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Oscar’s tree

Several years ago, we befriended a beautiful big black and white cat named Oscar who lived at the end of our street. Our friendship with Oscar grew over a period of years.

We always brought him a treat when we walked by – one treat on our way to our walk, and another treat for our way back home. He always waited for us. Eventually, we moved up to mostly seafood, his favorite – usually 2 shrimp each night.

Oscar died a couple of years ago, and we were really very sad. During these nightly visits, we became friendly with “Oscar’s family” and unbeknownst to us, they referred to us as “Oscar’s people”.

That same year, Oscar’s parents came by our house and planted a beautiful Redbud tree in our yard. (Nancy) Oscar’s “mom”, got the tree for us through her business, and then they came down one night with all this huge tree planting equipment, and planted it for us.

We have named the tree, “Oscar’s Tree”.  It’s getting prettier every year.

Funny, because of that friendly cat, we’ve met some very nice people, and now we have a tree in our yard –
and all because of Oscar. 

Have a happy day!

We celebrated this holiday by having a wonderful dinner out on our deck.  The only Mexican food we had was a very spicy rice dish.  But the weather was wonderful, and the dinner was so good.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

It must be spring

This afternoon on the way home from work, I saw a Canada Goose and her babies.  They looked very young.

I think that’s a sure sign that spring is here.
I love spring.  It’s my favorite time of year.

Malarky/Malarkey

I was talking to someone in the hall at work today, and he was discussing a company policy that he thought was “Malarky” Now there’s a word I haven’t heard in many years, so I felt obligated to look it up – Here’s what I found:

Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive: “snookered by a lot of malarkey”

Nonsense; rubbish; absurd behaviour or talk

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

insincere talk: nonsense or rubbish, especially insincere talk ( informal )

The origin of this word is probably Early 20th century.

It certainly is a word that takes the place of a lot of less pleasant words.

Have a nice day, and don’t take any malarky from anybody!