Scenic Sunday--Statue

This was one of many statues at Belle Isle. I love looking at powerful expression of emotions from statue like this. No, not gargoyles though; they are too scary for me.


I am not quite sure if this was a ram or not. It is kind of difficult to tell when I can't see the face. If I remember correctly, this statue stayed in the circle of Belle Isle near where the zoo used to be. From the main road, you can actually make a turn and go to the zoo without circling around the island.


From this picture, you can tell that I had to look way way up, but still I can't clearly see the face. Maybe when summer comes around, I will have a better chance, but then again, maybe not, since with warmer weather there will be more people around too. I'm strange that way!

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Sky Watch--With a Robin

I don't know why but I have seen so many robins around here lately. The weather is still cold, and snowy, but robins come out in groups. They are fatter than I have seen them in the summer, and are not that scare to fly away when they see people.


There was a group of these chubby robins perching on the tree in the parking lot where I picked up the children from school. However, I only wanted to focus on just this one, and tried to avoid their bombs on my head.


I was looking for sky picture, but this robin came into sight, so I was distracted. Anyway, it still showed the beautiful blue sky in the back ground, and the robin was a bonus.


A few days ago, I saw another group of robin near home, all fluffy and chubby like this one in the pictures. They were tearing the dried flower branches along the fence and flied away. This ritual went on for a while.


Not only robins gathering dried branches, but squirrels too. I actually watched them struggling to pull the dried leaves and branches away from the fence. I'm thinking that robins are building their nests since Spring is almost here. Could it be?

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Wordless Outdoor Wednesday--My Dancing Queen

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Meeting Up

I am from a large family, and we are all over the country such as from Louisiana, Texas, New Jersey, and Michigan to California. With far distance like this, we hardly get to see each other. There are many nieces and nephews that I haven't even met yet.

When talking about a family reunion, it's even harder to decide where to meet up. However, since our mother is already in her 80, and live in California; we decide to round up at San Diego banquet rooms, where traveling will be at a minimum for our mom

The last time we got together weren't a pleasant one, but were with tears and sadness in saying goodbye to our dad. That sad memory stayed with us, thus we want to have a happy one with our mom this time.

Having decided on a place, we are now looking in our schedule to pick a day that would be best for everyone.

IVR Consulting for Small Business

My neighbor runs a small business selling healthy low sodium salt foods online, and in a store. Together with her husband, they try to make ends meet.

Since there are only two people working in the office, and one of them often have to go out on errands such as picking up the kids from school, or mailing out orders, or buying products; they both have to carry two cell phones every where they go. In their own words, "there isn't enough man power to go around."

It was the biggest problem for them, so they are looking into Small Business IVR Consulting to help with the many aspects of running a small store efficiently. It is not feasible for them to hire help since the nature of their business changes every day, and having an employee would only bring up many other expenses than what they need right now.

I am hoping that things would work out better for them and that they would find an answer to their dilemma.
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Yellow Dahlia

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We met in a classroom full of people
You, me, from the same sort of town
Like a magnet, the eyes fixed
And it was the moment lightening hit!

You shone like the sun on dark days
Lift me out under heavy rain cloud
Show kindness and a tender loving touch
Beautified the world all around

What was it that drawn us both
As we lingered in each other look
And each day pushed slowly forward
One step forth but then ten steps back
Then remained just looks between us
You stayed you, and I just am...

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Sky Watch--Hang Over

We were blessed this week, with beautiful sunny days, and blue sky. The white clouds were so white that you could even see them moving slowly by. Sometimes, the clouds stopped, and hung over the tree branches.


Now if the weather were a bit warmer, I would pull out my garden chair, sit and watch the sky with a glass of lemonade. But here in Michigan it was too cold for me to do so. I must move around to keep warm.


Looking through the bare branches became a joy for me now! I like it, and I am sure when the leaves grow back I would wish to see through the tree again. Just like when it is too hot, I wish for cooler temperature, and when it is too cold, I want warm sun light.


Just thought I show you my "hang over" clouds today, not the "hang over" that you were thinking. Lent season has just begun for me, and I don't drink so there will be no "hang over" on that part. I think I'm drunk just writing this post! (Rainfield's fault!)

Have a great Friday!

Courting

Lockers For the Gym Area

Last year, I signed my son up at a private soccer club since he outgrew the AYSO in our local area. He loves soccer, and I want him to have the opportunity to develop his skills. The price for a year is double the AYSO fee, but it was worth my effort.


We are now playing against other private clubs, which we have to travel to the other team's home turf some time, and it is wonderful to see that some of these clubs provide their players with individual locker to keep their personal things. These lockers are similar to those school lockers, and gym lockers, but the ones for the coaches are wooden lockers, which are quite impressive.

Our club is very new, and it is geared toward lower income families. We don't have our own place for holding winter games yet. The club mission is affordable prices at higher caliber for players. We currently rent two fields from the city for our soccer games during spring and fall.

As we grow, the official wants to acquire a building to hold games and practices for the players, especially during the winter. At such time, I'm sure they will also look into lockers for sale to put the finishing touch in the gym area.

Having Fun With Sports Betting

I have two lady friends that are absolutely into sports, especially football and baseball, which for me, I have no interest or glue of what is going on at all. Watching these games with them left me very frustrated. Baseball is too slow for me, and football is all about players piling up on top of each other.

Now, for those sport fanatics out there, don't be too fast in chopping my head off. I understand that football and baseball are American favorite pass time, but really, no one has ever explained the principles of the games to me in ways that I could understand. Everyone is talking in a foreign language such as fumble, stealing bases, or something else.


I get lost when my friend talked about sports betting! They listed out the numbers of win, lost, and tie of the teams they are betting on. I couldn't remember what I did yesterday, but they could recall the exact numbers, which I really admire and wish to have a young brain.

Seeing my frustrations when we hang out together, my friends suggested to me to check out this page online: How to Bet on Sports. From this article, I understand a few rules where you have to take things like injuries, weather conditions, and point differentiates/averages into account.

Though my friends don't use money for their sport betting games, but they do it for serious fun such as who would have to buy dinner or drinks when we get together. I have a bit more knowledge now, and maybe I will try to bet with them next time, but don't count on me winning anything with these ladies yet.

Yellow Sun Flower

This was my yellow sun flower from the summer. I guess I can't wait to get my hands in the dirt again. Once the flowers bloomed, we had plenty of visitors. The buzzing never seemed to stop.


I bought a bag of sun flower seeds, kept it over night in a dam paper towel, and planted them in our garden. They took root really fast and grew into these beautiful flowers.


This bag of seeds came with different colors of sun flowers, but the yellow ones were classic. These sun flowers were on a smaller size than others were, but they were amazing to have in our small garden.

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Scenic Sunday--Flowers Field

This was a beautiful field of red and yellow mums at the Conservatory. These photos were taken in late November. They probably changed these flowers already, but I didn't have a chance to visit it since.


These vibrant colors were just incredible to see. Walking into this part of the Conservatory was always a pleasant surprise. They had different flowers at different time of the year.


Hopefully we will have an early Spring, and I will get a chance to go back soon. For now, my archive is what keeps my memory alive.

Happy Valentine's Day!

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