My Last day of September horoscope

Vague and undefined fears may make you tense and anxious today.
TODAY? JUST TODAY???

Don't feel scared for unknown reasons and try not to take unnecessary tensions upon yourself.
OKAY! THANKS FOR THE TIP!!! I'LL TRY!

After all, at this time there is probably no foundation for them.
JUST THIS TIME? JUST TODAY???

Autumn, is that you?

Two days cold and rainy.
That means autumn is really here.
The trees are still green.
Someone needs to tell the trees it's time.
Don't make me do it. Please.

Light thru the looking glass

I read an article on refractographs (photos of light reflections) so I tried a quickie. I actually tried two. The second one (that I will not show) is just as amazing!
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Kind of crappy and/or boring but so much for a first try. Oh, and the light isn't thru a looking glass but a cocktail glass. Maybe (just maybe) there will be more to come.

Patriot Birthday Day

Today in 1722 Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. An American revolutionary patriot, statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Or you may know him from The Boston Beer Company.

The biggest gainer

More garden posts: so I planted this thing called pineapple sage (click for post) back in May (or was it April?) and although it doesn't taste like sage and didn't sprout any pineapples it did win the biggest grower award. That's a lot of something I don't know what to do with. What kind of cocktail can you make out of pineapple sage?
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My own private Idaho

It was spud harvest day today and I found that your spuds should be sown earlier than Memorial Day-ish. They sprouted near the end of June (click for post) and were in full green growth by the end of July (click for post). But today I found the spuds were sparse.

Still YUMMY though.

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FOUND in my closet

I sent this picture into Found.com back in March.
To my surprise it was posted today with many interesting comments!

Click here:
http://foundmagazine.com/2009/09/cocktail-and-cigs/










        Here's the pic if the link doesn't work:

What happened to Tuesday?

All day I thought it was Tuesday. But it's not. It seems to already be Wednesday. What happened to Tuesday? Now looking at my posts I see one from said Tuesday. Now I remember it. I remember it was the beginning of fall. That's probably why I blocked it out of my memory. That or the bottle of wine I drank last night. Mmm... cheap cabernet... nothing better than that to celebrate the start of autumn. I suppose I should have celebrated with an Octoberfest brew BUT I didn't!

Autumnal Equinox

5:18 P.M.
Marking the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
The sun crosses the equator.
The ecliptic and the celestial equators intersect.
The day and night are approximately equal length.
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NOW it's time for Octoberfest!
Bring on the autumn beers!
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Good things come to an end

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When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
(Sarah Helen Whitman)
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Did you say Dinosaur?

In a search for more dinosaurs around town

I came across Dinosaur Hill

during my bike ride along the Paint Creek Trail.

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Further investigation of the "Hill" did not produce any dinosaurs.

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I did however encounter what at first I thought was a young tyrannosaurus that jumped out of the brush right in front of my bike but turned out to be just a deer.

Avast, me hearties!

Yarr, it's International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Get out 'n celebrate wit' a mug 'o spiced rum on th' poopdeck.

.A extra interestin' thin' I discovered this day while readin' 'bout scurvy pirate speak be that on Facebook "Pirate" be a selectable speak under settin's! Yarr!

Park at own risk

We really need MORE dinosaurs around town!

This dino caught with my cell.

We the people

Today in 1787
the United States Constitution was signed.

aka Constitution Day.

Clinton River

The Clinton River Trail. Another biking experience of almost 10 miles in one direction. What happened to the loop concept?

This trail didn't have an archery range ten feet from the path BUT it did have a prehistoric beast along the way!

(Click on pic for better view)

AND ONLY IN MICHIGAN would you come across this:

It's a Tuesday afternoon

Released in 1967 and played in my house until the needle wore through the vinyl. Not by me of course. I was a bit too young to work the record player.

Paint Creek

Back once again to the park of yesterday's post but this time to ride the Paint Creek Trail. It's advertised as 8.9 miles. But THEN you have to turn around and ride 8.9 miles again back to your car.

17.8 total miles and only road through one pile of dog crap!

Still no fall colors (since fall isn't for 8 more days!)

Stay on trailway! Keep head down!

(Click on pic for better view)

To swim or not to swim.

Back about 3 1/2 weeks ago I took this picture in a local park thinking it was a bit funny that you could drown as depicted here in this raging river of about 1 1/2 feet of water. I understand that one can technically drown in just an inch of water (or something like that) but this river is so shallow that I found a bit (teeny-tiny-bit) of humor in the sign of the stick man with water up to his armpits. SAFETY FIRST IN THE SUBURBAN PARK!!!

