My tired old head has a semblance of a memory within or at least that is my understanding. I can't imagine how it does all it does, storing things without a conscious thought and then years later finding it in the blink of an eye among all the millions there and immediately putting it up front when you think for it.
Like anything else a fault can develop that might be only temporary or it can lose a stored memory forever. Also pulling one up several times over the years it is possible to sweeten it up just a little each time till a bad memory can turn out to be pretty good.
When I started this I only wanted to say that my memory is something like a cracked record or maybe it is a cracked record. Anyway, I thought about all through the years trying to find if I've ever been happy to see a 31 degree temperature but the old memory wasn't able to put one forth. Leaves me unable to say for sure that I haven't but I was damn glad to see it here yesterday morning.
It doesn't take that teen, sub-teen or subzero crap to stick a useless large wish foremost in your mind. So large that it could disrupt and interfere with a lot of other things you might want to give attention to. Tho I have noticed that a freer mind hasn't helped much with the note.
Hum, looks like I have again successfully typed up a fair sized pile of nothing.
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"If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average." - M. H. Alderson
About Me
Thursday, December 30, 2010
12/20
A nice but cold day we were having yesterday when dusk began infiltrating, preparing our little nook of the world for darkness which messed with our day pretty much as it does most days about this time of year. It seems like the lessening of natural light allows some of the enthusiasm for the day to evaporate. As it leaves it somehow mellows a person which turns grins into yawns and strong thoughts of a fully reclined position begins to dominate. It usually doesn't take long for it to become strong enough to put your body to bed.
I've noticed as I've aged that my eyesight can be tricked into passing the message to my in head decider that it is dark when it may not be. This can cause the decider to have me in bed quite a bit before real time dark and it happens more often than I want to admit. This problem does allow me to wake fairly early which is my most favorite time of the day, followed closely by the going to bed event.
As most folks there are times when Glenda says she doesn't feel all that great. She had one of those times just the other day. I can't see too much wrong with her but how she might feel is a different matter. Not that I don't try to slip in a feel after she goes to sleep but that darn Mikey begins to growl when I do which wakes her before I can get a true feel of things. He never voices any concern when I scratch an itch on my body so how does he know that I'm not trying to scratch an itch on Glenda? I'm thinking the change in my breathing might be his clue.
These missives that I refer to as a n-o-t-e might only be an acronym as in, No Opinion Truthfully Expressed or maybe, Nothing Obviously To Envy. I don't know! Just trying to write something using my sick and unbalanced mind as my guide. I don't care how wild the ride the sick thing takes me on, I want to hold on and stay mounted for as long as I can. Yeah, I know there are those who might think that I was bucked off a long time ago but I'd rather think it's because everyone's ride is not necessarily the same. Yee Ha! Ride'um cowboy/girl.--------------------------------------------------------------------
"Folks ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And with age the old tigers begin getting hungry." -Anon
I've noticed as I've aged that my eyesight can be tricked into passing the message to my in head decider that it is dark when it may not be. This can cause the decider to have me in bed quite a bit before real time dark and it happens more often than I want to admit. This problem does allow me to wake fairly early which is my most favorite time of the day, followed closely by the going to bed event.
As most folks there are times when Glenda says she doesn't feel all that great. She had one of those times just the other day. I can't see too much wrong with her but how she might feel is a different matter. Not that I don't try to slip in a feel after she goes to sleep but that darn Mikey begins to growl when I do which wakes her before I can get a true feel of things. He never voices any concern when I scratch an itch on my body so how does he know that I'm not trying to scratch an itch on Glenda? I'm thinking the change in my breathing might be his clue.
These missives that I refer to as a n-o-t-e might only be an acronym as in, No Opinion Truthfully Expressed or maybe, Nothing Obviously To Envy. I don't know! Just trying to write something using my sick and unbalanced mind as my guide. I don't care how wild the ride the sick thing takes me on, I want to hold on and stay mounted for as long as I can. Yeah, I know there are those who might think that I was bucked off a long time ago but I'd rather think it's because everyone's ride is not necessarily the same. Yee Ha! Ride'um cowboy/girl.--------------------------------------------------------------------
"Folks ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And with age the old tigers begin getting hungry." -Anon
12/17
My tired old head has a semblance of a memory within or at least that is my understanding. I can't imagine how it does all it does, storing things without a conscious thought and then years later in the blink of an eye finding it among all the millions there and immediately putting it up front when you think for it.
Like anything else a fault can develop that might be only temporary or it can lose a stored memory forever. Also pulling one up several times over the years it is possible to sweeten it up just a little each time till a bad memory can turn out to be pretty good.
When I started this I only wanted to say that my memory is something like a cracked record or maybe it is a cracked record. Anyway, I thought about all through the years trying to find if I've ever been happy to see a forecasted high of about a near 31* degree temperature but the old memory wasn't able to put one forth. Leaves me unable to say for sure that I haven't but I was damn glad to see it on TV last night.
It doesn't take that teen, sub-teen or subzero crap to stick a useless large wish foremost in your mind. So large that it could disrupt and interfere with a lot of other things you might want to give attention to. Tho, I have noticed that a freer mind hasn't helped much with the note.
Hum, looks like I have again successfully typed up a fair sized pile of nothing.
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"If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average." - M. H. Alderson
Like anything else a fault can develop that might be only temporary or it can lose a stored memory forever. Also pulling one up several times over the years it is possible to sweeten it up just a little each time till a bad memory can turn out to be pretty good.
