Posted by terrepruitt on November 5, 2021
I was looking through pictures and this made me happy. There was a bed and breakfast in Santa Cruz (sort of) we used to stay at. I loved that place. It was so clean and so peaceful. It was near the ocean cliff so you could sit on the porch or on the deck upstairs and see the ocean. Ahhhhh.
This was the bathtub in one of the rooms.
This picture is so old it was taken with one my first digital camera which decided everyday was January 1, 2002.
Bathtub Fish for my Friday Photo today.
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Posted by terrepruitt on September 4, 2020
So, it is good that I have a lot of photos that I would like to share because I am not going anywhere. And, of course, there are always cats. But this one is from when my friends were in the area staying at an AirBnB in July of 2019. The yard was so fun I took many pictures. I have posted a lot of them for my Friday Photos.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 16, 2019
Oh, I love blue and I love calla lilies, so you can look at this and know that I love it! This is another lovely thing in the Airbnb yard in Capitola, near Santa Cruz. It was a gorgeous day and there were so many things to observe . . . there’ll be more pictures.
A pretty plate for my Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 9, 2019
Here is another way to display the pretty bottles you have. This is in the same yard as the Colorful Bottle Tree.
There was so much to look at in this yard. I was enjoying looking at it and taking pictures. So there will be more Friday Photos of this fun yard in Santa Cruz/Capitola! I really loved these bottles because they are blue!
This is bamboo, right?
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Posted by terrepruitt on July 19, 2019
Some friends visited from out of town and stayed in Santa Cruz not far from the ocean. I have many photos from the delightful yard that I will be posting. It was a colorful and very fun yard!
Here is a bottle tree for the Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on August 10, 2018
This made me laugh. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has a roller coaster called the Giant Dipper. This pictures was from a long time ago.
A beer for today’s Friday Photo.
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Posted by terrepruitt on March 5, 2018
I’ve been blogging for a long time. At least I think it is a long time. I know there are people out there who have been blogging for even longer, but to me nine years is a long time. In fact this month is my nine year anniversary to the blogging world. I started in March of 2009. Well, since I have been blogging so long and not all of you have been reading my blog that long, I thought I would point out some posts that you might be interested in. Keeping in mind the comments I have received and the conversations I have had with some of you. Also keeping in mind your blogs, here are a few posts that I thought I would point out in case any of you might be interested.
This is one about an amazing product that helps me with my bumps and bruises. Some of you may be interested. The product is Zheng Gu Shui.
Foam Rollers are COOL! is a post about two stretches that you can do with a foam roller. Many of us need to stretch more often and many of us love it when we do. These are super easy ones some of you may like.
I teach Nia, you may have heard :-). One of the things I love about Nia is that a lot of our practices within the practice can be applied to life. Here is a post about Sustain, Increase, Tweak, we do it in Nia while dancing and it can easily be applied to our every day life.
I LOVE to watch birds taking a bath in our bird bath. We used to have blue jays that would come back every year to have their babies near by. One time I got a few photos of a baby taking a bath. Even though he may look big, he is a baby. The young ones usually look larger and fluffier than the adults. Pictures do not capture the joy this bird seemed to be experiencing! This post has is about a Baby Blue Jay Bath.
Hummingbirds’ beaks are not straws they suck through, they actually have really long tongues. You can see that in my Hummingbird Tongues post.
More for the bird lovers: Silhouettes
For the dog lovers: Honey, I Shrunk the Doberman Pinscher
The comments on this one are worth a read, Lyrics Gone Wrong. Too funny!
Some nice shots of a beach trip. Do you wanna see the ocean? Check out my post Santa Cruz, California
Ahh, this one I am posting just to remind myself . . . . I need a color for that! Color Me A Reminder
Ok, sorry, I have shared more than I was planning, because I want you to look at all of them, but ten might be too much. I might just have to do another post somewhere along the way to point out some of my old posts that might be of interest to you. And get them some love.
Thanks for taking a look.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: baby birds, blogging, blue jays, Debbie Rosas, exercise, Foam rollers, humming bird tongues, humming birds, life practice, min pins, Nia, Santa Cruz, workout, Zheng Gu Shui | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 24, 2017
The weather was great in Capitola yesterday, Thanksgiving 2017. The past two years we have been going “over the hill” (that is what we call it because we have to drive over a hill) for breakfast on Thanksgiving. The first year was easy. The second . . . not so much as we couldn’t find any place open that we wanted to go to. But we ended up where we didn’t know that we wanted to be and it was fine. This year all the places we called were not open, but we found a place serving breakfast anyway and it worked out ok. It was not hot nor cold. The temperature was great. But it was so bright, I couldn’t see to take pictures. I did take a few anyway . . . but I didn’t really know what they looked like. They turned out ok. Here is one shot from Twin Lakes for the Friday Photo.
Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 18, 2016
Well, let’s get back to it with a Friday Photo.
This is just a lovely shot (I think) from a trip to the ocean for my birthday a couple of months ago.
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 24, 2016
It has been a couple months now, but I kept forgetting to post about it – but now I remembered. I am not an expert at essential oils. I don’t think to use them all the time for everything. I know there are people who use them for everything. I think that is great. I do think to use them sometimes, but not all the time for everything. And it has been months since I used lavender oil and coconut oil to soothe a burn. In August when I went to Santa Cruz, it was overcast on my side of the hill, so I didn’t think I would be getting that much sun. I did put on sunscreen, but I didn’t reapply it while I was there because it turned out, it was overcast there too. I was out too long for what I had applied. So when I got home my chest and forearms were red. I wanted some relief from the heat. I thought about essential oils. I thought I had seen that they can be used for sunburns. If you look it up, they can. There are a lot of different recipes for sunburn relief. Some have more than one oil, but I just opted for lavender oil and coconut oil.
I put a little, like a tablespoon of coconut oil in a little pinch bowl and then about five drops of lavender oil. I mixed it and put it on my chest and forearms. It was fragrant relief. It seemed to cool the burn down right away. I like it. I applied it one more time that same day. Then just two more times. Not only did it take the heat away, it moisturized it and kept it from getting flaky and peeling.
So, simple lavender oil and coconut oil. I am going to assume you can use whatever carrier oil that you usually use and it would work.
A couple of days ago I was hanging up some of our hummingbird feeders and I used oregano oil to keep the ants off it. That was really cool. I poured it on the hanger, then walked outside holding the hanger. Well, some of the oil got on my fingers. So then I wiped the oil on the S hook that holds the feeder. And I watched as the ants approached it then turned around. So then I wiped the oil on the tower where the S hook was hanging and the ants did the same thing there. They started towards the oil, but turned away from it as soon as they were close enough to touch it. Interesting. I wish it had some staying power. It tends to dry up rather fast. But it works for a little while. I am not sure that once it is dried, if the residue keeps the ants away. But it was fascinating to me to see them turn away.
What is your essential oil recipe for sunburns? Do you use essential oil to deter insects?
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