FLYING FILAMENTS – DAY 154 of P365

Home - Outdoors
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The airborne cottony masses are filaments to carry the seeds on the wind. Can you tell we studied Botany this year? It looks like it’s SNOWING when the cotton is flying.

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The seeds finally come down for a landing and many of them will take root. We’ve had to pull many Cottonwood seedlings from our yard and flowerbeds over the years.

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Ok. That’s the end of my Cottonwood Tree lesson (LOL). I must leave you with this bit of information. These trees make a TERRIBLE mess of your yard, they are a nightmare for allergy sufferers, and you certainly don’t want to park your cars under them when the sticky stuff is oozing from them. If you’re EVER planning on planting some Cottonwood Trees, be SURE they are SEEDLESS!

That was really interesting.

I wonder if some pioneer family camped out under your cottonwood once?

Can’t you use the fibres for anything?

Dorothy

Home - Indoors
DOUBLE OVEN

Cleaning the oven doors has been on my to-do list for quite some time!  Over the weekend, I searched Pinterest and other kitchen cleaning sites to try to find the best way to clean the film off from the inside of the glass. Ordinarily, this film would probably disappear during …

1000 Gifts
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INDOOR BASKETBALL

These boys love to play basketball.  For quite some time, they’ve been talking about how they need another hoop so they can have a full court!  The one you can’t see is mounted above the entryway into this room directly opposite this standing hoop.   They talked about putting up …

Cindy
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BALANCING ACT

I don’t think I ever mentioned that I was seeing a Physical Therapist last fall for some knee problems.  They said the knee problems could be related to having a weak ankle caused by so many bad ankle sprains.  They suggested balancing activities. Look at what a great husband I …