Thousand Word Thursdays #172

My front yard. Discover the beauty in your own gardens! Stay home, stay safe! © Rita Jacques 2020.    

On Turning Sixty!

Today is the last day I’ll spend in my fifties. It’s been an excellent decade. I crammed so much living into the last ten years that my head’s still spinning. Disaster-relief nursing, volunteering at a homeless shelter, the marriage of one daughter, and becoming a grandmother. Plus working as a nurse until my recent retirement…

Thousand Word Thursdays #171

These brilliant tulips were the first to bloom! © Rita Jacques 2020 My front yard.

Thousand Word Thursdays #170

© Rita Jacques 2020 My backyard–stay home, stay safe!

Are You Afraid?

“Can COVID live on newspaper? Should I be worried about reading the paper while I eat breakfast?”My hubby answered me, “It lives for three hours on paper. You could always burn the front page.”“No! That’s where the best news is—the updates on COVID!”“Or you could wait three hours.”“I don’t think so! I want to read…

Thousand Word Thursdays #169

After several years of no blooming and then mediocre blooming, my forsythia bush pulled out all the stops and is superb! Yay! © Rita Jacques 2020

Thousand Word Thursdays #168

Crocuses after the rain. They always look best freshly washed by Mother Nature. My backyard! © Rita Jacques 2020.