When I started this I only wanted to say that my memory is something like a cracked record or maybe it is a cracked record. Anyway, I thought about all through the years trying to find if I've ever been happy to see a forecasted high of about a near 31* degree temperature but the old memory wasn't able to put one forth. Leaves me unable to say for sure that I haven't but I was damn glad to see it on TV last night.
It doesn't take that teen, sub-teen or subzero crap to stick a useless large wish foremost in your mind. So large that it could disrupt and interfere with a lot of other things you might want to give attention to. Tho, I have noticed that a freer mind hasn't helped much with the note.
Hum, looks like I have again successfully typed up a fair sized pile of nothing.
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"If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average." - M. H. Alderson
12/16
After I wake, open my eyes and prior to arising, I blink a few times while the realization that the good Lord has granted me another day soaks into my still muddled mind. While still lying there I say a small prayer with 'THANK YOU GOD' being the hub. After accomplishing the getting up feat I usually feel the need to pause for an addendum to the prayer and ask for His help in enabling my old, over used, overweight, creaky and achy body to carry me thru the fine day that He has seen fit to bless me with. Grunts and groans, partly caused by the bones, will never be that which kills me.
First thing this morning I made a terrible mistake. Things haven't been going too well with Glenda's mom so she and brother Bob have been doing what they can to make things better. My bad was trying to check a recorded message after flipping through all the received calls. I did this just after 4:00 this morning. I messed up on my first attempt to call our number and it rang somewhere else. I hung up and tried a second time which was a successful call to our number. We found out at 4:11 whose phone we rang. Bob was on the line Bob checking with us the reason for his early morning call. Because of the problem with mom I'm sure he was relieved to find out the call had been a mistake but........I think one can be a bit aggravated during a relieved period.
We have a little bit of slick here this morning causing a delay in the morning walk and probably a delay in the older, including Glenda, folks weekly bridge came. It's 31 degrees here at 7:30 and I don't expect the tiny little skim of slick to last very long at all.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White
First thing this morning I made a terrible mistake. Things haven't been going too well with Glenda's mom so she and brother Bob have been doing what they can to make things better. My bad was trying to check a recorded message after flipping through all the received calls. I did this just after 4:00 this morning. I messed up on my first attempt to call our number and it rang somewhere else. I hung up and tried a second time which was a successful call to our number. We found out at 4:11 whose phone we rang. Bob was on the line Bob checking with us the reason for his early morning call. Because of the problem with mom I'm sure he was relieved to find out the call had been a mistake but........I think one can be a bit aggravated during a relieved period.
We have a little bit of slick here this morning causing a delay in the morning walk and probably a delay in the older, including Glenda, folks weekly bridge came. It's 31 degrees here at 7:30 and I don't expect the tiny little skim of slick to last very long at all.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White
12/14
With all the computers and all the weather history contained, there has got to be a flip of a coin or a throw of a dart involved in picking the model that a weatherman chooses to run with. And as you might have noticed the closer a dreary gets to your area, the forecast most always changes and at times some of the changes are big time.
What would you suggest the chances of success of forecasting where a clump of several or maybe just one rain drop will hit the ground? Even with all the computers being fed things which I suppose would include wind velocity among many other things, to pinpoint the area of impact would be impossible. Might get within a mile or two if you revise the prediction just before they hit the ground. What a complicated job!
I've been thinking some this morning about the said possibility of measurable ice accumulation come Thursday. In my opinion it will probably not happen at all. First they are predicting from too far out in front of the possibility, tho I know it will be revised several times before the projected ice day.
Then too, if a weatherman forecasts a 50% chance of rain and is wrong 60% of the time what would be the real chances of rain? I believe that I've figured it out. You may say there is a 50% chance it won't rain just to scoot on by but you would be wrong according to my calculations.
If you say, that because the weather man is wrong 60% of the time, then it could be said that we have a 40% chance of him being right....Wrong again.
A 50% chance of rain made by a 60% of the time wrong person you would need to reduce the 50% chance of rain by 60% leaving only a 20% chance. After that one would need to subtract that from the 40% chance he might be correct, leaving you the real chance of the forecasted happening at only a 10%.
You can see at 10% they can't help but get it correct some of the time but look at the other 90% of the time they won't. Anyway, I've tried to think about how errors can work on either end, like none of the forecasted accumulation to many many times more than what they say, but my meager brain just isn't up to it.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, either change the facts or use percentages to prove the theory.~unknown
What would you suggest the chances of success of forecasting where a clump of several or maybe just one rain drop will hit the ground? Even with all the computers being fed things which I suppose would include wind velocity among many other things, to pinpoint the area of impact would be impossible. Might get within a mile or two if you revise the prediction just before they hit the ground. What a complicated job!
I've been thinking some this morning about the said possibility of measurable ice accumulation come Thursday. In my opinion it will probably not happen at all. First they are predicting from too far out in front of the possibility, tho I know it will be revised several times before the projected ice day.
Then too, if a weatherman forecasts a 50% chance of rain and is wrong 60% of the time what would be the real chances of rain? I believe that I've figured it out. You may say there is a 50% chance it won't rain just to scoot on by but you would be wrong according to my calculations.
If you say, that because the weather man is wrong 60% of the time, then it could be said that we have a 40% chance of him being right....Wrong again.
A 50% chance of rain made by a 60% of the time wrong person you would need to reduce the 50% chance of rain by 60% leaving only a 20% chance. After that one would need to subtract that from the 40% chance he might be correct, leaving you the real chance of the forecasted happening at only a 10%.
