Let Me Entertain ME. ha ha ha

  How did I get to my AGE and not know there are digital meat thermometers?  I love this thing. Did you know you can hold it out in your hand and it gives you the temp in the kitchen? I had fun, it was bright sunshine, 42 degrees, and the house was cold in the bedroom, hot in the kitchen because of the sun. I walked the new gadget to the bedroom, 72 degrees, by the TV in living area 74, kitchen 78 and standing by the sliding glass door was 80.

Feb 1, 2026

Speaking Of Let Me Entertain me, I spent an hour watching from the  picture window on the world in living room, three FPL Power trucks, replacing the line from the pole to the house across the street.

5 men, three trucks, 4 men in white hard hats, 1 with a yellow one. I discussed with Bob whether he thought the yellow was the boss, since he climbed the pole.

We discussed if the little guy was a man or a woman and he/she was tiny and did all the hard work, dragging the limbs to the chipper and tossing them in.

This was the most excitement we have had since the people moved out of that middle house, the one we called the house of 7 cars. we miss them.

Just in case you are wondering how I could see the men, with the trucks in the way, I ran from one side of the window to the other, to see past the trucks and then into the bedroom that gave the view of the backyard of the house they were working on

OOPS Window On the World on 11/22.2025

 

TIME TRAVEL WITH ME, created 11/22/2025 found in drafts.

We were watching a movie, and I glanced out the window to see if it was dark enough I needed to close the blinds, and above is what I saw, I stood up and pushed the cell phone against the glass and Bob, said

"WHAT are you taking pictures of NOW?" as in the middle of a movie.

This post has been bumped every day since Nov 22, today is the day cause I got nothing else.

and then on 12/01/2025

I jumped up in the middle of  a movie and ran out the front door and came back with this...

The Neighbors are in decorating mode.. Bob did not even ask because I shoved it in between his nose and the TV and said LOOK. He was not impressed.

it must be the Sandra Claus in me! I am loving the world outside my Window on The world...

Christmas past/something red and Santa

Christmas Past with Angel Jake, please Mama stop and let me in PLEASE.

Son Dan sent me this in a text. there house on Christmas Eve.

He Smacked Our Trash Bin

  Traffic whizzes by our house, 40 to 50 mph even though the speed limit is 30.  A few years ago a jeep, turned upside down in our side yard. When I hear tires screeching I check it out and hope a car is not headed in through our window on the world

Screeeeeeeeeeeech of tires, I race to window. Just in time to see a black GMC Truck stop with tires smoking. He rammed it in reverse and smoked the tires backwards into our driveway, and BAM! the side of his truck hit our green trash bin and turned it on its side, 

He did not even stop, but raced off back the way he came with tires smoking. I was thinking about road rage, and guns and stuff like that.

I am still describing what I saw to Bob......I hear the truck before I can see it, tire burnout, just out of sight, I know its the same truck, and stand waiting to see, he blast by the house at least 60 mph 

and he is dragging a flat bed  trailer that was not on when he backed in our yard.

I surmised that he was ticked off because the trailer came loose as he sped out of the four way stop signs 6 houses down from us and had to go back and get it. I could hear but not see, him backing and moving forward with smoking tires and in My Minds Eye, see his fury at his own stupidity of not hooking it up properly.

I describe all this to Bob, and may have ranted about now I have to figure out how to stand it up, I can hardly push it on its wheels, now its turnedoverandwhatwillIdooo? I CAN"T STAND It UP and Bob could if he could STAND !

Dear Bradenton City Trash truck driver, thank you for turning it upright and making my world right again. Thank you for driving a truck and riding with the smells and dealing with the people who put wrong things in the trash and for the men hanging on the back, jumping off and on the truck in rain and lightning storms, clinging to a smelling truck in HIGH HEAT FLORIDA, with flies and bugs and  poopy diapers and dead animals and on and on, it a horrible Job and you do it well. Forgot dog poop in bags, ugh.

We should all appreciate the people who do the dirty hot and hard work for us to live our lives comfortably. 

below are the also AI that gave me a laugh. Maybe it was my southern accent?

Wordless Wed from our Window on the World

 

The view from our living room window was so beautiful, I took the cell phone on the front porch. and Snapped and Snapped and Snapped...

our drought is not hurting the trees that have long roots, the grass you can't see is fried but who need green grass with sky like this?

Unicorns In Our Neighborhood 🦄🦄🦄

The sound of rap music and car horns blowing, coming from the home where the Jazz band lives ( 2 men, 1 girl and a grandmother), had me rushing to my window on the world and with cell phone in hand, rushing out on the porch in my flannel gown.

Two men in their late 20's live in the house with their grandmother, the mens mother turned 50 and was gettin down with 6 unicorns. One unicorn waved a sign that said Honk for 50, another held a sign Happy 50th. No wonder cars were honking, I would have but was busy racing for the Nikon to get a better photo

Above photos by cell and below by Nikon Zoom and the video at the end was cell, the gif was done in Google photos.

Mama was dancing with each unicorn  while sons and hubby and grandmother took family photos.

Yes, i have more pics but kept these and deleted the rest

More fun through my window on the world

Hope! just outside our Window on the world

 

The view on 11/09/2024 at 4:38 pm out our Window on the World. Bob said what are you doing, when stopped drawing on the iPad and stood it on the window sill. I said LOOK isn't it gorgeous out there?

Like nothing every happened 5 weeks ago, he just shrugged.

I SEE thing he doesn't see. I looked up from my nonsense doodling and thought Wow!

