Friday, June 6, 2025

Currently . . . June 6, 2025



At the beginning of each month I've been participating in the "Currently" link-up hosted at Overflowing With Thankfulness. Our hostess Jennifer posts a set of action verb prompts for the month and writers respond. So, without further ado, here are this month's prompts and what's happening currently . . .

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Loving - Things I'm loving right now include:

Warm weather and sunshine! It feels like we had an extra does of rain lately and it was getting tiresome. We had beautiful weather on Memorial Day weekend, though it was a little cool, and last weekend was absolutely gorgeous. 






Doing outside - I haven't been outside a great deal yet this season, but we've got stuff planned. I'd like for us to go for a walk most evenings but hubby walks a lot at work and I'm usually too tired when I get home. So we need to make up for it on weekends, I guess. The pool opened a couple weeks ago, and we plan to use it as often as possible this year. We'll go check it out on Sunday when our granddaughter comes over. We went to our first baseball game of the season on Wednesday night when my chorus sang the anthem. We will probably go to a few more games over the summer.



We finally are getting our little patio area cleaned up. It was getting cluttered and had a lot of weeds volunteering and the plants in pots had pretty much given up. I keep hoping we can fix up the patio area so it's pleasant to spend time out there, but we'll see if that actually happens this year.



Cooking/grilling - Mostly burgers and hot dogs on the grill so far, but we'll be smoking meats on the grill most weekends now. My cooking hasn't been much to brag about lately. I try to plan quick meals on weeknights and do "better" dinners on the weekends.

Excited about - To be honest, I can't think of anything that I'm super stoked about right now. We don't have any big plans coming up soon that I'm gearing up for. On Monday, the chorus leadership team will be sharing the music and plan for our finals package for the international competition and we are excited to see what that will be, so I guess that's the thing I'm eagerly anticipating and excited about.

Wearing - t-shirts and jeans or capris most days. I change into very lightweight lounge pants as soon as I get home from work. Some days I wish I could wear a t-shirt dress or a skort to work, but my office is in the warehouse/shipping area so I generally follow the same safety dress code that the warehouse workers have. I'm glad I don't have to dress up for work though - very glad! 

I recently got a new t-shirt dress that I hope will work to wear for church. It has pockets so I think it will work. (I play keyboards on worship team and use an in-ear monitor pack that I have to clip to a pocket or waistband somehow, so my non-pocketed dresses won't work)

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Here's a short Coffee Break Reading List . . . 


I'm currently reading . . . 

Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery

  

More reading news and recent reviews are at Just A Second.

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Quotable (I've enjoyed hunting up little quotes to sprinkle into my posts, and I host a regular Wednesday Quotes link party based on interesting quotes, but I've still got such a collection that I have to keep sharing them!):

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~Hal Borland


Consider this your invitation to stop by the current link-up and join us: WQ - The Value of Our Stories. The link-up is open for two weeks, and the next one will open on June 11th, with the theme "Summer Fun"

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Some fun things I've found during coffee breaks:



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What's currently happening in your life? Leave a comment and let me know! 


This post will be linked at this month's edition of "Currently" hosted by My Joyful Life


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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Everyday Images #63


Welcome to another installment of my challenge and reminder to myself to take photos somewhat regularly. I'm not a photographer, but I enjoy taking everyday photos of things I find interesting or want to remember later, and I find that I notice interesting things when I'm intentionally watching for them. Having some prompts that are open to interpretation has helped me pay a little more attention to what's around me. Every two weeks I have a few words and phrases that I'm focusing on, and I try to find opportunities to take pictures of these things each week.


May/June Prompts - Everyday Images #63
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blue
neighborhood spot (quarterly)
family
repeat
brick
in the dark
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blue




neighborhood spot (quarterly)




family



repeat - there were several repeating patterns at Westcott House I considered, but settled on this stained glass skylight in the upstairs hallway.



brick - brick patio and a brick building in the background



in the dark





And a few bonus photos:

My blue sky photo was taken while we were strawberry picking with the kids in Maryland. 




While in Maryland we went on a little explore to the Raven Tree






Finished the day with this sunset, and the only photo I got was with the vape shop and the iconic carpet rolling man in the foreground.


On Memorial Day, we went for breakfast at the Whataday Coffee Shop. 


Here's a few more photos from the beautifully restored Westcott House we saw on Saturday.









Afterwards we went to dinner at a Greek restaurant with amazing food . . .



and then went for a short walk at the reservoir. The Canada geese were clearly in charge of the place.




I walked to my dentist appointment on Tuesday, and saw this green heron on the way!


Wednesday evening we went to the Columbus Clippers game. I got to see the stadium from behind home plate, because Scioto Valley Chorus sang the anthem. Play ball!



I am sharing my photos every other Thursday, along with my prompts for the next two weeks. You can use all or some of the prompts for your own photo posts, or none of the prompts and just link up a post featuring your photos. Simple rules: Your posts must be family-friendly; the photos must be your own; and the post must be mostly photos. If you do share I'd appreciate a mention and link to A Fresh Cup of Coffee on your post.


Everyday Images will continue in 2025, every other Thursday, and the link-up is open for two weeks. 

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June Prompts - Everyday Images #64
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at home (monthly)
current season (quarterly)
flag
strong
path
water
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