You can see at 10% they can't help but get it correct some of the time but look at the other 90% of the time they won't. Anyway, I've tried to think about how errors can work on either end, like none of the forecasted accumulation to many many times more than what they say, but my meager brain just isn't up to it.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, either change the facts or use percentages to prove the theory.~unknown
12/13
This wasn't the first time, and you would think I would learn, but this morning I once again was driven to my knees by a tiny tap to my elbow. Down there quick sweating and sopping. I must remember when carrying two full cups of coffee from the kitchen to the bedroom, keep the elbows tucked in! It is amazing how a person can carry full cups of anything without spilling a drop but let a third unwanted factor slip in and sloppy goes the game. It probably worked out for the better. Even tho I had said my morning prayers before alighting, finding myself on my knees seemed like an ideal position to pray again. I did add in a request during the prayer for forgiveness of some of the words that I had used right after the bumping/sloshing too.
Had a bowl of rather cool chili the other day. Even tho I had spiced it up with a lot of hot sauce it wasn't very warm but still pretty good. That does not come close to comparing to the rather cold chilly that we are experiencing today. It is like 3* here now with a wind Chill of 4* below zero. So cold that spicing it up with salt doesn't warm it enough to melt the ice. Now they are talking the possibility of measurable freezing ice around Thursday. Ugg!
They say that diversity is a huge contributor to character building. I can't help but believe that at my age most things are pretty well set but I suppose I could be wrong.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.~Will Durant
Had a bowl of rather cool chili the other day. Even tho I had spiced it up with a lot of hot sauce it wasn't very warm but still pretty good. That does not come close to comparing to the rather cold chilly that we are experiencing today. It is like 3* here now with a wind Chill of 4* below zero. So cold that spicing it up with salt doesn't warm it enough to melt the ice. Now they are talking the possibility of measurable freezing ice around Thursday. Ugg!
They say that diversity is a huge contributor to character building. I can't help but believe that at my age most things are pretty well set but I suppose I could be wrong.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.~Will Durant
12/12
Wow one; When we looked out this morning to a very white view in a 19 degree sitting. A lot of the white was moving around very fast being encouraged by a very stiff wind. Puts the wind chill around 0 to 1 degree.
Wow two; Even tho I'm a retired sales person, thankfully, I still have the health and ability to put out a pretty good snow job which will start a little later. This little chore is being made possible by Struebbe who has made his blade equipped ATV available.
Whoa one; Is the fact that Dory, using a bunch of her trillion wiles had convinced me to chauffeur she and our Truesdell friends to Booneville today. The jip joint is about 66 miles up the road and I was not looking forward to the windy drive. That was cancelled around 6:45 this morning.
Whoa two; Well, there are many woes to choose from. As I was running them thru the poor mind, wiles addled the process of trying to choose a number two. Then I realized I may have my whoa and wows inverted or at least the whoa could be miss-spelled.
I believe I've got it now, in the above the first should be the only wow while all the rest should be woes with whoa being only an accompanying wish. Ah heck! Even I don't know what I mean.
Human sacrifice isn't supposed to be practiced anymore but usually I feel that I've painfully participated in such, as I leave one of those gaming joints after losing my ass. Not going to miss that feeling today. Might miss the buffet some but I can get over that a lot easier than I could riding home sitting on the little left over chunk of my rear end.
Got my walk in, the road cleaned off and also the porches and walks here. Just noticed that I hadn't sent this message earlier so....whether you might want it or not..here it is.
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"It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs." - Sherrill Brown
Wow two; Even tho I'm a retired sales person, thankfully, I still have the health and ability to put out a pretty good snow job which will start a little later. This little chore is being made possible by Struebbe who has made his blade equipped ATV available.
Whoa one; Is the fact that Dory, using a bunch of her trillion wiles had convinced me to chauffeur she and our Truesdell friends to Booneville today. The jip joint is about 66 miles up the road and I was not looking forward to the windy drive. That was cancelled around 6:45 this morning.
Whoa two; Well, there are many woes to choose from. As I was running them thru the poor mind, wiles addled the process of trying to choose a number two. Then I realized I may have my whoa and wows inverted or at least the whoa could be miss-spelled.
I believe I've got it now, in the above the first should be the only wow while all the rest should be woes with whoa being only an accompanying wish. Ah heck! Even I don't know what I mean.
Human sacrifice isn't supposed to be practiced anymore but usually I feel that I've painfully participated in such, as I leave one of those gaming joints after losing my ass. Not going to miss that feeling today. Might miss the buffet some but I can get over that a lot easier than I could riding home sitting on the little left over chunk of my rear end.
Got my walk in, the road cleaned off and also the porches and walks here. Just noticed that I hadn't sent this message earlier so....whether you might want it or not..here it is.
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"It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs." - Sherrill Brown
12/10
Every morning we get we're thankful for it no matter what. And it doesn't take looking out the window or a long studious slab of thinking to come to that conclusion either. This morning we're looking at a warm sunny day with ultra cold day on the way. I think they are talking about it's arrival being sometime late tomorrow. They did take an accumulation of snow from the latest forecast changing it to a probable light dusting. We sure do hope the last word hangs true. This hope has a bit of extra strength to it because of a trip we have planned for Sunday and Monday. We'll find out if the joke was on us or not by Sunday morning. Trip or no trip, either way we win because one cannot live without hope. Even if that hope doesn't materialize it still serves a very useful purpose by carrying one happily along to the next of the thousands of hopes that come to each of us each day.
