Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is the super kind and talented Tabatha Yeatts. I’ll link to her post at the end today. This past Sunday, my husband joined me on my new volunteer experience. We drove to a county two hours away to survey for Karner Blue Butterflies. Karner Blues are tiny…
I am hoping that a new volunteer opportunity might provide some new friends. This week on Tuesday, I volunteered at the Monk Botanical Gardens in Wausau, an hour (one way) away. It was my second time there. Why am I traveling an hour away to volunteer? Well, I’ve looked for opportunities closer to the cabin and…
I published the blog on Medium.com today. Please check it out there: https://carollabuzzetta.medium.com/what-i-found-out-about-lowering-ones-chances-of-having-alzheimers-72cf38de4f76 What I Found Out About Lowering One’s Chances Of Having Alzheimer’s | by Carol Labuzzetta | Sept, 2022 | Medium (opens in a new tab) Thanks!
Books have taken a large space in my life lately. Since determined we were going to sell our house this year, we had to downsize. Hundreds of books got given away. Some for little free libraries, but more to teachers I know, and the majority to the community center in the town we left. We’ve…
I am all set to monitor for Monarchs this year! It is so exciting! Two days ago I saw my first monarch butterfly of the season fly over our deck in the late afternoon. An ideal day, sunny and warm, I shouted with glee as the monarch passed! Having already entered my milkweed observations to…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about standardizing when I would post certain themes on my blog. For years, I’ve had Silent Sunday, Slice of Life Tuesday, and Poetry Friday as regular postings on those days. It’s been an organized and successful way for me to post and for my readers to know (at…
Last week, I was taking a break from my writing my blog. It was time to refresh and relieve myself of the irritations that come with blogging daily for five years. I write to be heard, sometimes I’m not. End of story. A few days before Pi Day or 3/14 (3.14….) I saw a social…
As some of my faithful readers know, I’ve been going through my house and purging in order to put our house on the market later this spring and move. This month I decided to attack my home office and my beading area, as well as continue to weed out our storage area downstairs. I have…
I slept fitfully last night. I had some mild anxiety about a presentation today – the first student presentation I’ve done since the pandemic started. Although I was confident with the information I was presenting and how I was presenting it (this took a little bargaining), there was still that familiar twinge of fear and…
Today, I returned to volunteering. In preparation, I watched videos on YouTube, took an online orientation from Monarch Joint Venture staff and familiarized myself with forms as well as how data was to be recorded. I am now an official volunteer for the IMMP or Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program run by Monarch Joint Venture. But,…