In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/daily-prompt-4/

Write about a time you had a Goldilocks experience, exploring different choices and finally arriving at “just right.”

Sometimes I think my whole life is a Goldilocks experience.

But actually, I think in general people spend too much time (including me) wondering if there is a better choice out there, to the point where they either don’t choose at all and continue to wait, or do choose and then regret it for a long time after wondering if they made the right choice.

We need to find joy in what we have and stop going down the road to regret every time we make a choice.  Do I wonder if the other bee houses or the other hummingbird feeders would have looked better in our yard?  No.  Because what’s important is giving those mason bees a place to live and the hummers a place to get lunch.  Now, if only those bees would hatch and the hummers would come – I can hardly wait to post those pics!!

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/whoa/

What’s the most surreal experience you’ve ever had?

Surreal:  bizarre, having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream

I kind of want to answer this one – I must be dreaming.

So to fend off this disorienting, hallucinatory feeling, here are some pictures of the mason bee house I hung yesterday, complete with bee cocoons ready to hatch (thanks to Susan, my work colleague and friend who knows much more about bees than I!  She blogs at https://beeviable.wordpress.com/)  If I think of it later today, I may post something about mason bees – then I will also know more!

Little bee cocoons waiting to hatch!

Ok, this may not be of interest to any of you following Zombie Flamingos, but I actually have another blog.  It’s a work blog, but I’m the one who posts on it.

Now, the blog itself is focused on Distributed Education/E-learning at Camosun College, but I also post about online teaching and learning in general, so if that interests you, take a peek!  And if it doesn’t, no worries – I just wanted to put in a plug for it here.

So, if you want to check it out, it’s at https://decamosun.wordpress.com.  If not, we’ll see you here again at Zombie Flamingos for my next riveting post, whatever it may be!

Have a good Friday!!

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/fly-on-the-wall/

If you could be a “fly on the wall” anywhere and at any time in history, where and when would you choose?

Did you miss me?  Yes, I missed one day of the Daily Post (well, one day of me posting the Daily Post link and the topic, and then posting whatever I feel like posting on the day).  I wasn’t feeling particularly well yesterday, so it was a day off of blogging too.  I have to admit, it felt weird, but I got over it. I did take my daily pic for my Project 365 (it was of my mousepad – I did work at home yesterday and didn’t move much from my computer so it was just kind of there), but no blogging.  Well, I did compose a work blog to post today, but nothing here…

Anyway, enough rambling.  Now I’m back.  But for what? A “fly on the wall” anywhere at any time in history?  Here is another one of those questions that I would have a different answer for depending on when you asked, and how much time I had to think about it.  However, I give myself 20 minutes (at the most) to compose a Daily Post, and I’ve actually already spent those 20 minutes writing my pre-post paragraph, AND waiting for the Daily Post prompt to appear in my email.  So, my answer (at the present moment) is:  Amelia Earhart’s plane.  What do you think about that?

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/ha-ha-ha/

Tell us a joke! Knock-knock joke, long story with a unexpected punchline, great zinger — all jokes are welcome!

I’m afraid Wednesdays are no laughing matter…

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/32-flavors/

Vanilla, chocolate, or something else entirely?

Only mint chocolate chip.  Or, if it’s a milkshake, strawberry.  Nothing else.  I’m assuming ice cream or frozen yogurt.  There is only one flavour of albatross (Albatross!)  Anyone out there chuckling??

Now, here are some random things I saw on my walk yesterday:

Daffodils are still blooming!

Yesterday’s Project 365 theme was “markings”, so I was looking up close at a lot of things

I do love the way trees look at this time of year.

Randoms paths into a park – very wet (it pissed rain on Sunday)

And a final close-up

Elliot and Jasper as kittens, playing fort.

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/places/

Beach, mountain, forest, or somewhere else entirely?

How about in our car, watching the rain…

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/a-house-divided/

Pick a divisive issue currently in the news. Write a two-part post in which you take on two personas and approach the topic from both sides. Bonus points for a creative format (roundtable discussion, debate transcript, etc.).

No.  I don’t think I want to talk about divisive issues currently in the news late on a Sunday morning.  And two-part posts go against my blogging preferences, especially late on a Sunday morning.    A rainy Sunday morning, I might add.  Really rainy.  Not that I am complaining.  Rain is good.  As long as it doesn’t last for days and days.  Alternating with a little sun is good.  And that’s about as divisive as I’m going to get this morning.

And now, here are some pictures of things in our garden…I confess, I love garden ornaments and also like to have pots and other interesting things turned into pots (like old stoves and sink) dispersed throughout the gardens.  I am really hoping to get things even more sorted back there this summer (I have some cool plans).  I know it will always be a work in progress, but I am fine with that as long as it is also always fun!

In response to the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/i-want-to-know-what-love-is/

We each have many types of love relationships — parents, children, spouses, friends. And they’re not always with people; you may love an animal, or a place. Is there a single idea or definition that runs through all the varieties of “love”?

Single definition?  No way.  Today, I continue to love Kevin, our kitties, my parents, my brother and sister-in-law, Kevin’s sister and our niece and nephew, all my friends and relatives, various inanimate objects, living in Victoria, my job, the song “September” by Earth, Wind and Fire, any song by the Police, the book I am currently reading, pizza, the smell of baking bread even though I can’t eat it…well, you get the picture.  We all seem to love (and alternatively hate) a lot of things, both animate and inanimate – lists that are added to, and subtracted from, on a daily basis.  Talk about complicated.

No matter.  What matters today is that I love my new hair.