So for today a trip to Osage Beach is the talk. Glenda will pick up a few, 'we needs' while I go to have my hair cut. It's about time too! The last time it was cut was 3 months and 3 days ago.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth, It's the funniest joke in the world. — George Bernard Shaw
So for today a trip to Osage Beach is the talk. Glenda will pick up a few, 'we needs' while I go to have my hair cut. It's about time too! The last time it was cut was 3 months and 3 days ago.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth, It's the funniest joke in the world. — George Bernard Shaw
11/30
Man'o, I've walked long enough now that my calves have grown into young steers. The young seems to be happy down there and hasn't tried to go any higher but that damn steer part keeps trying to creep on up. I'll fight that hand and fist if I have to!
One of the reasons I seldom have anything new to type is because the high cost of auto juice keeps us pretty close to home. We are a pretty poor, jobless and parsimonious couple that hope not to run out of money before we run out of our own gas. We can pretty well track the cash but no way to tell about the other.
Even if we don't get around much I have oodles and gobs of memories to draw from. Yep, don't have a bad memory in my head. If it is a memory, it is of a thing past and dealt with in some fashion leaving me still here and happy so it can't be bad. Or can it?
I just know I have a lot of memories stored up there but for some reason I can't pull up many that might be of interest to you to type about. In truth, I have so much stored that it is a chore to sort anything out. Oodles and gobs probably make some sense to you now huh? Or it could be that a few of my 100 billion neurons are getting too old or over used to fire correctly.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/human-memory.htm
In the past, many experts were fond of describing memory as a sort of tiny filing cabinet full of individual memory folders in which information is stored away. Others likened memory to a neural supercomputer wedged under the human scalp. But today, experts believe that memory is far more complex and elusive than that -- and that it is located not in one particular place in the brain but is instead a brain-wide process.
Our brains are made of approximately 100 billion nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons have the amazing ability to gather and transmit electrochemical signals -- they are something like the gates and wires in a computer.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.. Elbert Hubbard
One of the reasons I seldom have anything new to type is because the high cost of auto juice keeps us pretty close to home. We are a pretty poor, jobless and parsimonious couple that hope not to run out of money before we run out of our own gas. We can pretty well track the cash but no way to tell about the other.
Even if we don't get around much I have oodles and gobs of memories to draw from. Yep, don't have a bad memory in my head. If it is a memory, it is of a thing past and dealt with in some fashion leaving me still here and happy so it can't be bad. Or can it?
I just know I have a lot of memories stored up there but for some reason I can't pull up many that might be of interest to you to type about. In truth, I have so much stored that it is a chore to sort anything out. Oodles and gobs probably make some sense to you now huh? Or it could be that a few of my 100 billion neurons are getting too old or over used to fire correctly.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/human-memory.htm
In the past, many experts were fond of describing memory as a sort of tiny filing cabinet full of individual memory folders in which information is stored away. Others likened memory to a neural supercomputer wedged under the human scalp. But today, experts believe that memory is far more complex and elusive than that -- and that it is located not in one particular place in the brain but is instead a brain-wide process.
Our brains are made of approximately 100 billion nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons have the amazing ability to gather and transmit electrochemical signals -- they are something like the gates and wires in a computer.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.. Elbert Hubbard
11/29
Blowing and burning has pretty well left us here in a leafless station over the sill. Looking out the window is a bare-assed looking world I'm telling you, we kinda live on a hill but don't live in a mansion and life here isn't loveless. Couple more little tiny bunches of nothing and I be satisfied enough to hit send.
Dory has about made up her mind to have me put up several strings of colored or flashing lights around the house like we used to do. Can you call them Christmas lights anymore?
Older is when you begin to realize Christmas isn't about all the giving and receiving of gifts and never should have been. With problems like that unplugged from your socket the real reason is left exposed, the commemoration of the birth of Christ.
I'm not sorry to say, but you'll not find any presents laying under our tree and as far as that goes Dory has about decided against having a tree at all. We still enjoy the season and eat like a pig but priorities do change. When you don't have any children's minds to beguile by the gift giving, while the real meaning of Christmas is ignored or slotted way, way low, you don't have all the fuss and the end guilty conscious feelings. Wrong gift, not enough gifts or allowing the real meaning to only sidle in if at all.
Many people send cards to relatives, friends and even a few distant acquaintances, usually making the sending of cards a long drawn out affair as you attempt to write a short note or not and address all those envelopes. I'm fighting Dory a little bit over this sending thing. We think of you, we wish you happy times all the time and that would include the new year. Would it upset you if you didn't receive an envelope with our return address containing a card that you probably wouldn't have the time to read anyway? Nothing or something, watch your mail to realize the winner.
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Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Dory has about made up her mind to have me put up several strings of colored or flashing lights around the house like we used to do. Can you call them Christmas lights anymore?
Older is when you begin to realize Christmas isn't about all the giving and receiving of gifts and never should have been. With problems like that unplugged from your socket the real reason is left exposed, the commemoration of the birth of Christ.
I'm not sorry to say, but you'll not find any presents laying under our tree and as far as that goes Dory has about decided against having a tree at all. We still enjoy the season and eat like a pig but priorities do change. When you don't have any children's minds to beguile by the gift giving, while the real meaning of Christmas is ignored or slotted way, way low, you don't have all the fuss and the end guilty conscious feelings. Wrong gift, not enough gifts or allowing the real meaning to only sidle in if at all.
