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1 week ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
What’s your sign? Tell me yours, I’ll tell you mine.
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1 week ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
Most people I know are searching for ways to deal with the amount of stress that’s happening these days; financial worries, work-related issues, ever-changing social and political events, to name a few. I personally worry if my social security benefit will arrive each month, worry about the price of groceries, and trying to stretch what income I have. I also worry about my back porch sinking, and the trimming of my two giant mulberry trees and what’s eating my basil plants.
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2 weeks ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
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2 weeks ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
My neighbor set up a birding tour of Clear Lake on the Eyes of the Wild pontoon boat tours for her mom, brother, nephew and husband and she invited me along. The weather was perfect. It was exciting to get out on the water on such a calm, sunny morning. We all boarded the Eyes of the Wild pontoon boat and settled into the comfortable seats for the two-hour tour, with Faith as our captain and guide.
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3 weeks ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
I spent a lot of time and money this year on my two raised garden beds to grow vegetables. First thing I did was to order a 72-cell pack and a koi good soil mix for seeds. Without thinking, I chose seed packets that I wanted; basil, cucumbers, bok choy, sugar snap peas. WhatI forgot to buy were packets of zucchini seeds, and my most favorite – romaine lettuce. There was no thought about which vegetables make good companions for other vegetables.
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4 weeks ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
I missed the Eta Aquarid meteor shower that happened May 5-6. It takes preparation to stay up all night to see a meteor shower and I wasn’t prepared. You have to find a dark place that’s not bothered with streetlight or house lights. It has to be someplace safe, and you have to have something comfortable to sit on if you’re going to watch from midnight to sunrise. I saw my first meteor shower in November in the 1990s.
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1 month ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
Noodle, the white polydactyl mother cat especially likes the dirt. I’ve started calling her Dusty rather than ChubChub due to her eating everything. Or Noodle, her given name because when picked up she flops like a cooked noodle. Claire, Noodle’s daughter, another white polydactyl cat is too prissy to roll in the dirt. Sox is too old to bother, but Honey the youngest and most adventurous, definitely loves getting dirty. She’s black and white but lately she’s black and gray.
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1 month ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
Six years ago, I had a colonoscopy, and the doctor said I wouldn’t need another one for 10 years. I figured that at 80 years of age, I wouldn’t need one, I’d be too old. Well, my primary doctor ordered a Cologuard test for me. That’s a colonoscopy in a box. So much for getting out of that. I’m not sure why I need to have more tests of any kind.
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1 month ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
While driving to Clearlake I saw people fishing from the shore, people in boats fishing. It reminded me of how I always loved fishing. A couple of decades ago I even went to Mexico by myself to go fishing. As I boarded the airplane headed to Cabo San Lucas, I imagined what a thrill it’d be to catch a marlin. Approaching the Cabo airport, the plane banked and the Sea of Cortez below sparked like a giant turquoise fishbowl. It had been 20 years since I last visited Cabo.
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1 month ago | 
record-bee.com | Lucy Llewellyn Byard
I had not thought about Pope Francis dying, until he did. The world seems definitely emptier now, without him. HeLRB-Z-byard-0426-COL- championed the poor and marginalized, inclusion at the Olympics, climate change and many other issues.LRB-Z-byard-0426-COL-I went to Italy when Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. I went with my dear friend BFF who was/is a devout Catholic.