TODAY I returned to the park of the drowning sign to find not a stick man but the second largest art festival in the state. The 44th annual Arts & Apples Festival. This is my second annual visit. Also my second visit total. But I took no pics and I saw no apples. You would think there would have been apples everywhere!

Siamese carrot found

You think my property was once the site of a nuclear incident?

Wither starts

Rudbeckia hirta starts to dry and shrivel as if it's the start of the autumn season.
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Or just in need of some water since it's been summer like warm still.
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Probably a little of both?
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And it's
Patriot Day!
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I knew it was 9/11 but I didn't realize it had a new name. Is the name new or is This is Eric's Blog just behind on the times? They kind of sneaked a new celebration in on me and I almost missed it. Sorry! But Google missed it too so THERE!
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As I look further I see the day was designated as a holiday in December 2001 by that last Republican President. I must have blocked out those eight years.

Cute with Eric too

No more Michigan State Fair pictures is what I told myself after yesterday's post. I figured three days was enough. On to different things I told myself. But I forgot that I had sent a synchronized sleeping pigs pic to Chris Leavins who publishes the infamous blog Cute with Chris, exploring the ugly side of cute, for the synchronized sleeping category. Either my brilliant pic of pigs sleeping side by side or my sad sad story of the Michigan State Fair coming to an end caught his attention.

Click here:
http://chrisleavins.typepad.com/chrisleavins/2009/09/synchronized-sleepers-1.html

     

      Here's the pic if the link doesn't work:

No cats? How about Fair Animals

Today is 9/9/09 - so here are 9 things:
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1 - Is there any significance, really? It's just another day here at This is Eric's Blog. Some say the world will come to an end today. I better hurry up and post this just in case!
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2 - Since cats are known to have 9 lives (and today being 9/9/09) it has been declared "A Day Without Cats Online." I wonder if it's only today or every 9/9 regardless of year.
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3 - On this day in 1850 (NOT a 9/9/09) California became the 31st state.
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4 - Update: I'm done wondering about #2 since I never post pics of cats anyway. Well except for the zoo pics and those are big cats.
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5 - Today is the last repeating single digit date until 1/1/11. (Do not confuse it with 10/10/10... which I think I like a lot.)
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6 - There used to be 9 planets in our solar system. Sorry Pluto.
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7 - Two weeks until fall, or Autumn as some call it.
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8 - I forget what eight was for.
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9 - Here is a collage of State Fair Animals due to the no cats rule:

All State Fair pictures from the last three days were taken with an ever-more-portable Sony Cybershot P200 that fits in a pocket.

Day after Fair

Nothing at all like a State Fair corn dog!

The gift that keeps on giving...

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delicious-

ness

Laboring

It's a holiday!!!

A yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

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and looks like today is also the LAST day ever for the Michigan State Fair which has been held every year since 1849. Too bad we can't help out a fair like we bailed out all the poorly run banks and auto companies. Just saying...

The end all ready? part 2

Saw a lot of squirrels scurrying around
and gathering nuts today.

They must not have gotten my memo
from yesterday yet.

The end all ready?

I'm not ready! I'm officially delaying the end of summer. Sure, go ahead and keep on with all your Labor Day Weekend celebrations but stop calling it the end of summer! The autumnal equinox isn't for another 17 days and I'm going to try to get that pushed ahead.

The other Ford's place

As I was planning on posting this in the category "How do I not know about these things?" I wondered into the first garden and then remembered that I HAVE been there.

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The Henry Ford Estate, or "Fair Lane". Sitting on the Rouge River this is a modest sized estate in comparison to what I've been visiting.

I once attended a wedding just beyond these garden gates.

Ecolo - Goddess of Earth

Who is this sweet maid who stoops
protectively to save the earth
from man's pernicious tread?

It is the blithe spirit of ecology
by whom all life and natural
things are fed.

Leave the house and forget something again? Never fear! At times a cell phone can take a pretty darn good pic!

VIRGO - The Perfectionist

Dominant In relationships.
Conservative.
Always wants the last word.
Argumentative.
Worries.
Very smart.
Dislikes noise and chaos.
Eager.
Hardworking.
Loyal.
Beautiful.
Easy to talk to.
Hard to please.
Harsh.
Practical and very fussy.
Often shy.
Pessimistic.
from the Body Mind Spirit Guide


But also a DRAGON............................................

Passionate.
Robust.
Short tempered.
Stubborn.
Popular.
Fun loving.
Life full of enthusiasm.
Love to indulge in gossip.
Good gambler.
from Buzzle.com-Chinese Astrology Characteristics

Dodge's place

Last week I had two posts under the subject

"How do I not know about these things?"

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In a somewhat similar subject is today's

"Why have I never been here (and I knew about it)?"

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Meadow Brook Hall & Gardens

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There's even a little cottage up on a hill...