Many people send cards to relatives, friends and even a few distant acquaintances, usually making the sending of cards a long drawn out affair as you attempt to write a short note or not and address all those envelopes. I'm fighting Dory a little bit over this sending thing. We think of you, we wish you happy times all the time and that would include the new year. Would it upset you if you didn't receive an envelope with our return address containing a card that you probably wouldn't have the time to read anyway? Nothing or something, watch your mail to realize the winner.
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Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
11/24
I do believe that mother nature has the sheets this morning! Pretty rainy here at this time. The first sheet of rain came around 1:35 a.m. and since, a couple more has covered us quickly, then gone. I think we had about three short sheets accompanied by some thunder and lightning then things slowed down to a steady light rain. At 4:40 we had received a little over 1/2 inch. Who knows what is next.
It is good that the rain is here now while it is 41*. Tonight the low is expected to be down to 29* and tomorrow's high around 39*. But, the forecast for Thursday night is a temperatures of around 18 degrees. I don't need a big reason but the cold and being retired should suffice to allow me to sit for long spells in the old recliner without a hint of nagging guilt.
I had a flash of sadness awhile ago. As I looked out the window the little rivulets of rain interrupted my view and as my focus changed to some of them, I was reminded of tears. Tears are usually for sad occasions but as I struggled with the feeling, the knowledge that tears are sometimes shed at very happy times too, came to bare. Whew! After all that I've ended up somewhere in the middle. That middle is probably the normal state for most of us.
As I sure you can see I've still nothing worthwhile to type so I'm going to quit fighting it this morning.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.~John Milton
It is good that the rain is here now while it is 41*. Tonight the low is expected to be down to 29* and tomorrow's high around 39*. But, the forecast for Thursday night is a temperatures of around 18 degrees. I don't need a big reason but the cold and being retired should suffice to allow me to sit for long spells in the old recliner without a hint of nagging guilt.
I had a flash of sadness awhile ago. As I looked out the window the little rivulets of rain interrupted my view and as my focus changed to some of them, I was reminded of tears. Tears are usually for sad occasions but as I struggled with the feeling, the knowledge that tears are sometimes shed at very happy times too, came to bare. Whew! After all that I've ended up somewhere in the middle. That middle is probably the normal state for most of us.
As I sure you can see I've still nothing worthwhile to type so I'm going to quit fighting it this morning.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.~John Milton
12/23
After I wake, open my eyes and prior to arising, I blink a few times while the realization that the good Lord has granted me another day soaks into my still muddled mind. While still lying there I say a small prayer with 'THANK YOU GOD' being the hub. After accomplishing the getting up feat I usually feel the need to pause for an addendum to the prayer and ask for His help in enabling my old, over used, overweight, creaky and achy body to carry me thru the fine day that He has seen fit to bless me with. Grunts and groans, partly caused by the bones, will never be that which kills me.
First thing this morning I made a terrible mistake. Things haven't been going too well with Glenda's mom so she and brother Bob have been doing what they can to make things better. My bad was trying to check a recorded message after flipping through all the received calls. I did this just after 4:00 this morning. I messed up on my first attempt to call our number and it rang somewhere else. I hung up and tried a second time which was a successful call to our number. We found out at 4:11 whose phone we rang. Bob was on the line Bob checking with us the reason for his early morning call. Because of the problem with mom I'm sure he was relieved to find out the call had been a mistake but........I think one can be a bit aggravated during a relieved period.
We have a little bit of slick here this morning causing a delay in the morning walk and probably a delay in the older, including Glenda, folks weekly bridge came. It's 31 degrees here at 7:30 and I don't expect the tiny little skim of slick to last very long at all.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White
First thing this morning I made a terrible mistake. Things haven't been going too well with Glenda's mom so she and brother Bob have been doing what they can to make things better. My bad was trying to check a recorded message after flipping through all the received calls. I did this just after 4:00 this morning. I messed up on my first attempt to call our number and it rang somewhere else. I hung up and tried a second time which was a successful call to our number. We found out at 4:11 whose phone we rang. Bob was on the line Bob checking with us the reason for his early morning call. Because of the problem with mom I'm sure he was relieved to find out the call had been a mistake but........I think one can be a bit aggravated during a relieved period.
We have a little bit of slick here this morning causing a delay in the morning walk and probably a delay in the older, including Glenda, folks weekly bridge came. It's 31 degrees here at 7:30 and I don't expect the tiny little skim of slick to last very long at all.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White
Monday, November 22, 2010
Nov. 22
Holy catfish litterman! I've been throwing the things I clean out of Tomi's litter box every morning over the seawall into the lake. I've been unknowingly chumming the cat fish. You should see the size of some of them! Would have never thought that cat fish would like the stuff that cats do?
We've got the sun here this morning, shinning a little light on all the subjects. "I can see clearly now, but the rain is coming. I can see all obstacles in my way." It sure does wonders in stirring up thought in the old mind but maybe a little too much. Too much thought can hinder the 'think what to type' chore and I believe that phenomenon has struck. Struck me down in the prime of thought!
68* at this time with a brisk wind out of the south. Made for an enjoyable warm walk. Can't hardly believe this weather but a little harder to believe are the horse flies in November.
Another thing that will be of no interest is this morning I did my 1001, 1002 and 1003 miles so far for this year. Also finished my 65th library book yesterday. Ain't got time to oil the hinges, nor to mend the window pane.
