2021 Calendars

Posted on December 31, 2020 by vanbraman

This year I again ordered my calendars from calendars.com. However, I had a little trouble getting them this year.

calendars.com, calendar, 2021, ordering on-line, barns, eagles, book shelvesI ordered early this year and didn’t think much about it until I received an e-mail asking me to take a survey on how I liked my order. That prompted me to go back through my e-mail and see if I had any shipping details. I checked and they had been shipped but they had never been delivered.

calendars.com, calendar, 2021, ordering on-line, barns, eagles, book shelvesThankfully they were able to ship me a replacement order, but one calendar was out of stock. They did credit me for the one out of stock and thankfully it was the one that was last on my list and had been added to get free shipping. To make sure they arrived they sent them 2nd Day for better tracking.

The calendars have been sitting near my entry for weeks now and tonight I got them ready for tomorrow when I will hang them up.

calendars.com, calendar, 2021, ordering on-line, barns, eagles, book shelvesI like to hang a barn calendar in my personal office (I have to say personal office now since I also have a work office space now). I like to look up while I am working and see a nice picture of a barn. Seeing barns always bring back some good memories of growing up in farm and ranch country.

calendars.com, calendar, 2021, ordering on-line, barns, eagles, book shelvesThe National Geographic Eagle calendar will be hanging in my kitchen. It has now been at least 13 years in a row that I have been getting this calendar. Eagles have great meaning to me and it is always nice to see the images when I am preparing meals or tea in the kitchen.

I usually buy an Elephant calendar, but again couldn’t find one I liked this year. However, the place on the wall where the Elephant normally hung is now taken by a painting my parent’s received as a wedding present many years ago.

calendars.com, calendar, 2021, ordering on-line, barns, eagles, book shelvesThis year I again bought a book related calendar. Perhaps this calendar full of pictures of bookshelves will give me some inspiration for arranging some of mine 🙂 I will hang it in my bathroom for now, but it could possibly get replaced.

For more than 20 years one of our service engineers has sent me a Hawaii calendar, and there is a possibility that one may be waiting at the office once we get back to work there instead of home.

What calendars do you have this year?

Steven

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When to Prune?

Posted on December 30, 2020 by vanbraman

It is winter time and that means it is time to think about pruning my roses.

pruning, roses, when to prune, rose buds, roses, yard workHowever, it is hard to think about pruning when I still have roses on the bushes.

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Not just roses, but also rose buds.

pruning, roses, when to prune, rose buds, roses, yard workThere is even new growth in some areas.

pruning, roses, when to prune, rose buds, roses, yard workHow can you bear to prune when they are so alive.

pruning, roses, when to prune, rose buds, roses, yard workSome of the rose bushes do not look like they will put out more buds, but I usually wait and prune everything at the same time. There are actually two rose bushes here. One is behind the other. They have been slowly going down hill and perhaps they are near the end of their life.

I did check and I usually do my pruning in late January.

February and March will be bleak months without any roses and then they will be appearing again. I guess I should just be thankful that I have roses for almost ten months of the year.

When do you prune your roses?

Steven

 

 

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