvesting season. After about 3 months of blistering hot weather, and by that I mean temperatures of 105+ F or 40.55 C, walnuts are ready to come down from their lofty perches. We rented an old adobe house centered between two walnut […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, Experience, Featured Blog, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Agriculture, Algarve Blog, fall, featured blog, photography, Tulare County, walnuts

Book Review: Entertaining an Elephant

December 7, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thank you and congratulations to Larry Otter, the 30th “LIKE” on my new Facebook page, GOLD STAR! Thanks to the many others that also pressed “LIKE” Many of you are teachers, and many more of you have children, grandchildren, or at some point in time are expecting to have them. A few months ago I went to a Common Core Conference, at which Dr. Bill McBride presented strategies to help teachers implement Common Core Standards. His presentation style was just as […]

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Categories: Blogging, Writing, Common Core, Books, Education, Fiction, Featured Blog • Tags: Education, Marsha Ingrao, featured blog, book review, William McBride, Entertaining an Elephant, instructional strategies, Common Core Standards for Language Arts, Sierra Foothill Garden

Book Review: The Everything Theory

December 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

Dianne Gray became my blogger friend four months and three weeks ago now, and we have rallied blogger chit-chat back and forth between our blogs. As I read her blog the other day, I learned about her book, The Everything Theory, Browsing the comments on the post, I decided that I definitely wanted to buy the book. So I headed over to Amazon, made a few clicks, and started reading, and finally put it down because I had to sleep […]

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Categories: academic vocabulary, Blogging, Books, Common Core, Education, Featured Blog, history-social science, science, Writing • Tags: book review, Common Core Standards, Daine Gray, fiction, history-social science, Marsha Ingrao, science, teaching

Sunday Post: Peaceful

December 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

I thought about the ocean, but sometimes it is NOT peaceful. I considered farm animals, but they make a LOT of noise. Then, I looked around for something at home where I feel most peaceful. Who should be peacefully resting in my folder, but Mama Kitty? Granted Kalev is NOT peaceful. Every morning she charges out to see Mama Kitty, her body twisting and writhing with excitement. Amazingly Mama Kitty just stands waiting for her morning kiss from Kalev. Scardy could do […]

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Categories: animals, Featured Blog, Photography, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: animals, cats, dogs, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, Peaceful, photography, Richard Tulloch, sunday post

A Wig and a Promise

November 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

Earlier this week I was commenting back and forth with Autty Jade about the wig she is wearing in her new grivitar picture. One thing led to another, and I made her a promise to tell her the story about my wig. So here it is. I’m giving away almost the whole story, but I can’t write unillustrated stories. This WAS a wig, a fall actually because the front part of the hair is mine, but not THE wig. I […]

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Categories: Experience, Blogging, Featured Blog • Tags: Marsha Lee, featured blog, embarrassing moments, skating, Lloyd Center, wigs, falling, eternaltraveler

Sightseeing in Solvang, CA

November 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

Although Danes from the midwest established Solvang, meaning sunny fields, in 1911, it did not incorporate until 1985. I visited it for the first time ten years later as one of my first dates with my husband, V. In the summer it is just far enough inland that the quaint town suffocates its visitors at temperatures that reach into the 100s. On a sunny November day, like we had last week, it was perfect.I yelped for a place to eat, […]

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Categories: Blogging, Travel, animals, California, plants, Education, history-social science, Photography, architecture, Featured Blog • Tags: photography, Travel, CA, Marsha Lee, Solvang, featured blog, Danish town, Nodding Place Quilting, Solvang Brewing Company, JG Burdette

"Woah there baby. Wait for Mama!!! Watch out for that killer white dog!!"

Bob Jones Trail

November 28, 2012 by tchistorygal

Across the street cars packed into the tiny parking lot down the street from Bob Jones Trail. Children, bikes, old people, skaters, dogs, young parents with baby strollers all piled out of their cars and crossed the street. A quick stop at the doggie bag stop and their exercise routine starts. This trail has much to offer. It starts right down from Avila Barn on Ontario Road, stops at a little shopping area with a restaurant /quick market, real estate […]

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Categories: Experience, Travel, California, parks, Photography, people, Featured Blog • Tags: Avila Beach, bike path, Bob Jones Trail, featured blog, bottledworder

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Awards Made Easy

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Romance in Tulare County

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Day Trip In Search of Snow

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

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Christmas Sweater

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SUNDAY POST : Concept

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You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

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Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

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Book Review: Entertaining an Elephant

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