And I do know that in a lot of cases shorter isn't necessarily better but it certainly is when it comes to my typed notes. Short here is always good. Today again, I'm doing my part. "It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-Shiny day." at least until about noon they say.
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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it will have been a successful day.~Alex Noble
We've got the sun here this morning, shinning a little light on all the subjects. "I can see clearly now, but the rain is coming. I can see all obstacles in my way." It sure does wonders in stirring up thought in the old mind but maybe a little too much. Too much thought can hinder the 'think what to type' chore and I believe that phenomenon has struck. Struck me down in the prime of thought!
68* at this time with a brisk wind out of the south. Made for an enjoyable warm walk. Can't hardly believe this weather but a little harder to believe are the horse flies in November.
Another thing that will be of no interest is this morning I did my 1001, 1002 and 1003 miles so far for this year. Also finished my 65th library book yesterday. Ain't got time to oil the hinges, nor to mend the window pane.
And I do know that in a lot of cases shorter isn't necessarily better but it certainly is when it comes to my typed notes. Short here is always good. Today again, I'm doing my part. "It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-Shiny day." at least until about noon they say.
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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it will have been a successful day.~Alex Noble
Nov. 17
It looks as if a lot of the lake doesn't realize it's over as it appears that some of it is attempting to escape the torment of being impounded or dammed and then being tortured by the big boats, the PWC's and the speed demon's. The escape attempt is in the form of vapors or better know as fog, lifting off the surface of the lake big time this morning. I think some of the rising moisture will probably hang around then in retaliation, try to catch a lagging boater or two to dump on.
Seems to be quite an abnormal bunch of fish jumping out there this morning too. I believe they may be jumping in glee as there are no boats and were very few yesterday. Now for the rest of the year and way into next, the fishes biggest worry will come mostly from the fishermen. Happy times are back for all the lake dwellers.
If there is anything interesting that I know it is playing hide and seek in my mind. It's hide appears to be a heck of a lot better than my seek so the end is near. Of course there is always that almost guaranteed possibility that I know nothing that would be of interest to many anyway..........
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.--- Marcus Aurelius
Seems to be quite an abnormal bunch of fish jumping out there this morning too. I believe they may be jumping in glee as there are no boats and were very few yesterday. Now for the rest of the year and way into next, the fishes biggest worry will come mostly from the fishermen. Happy times are back for all the lake dwellers.
If there is anything interesting that I know it is playing hide and seek in my mind. It's hide appears to be a heck of a lot better than my seek so the end is near. Of course there is always that almost guaranteed possibility that I know nothing that would be of interest to many anyway..........
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.--- Marcus Aurelius
Nov. 15
I have heard "no news is good news" many, many times and believe that it could be true depending on the reference. Not many moons ago I missed the late news and weather but caught a clip on a Columbia channel saying something like "7 on 17 coming up". I know this means 7 minutes of news and weather without a commercial so I hung around.
Gag! The station then flipped to a basketball game in progress. I was able to read at the bottom that there was only a little over a minute left so I watched a bit and waited. Watched long enough to decide basketball to be one of the most ignorant games ever to mess with regular TV watching. What with purposeful fouls, timeouts and all the other silly goings on, gees, I had to wait over 40 minutes as they ran from one end of the court to the other, stumbled and banged each other through that last 83 seconds. Does this sound ridicules?
Anyway, I subjected myself to what was, for over 40 minutes waiting for the news that turned out to be no news. Not good, not good at all!!!!
Sad all this typing resulted in news that turned out to be no news. Not good, not good at all!!!!
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News is only a wonder for some and a leader of others. With the biased coverage of today's happenings, some will accept it as gospel while the less gullible will always wonder what the real story might be. Some even wonder enough to flip channels.~Anon
Gag! The station then flipped to a basketball game in progress. I was able to read at the bottom that there was only a little over a minute left so I watched a bit and waited. Watched long enough to decide basketball to be one of the most ignorant games ever to mess with regular TV watching. What with purposeful fouls, timeouts and all the other silly goings on, gees, I had to wait over 40 minutes as they ran from one end of the court to the other, stumbled and banged each other through that last 83 seconds. Does this sound ridicules?
Anyway, I subjected myself to what was, for over 40 minutes waiting for the news that turned out to be no news. Not good, not good at all!!!!
Sad all this typing resulted in news that turned out to be no news. Not good, not good at all!!!!
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News is only a wonder for some and a leader of others. With the biased coverage of today's happenings, some will accept it as gospel while the less gullible will always wonder what the real story might be. Some even wonder enough to flip channels.~Anon
Nov 14
A short note is better than no note......probably not for you but it does me all kinds of good.
My blood has got to course through my huge oversized body which slows it down getting to my brain. Too, I think the body uses up quite a bit of the fresh nutrients or whatever kind of stuff it is that the blood picks up somewhere as it flows along. Anyway, I believe the old brain is getting short changed which causes it to attempt storing the stuff instead of letting it out to the mind. The mind gets sluggish and begins to coast along creating a 'duh' type syndrome. Even a short note squeezes the mind like a tube of toothpaste and forces some of the crap to flush. Soooo.. could that explain why these notes are always so crappy.
It is said that an idle mind is a fertile ground for undesirable thoughts and that is another reason why a note of any kind is good for me......You know, anything at all to get the mind past idle.
Well, I think I have it pretty well flushed now. Guess I'll go out and try to find something to use it on.