I even love the one below. you can see reflections because I had to tilt the iPad away to get the Aqua and Yellow House. To me they both say JOY, he doesn't like them. Even with the post just propped and waiting for repair, our view is beautiful.

The bush in the photo is our bougainvillea, the bobcat backed over it, smashed it flat. and six weeks later, Resurrection! I sprayed it with water twice and Kaboom, it's growing like a weed

mean while in the BACKYARD Woo Boy! I am NOT complaining, just dumping more Hurricane Milton photos. I know how blessed we are!

It is only a fence! Not a life! It can be repaired! A life can not!

On 2nd thought, replaced is a better word than repaired. ha ha

I got the white fence off the neighbors curb pile to use as a blockade. we will do that this coming week.

Today I am Thankful

 

I never know where my mind will go or what I might think of or write about.

I stood staring at my back yard through the  kitchen window, making my mixed berry smoothie in the Bullet Blender, and realized I love looking out our windows when the sun is shining. 10 am is the perfect time to view.

I am thankful for our home, our views from our windows and for my bullet blender.

I love Gods Color wheel that paints our yard day by day

I am also thankful for my creative mind that is always ON and running and makes me see while turning , the fruit bowl and thinking primary colors of fruit.

My brain  hops and skips from thought to thought.

my brain skipped while I sat sipping my smoothing and the next thing I knew, I had found a color book page online, dumped it in the iPad to see if I could paint the box. 

I could and I did. I can drag and drop colors, I can color with crayons or charcoal or paint with water colors, or oil  paints.. its all there 

I just need to drive the brain to tell the hands what to do

Joining Brian's Home for Thankful Thursday

I am deeply thankful that a friend, Bev Whitcomb, told me way back in 2008 that she had a blog and sent it to me and brought all of you into my life.

I learned how to put a new pallett of colors in Procreate using a color wheel found on WWW

More colors to paint with.

Window World Continued

 

This is the veiw through my Window on the World looking to the East, the next two are from the window looking west to the house that took down three trees, see prior post 

  

See the gap over the house to far left, there were three trees there until they were removed for just in case hurricane scenario.. The tree in the center is our golden rain tree, and yes we love the dead half and it is there for the birds and squirrels and provides us with much entertainment. Yesterday we watched 2 young teen squirrels use the dead limbs like a jungle gym. they chased each other over and under and through the dead limbs and one of them fell from the third limb up but caught himself on the bottom one. cue loud laughter. that is what we did. We were watching Country Music Festival and the squirrels won out over the entertainment. The house with the white SUV is the House of Seven Cars that is now the house of Eight cars. The yellow house is the crazy lady who walks her dog in mid day on hot pavement and leave poop in peoples yards and the aqua is the house the idiots burn stuff in their back yard and tie the dog out and let him bark. I came close to going over there to see why the dog was crying. The aqua house is also the one that will be blasting the neighborhood with Fireworks for the next two days

Window World, Tree Man Cometh

 

Hearing the roar of large machinery, I rushed to my Window On the World and behold there was my entertainment for two whole days. The Bucket truck was there, the big black truck was there and as I watched and pondered out loud to the man in front of the TV, I heard a really loud BEEP BEEP Beep and out of the back of a 3rd truck that is behind the palm in the corner, came the most adorable machine i have ever seen.  Sadly I had no cell in my hand because this was sudden. they drove the bucket truck into the back yard, after taking down part of the fence and the limbs started falling like rain and in 2 days they took down 3 giant trees. Mean while the cute little claw with treads not wheels had disappeared back out of my sight. Clicking on photos will give more details

Later in the day I sat in my chair and watched this little treaded guy bring load after load and dump it in front of the big black truck. The Man On the Ground was pitching the wood in a very loud chipper. The man in the claw and the man up the tree in the bucket and the man on the ground under the tree, Four men In all were working like worker Bees in 98 degree heat. 

Soon the thunder boomed three times, the man was in the bucket, the guys were on the ground and then it started to rain. the man got out and was standing in the rain with arms spread out saying AH.

I said to the man in front of the TV behind me, he is waving his arms, calling out the the thunder, here i am, strike me now.

They worked two days and when they left there was a large gap in the sky. See the trees in the top photo of collage and the gap left with two tree stumps left. they cam back the next day and removed the 3r tree on the right bottom.

Come back tomorrow to see the full view of after the dastardly deed was done, and what it looked like on day 3. See the trash cans bottom right? I took my cans out and the Big Guy that lives in the house of 7 cars came out and I said to him, what's up with your neighbors trees? His reply was, they are clearing them out for hurricane season. The News Guys Win Again! Scare Tactics are Winning and our world will have less oxygen and the birds and coons and possums will have no where to go but our homes.

WHAT? they have been there 60 years or more, and now they are not

to be continued

Squirrels Skyway

 

This is our Golden Rain Tree. One side is dead. We love the tree as it is, even the dead part. There is a reason we will not cut it off

We have a family of these, there are 5 of them.

This is their sky way and above and below is the view of the sky-way from our window on the world. They leap from the oak to the dead limb, run down to the ground run up the palm and on to the roof and across and into the avocado at the back corner, down to the ground and we watch them eat in the back yard, then run up the sky-way and back the way they came to the oak tree they live in. Free entertainment.

The sky-way will remain. the laughter we get when they race to the point in the middle spread their 4 legs and leap into the oak, clinging on while it rides them up and down like a roller coaster... they have not fallen. Yet

 I throw fruit and veggies out under the sky-way and stand and watch them at the buffet. Almost forgot, the birds love the dead part of the tree. We have seen doves loving and jays fighting and grackles chasing all of them, including the squirrels who chatter at the grackles while running away