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"Minds like razors remain sharp and bright, only if kept in use, otherwise they rust." M.K. Soni
My blood has got to course through my huge oversized body which slows it down getting to my brain. Too, I think the body uses up quite a bit of the fresh nutrients or whatever kind of stuff it is that the blood picks up somewhere as it flows along. Anyway, I believe the old brain is getting short changed which causes it to attempt storing the stuff instead of letting it out to the mind. The mind gets sluggish and begins to coast along creating a 'duh' type syndrome. Even a short note squeezes the mind like a tube of toothpaste and forces some of the crap to flush. Soooo.. could that explain why these notes are always so crappy.
It is said that an idle mind is a fertile ground for undesirable thoughts and that is another reason why a note of any kind is good for me......You know, anything at all to get the mind past idle.
Well, I think I have it pretty well flushed now. Guess I'll go out and try to find something to use it on.
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"Minds like razors remain sharp and bright, only if kept in use, otherwise they rust." M.K. Soni
Nov. 13
GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING!
Isn't it great to wake up with the realization that God has granted you another day? Mornings are just about my favorite time of day. My two favorite happy times are going to bed, I really like that, and getting up. In between that the times are good too, but for some reason it doesn't very often produce near the thrill.
Because my between times are mostly left to me to fill in as I desire I took the time to make the sound wave that accompanies this message. You might need to turn your sound up. Some still may not be able to hear it and I'm sorry even if you're not. Gotta go on to other filler activities now.
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…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss." -Al-Ghazzali
Isn't it great to wake up with the realization that God has granted you another day? Mornings are just about my favorite time of day. My two favorite happy times are going to bed, I really like that, and getting up. In between that the times are good too, but for some reason it doesn't very often produce near the thrill.
Because my between times are mostly left to me to fill in as I desire I took the time to make the sound wave that accompanies this message. You might need to turn your sound up. Some still may not be able to hear it and I'm sorry even if you're not. Gotta go on to other filler activities now.
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…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss." -Al-Ghazzali
Nov. 12
I've been trying to figure out if I'm just dumb or stupid. I go out almost every day and blow all the leaves off the road and porches then at night they all blow back with a few new ones added. I'm going to go with dumb. Being dumb does finally sink in, sinks in clear to the bottom doesn't it? That realization is how the term 'dumb ass' originated. I'm thinking a lot of dumb evaporates with age........Not all of it of course there will always be some residue that can't be washed away.
I was blessed with a tiny bit larger than normal appendage on my body and have had to suffer with it all my life. Unfortunately, it's the one hanging below my eyes. It has been like a blinder for the left eye but doesn't seem to increase my smelling abilities should I roll the eyes to the right and vice versa. I've lived okay with that but this CPAP machine and related swelling spreading my nose out, has began to cause it to become a part of my straight ahead view now. Because of my right eye being the prominent one, the nose looks like a one-sided tree in the middle of everything I look at. Squinting thru swollen eyes compound this problem somewhat too. Did you ever try to type with a one-sided tree between you and the keyboard? It sure puts a capital C on Challenge. Nah, it isn't all that bad.
Now if you've stayed with me this far, you shall be rewarded! I bid you a great day and will type no more to this!
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"And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." -Norton Juster
I was blessed with a tiny bit larger than normal appendage on my body and have had to suffer with it all my life. Unfortunately, it's the one hanging below my eyes. It has been like a blinder for the left eye but doesn't seem to increase my smelling abilities should I roll the eyes to the right and vice versa. I've lived okay with that but this CPAP machine and related swelling spreading my nose out, has began to cause it to become a part of my straight ahead view now. Because of my right eye being the prominent one, the nose looks like a one-sided tree in the middle of everything I look at. Squinting thru swollen eyes compound this problem somewhat too. Did you ever try to type with a one-sided tree between you and the keyboard? It sure puts a capital C on Challenge. Nah, it isn't all that bad.
Now if you've stayed with me this far, you shall be rewarded! I bid you a great day and will type no more to this!
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"And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." -Norton Juster
Nov 11
Sitting around here in this warm 54 degree weather just waiting for the rain to strike. The forecast of rain makes it only a possibility so who knows. I think weather forecasting is a tricky game and they are wrong quite often. Now if they give you a 70% chance of rain, with the 40% of the times that they are wrong, what would really be our chance for rain, humm?
So with that...... on with this vegetarian note. We haven't been involved in anything that is worthy of mentioning. We haven't had any great inspiring thoughts pass thru our heads or at least hang around long enough for us to notice them. Jump down, spin around, do the regular stuff. Jump down, spin around, do it all again. I'm kinda liking it myself but it sure serves up a nothing to sink your teeth into. Makes a meatless kind of note, doesn't it.
Dory is pretty much off her bridge today. That isn't right! I mean to tell you she is going to spend most of the day, as she does almost every Thursday, in Rocky Mount playing bridge. She plays there along with several other retired oldies, all exercising their brains hoping to improve the chance that their minds might hang in there with them a little longer. Ask me sometime if I think it is working. Of course they enjoy playing too! Wonder where I came up with that mind thing? Maybe I should learn the game.
Anyway, I stay here at the ranch and watch over the live stock while I read and eat sunflower seeds....Or do a few things on the list of things to do that Dory always leaves for me.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.~Mark Twain
So with that...... on with this vegetarian note. We haven't been involved in anything that is worthy of mentioning. We haven't had any great inspiring thoughts pass thru our heads or at least hang around long enough for us to notice them. Jump down, spin around, do the regular stuff. Jump down, spin around, do it all again. I'm kinda liking it myself but it sure serves up a nothing to sink your teeth into. Makes a meatless kind of note, doesn't it.
Dory is pretty much off her bridge today. That isn't right! I mean to tell you she is going to spend most of the day, as she does almost every Thursday, in Rocky Mount playing bridge. She plays there along with several other retired oldies, all exercising their brains hoping to improve the chance that their minds might hang in there with them a little longer. Ask me sometime if I think it is working. Of course they enjoy playing too! Wonder where I came up with that mind thing? Maybe I should learn the game.
Anyway, I stay here at the ranch and watch over the live stock while I read and eat sunflower seeds....Or do a few things on the list of things to do that Dory always leaves for me.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.~Mark Twain
Nov 10
Well what do you know? We're blessed with another brisk beautiful morning. 49 degrees with a huge sun peeking thru the trees on yon side of the cove as it prepares to mount it's place in the sky. A good nights sleep behind us that always allows you and your conscience to meld and repair the problems of the days past leaving you feeling clean and with a renewed vigor for the life ahead in spite of all of it's crooks and crevices.
After Dory's tests and after the visit with the cancer doctor to find out that he was sure enough of things to release her from any future visits was a large contributor to the greatness of last nights sleep. However, he does suggest that she continue with a yearly chest x-ray along with the blood tests but that will be through the family doctor. Also, if anything should come to worry us he will always be available.
With you and yours, we hope all things are as well or better than you expected them to be!
-------------------------------------------------------------Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino
After Dory's tests and after the visit with the cancer doctor to find out that he was sure enough of things to release her from any future visits was a large contributor to the greatness of last nights sleep. However, he does suggest that she continue with a yearly chest x-ray along with the blood tests but that will be through the family doctor. Also, if anything should come to worry us he will always be available.
With you and yours, we hope all things are as well or better than you expected them to be!
-------------------------------------------------------------Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino
Nov. 9
Shoot! I've always believed that I was a very thoughtful person but I must have been wrong! For the life of me I can't think of a thing worthy of typing. It has been that way for some time now, you as my witness.
I suspect that a lot of folks are like me and can't really read when being bothered by music. So I added a little music to this mornings note in hopes of fussing the fact there is no content. Only thing wrong is for some, I had to cut it short, not knowing if they were still using a dial-up service or not. If you don't have a pretty fast server I'm sorry about the music.
Will say that we found a dead armadillo in the ditch across from Reeds on our street. Think another animal and the dead one must have fought because of the torn up leaves in a ten or twelve foot area. Lots of blood there too and from the looks of the claws on the armadillo I'd bet all the blood didn't come from him.
Anyway, where there is life there is hope and both of us here woke up full of it this morning. We're trusting you did too!
We're on our way to Columbia for Glenda's regular six month checkup with the cancer doctor. By the way, she has passed the magical five year mark cancer free.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.~Molly Ivins
I suspect that a lot of folks are like me and can't really read when being bothered by music. So I added a little music to this mornings note in hopes of fussing the fact there is no content. Only thing wrong is for some, I had to cut it short, not knowing if they were still using a dial-up service or not. If you don't have a pretty fast server I'm sorry about the music.
Will say that we found a dead armadillo in the ditch across from Reeds on our street. Think another animal and the dead one must have fought because of the torn up leaves in a ten or twelve foot area. Lots of blood there too and from the looks of the claws on the armadillo I'd bet all the blood didn't come from him.
Anyway, where there is life there is hope and both of us here woke up full of it this morning. We're trusting you did too!
We're on our way to Columbia for Glenda's regular six month checkup with the cancer doctor. By the way, she has passed the magical five year mark cancer free.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.~Molly Ivins
Nov. 8
The tree leaves are turning colors now but only about a trillion have fallen so far. I believe fall has fell. I kind of like fall and winter too, as far as that goes, but my beloved wife doesn't possess even a tiny bit of good thought as it relates to winter. People still have to play the cards they are dealt unless you can afford to cheat. We can't so another winter here in good old Missouri. Dory will also be playing the hands she's dealt playing bridge twice a week then Mahjong once a week.......If! there is anyone left to play with.
Matter of fact, here shortly there will be about eight women to join her in their weekly session of gossip and Mahjong.
If it's mind over matter my mind is really mattered up this morning. No more than I usually say anyway isn't worth sitting here beating myself this morning so I bid you good bye.
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Matter of fact, here shortly there will be about eight women to join her in their weekly session of gossip and Mahjong.
If it's mind over matter my mind is really mattered up this morning. No more than I usually say anyway isn't worth sitting here beating myself this morning so I bid you good bye.
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Nov. 6
I'm going to tell you what.......Glenda and I have unknowingly thrown away, stomped on, hauled off and cussed tens of thousand of dollars in the past many years.
During a visit to the wonderful Wal-Mart store in Osage Beach Saturday we noticed many five and a half pound bags of, get this................crushed acorns. And they were priced at ten dollars per bag!
My goodness, our stupidity and complete lack of imagination has caused us a lot of aggravation over the years and now we learn it has also cost us a hell of a lot of possible income.
I think the use of such, was to pour the bag of stuff into a pile in an area where, from your stand, the enticed deer would come in close and into your view as they hungrily threw caution to the wind and rush in to feed on the treat.
Tho, the lawn, road and woods are running over with acorns these in the package are crushed! I suppose someone is certain that being crushed would be a big enough draw to encourage the deer to walk over thousands of pounds of whole acorns just to get to that little five plus pound pile. I don't know, every time we drive up the road we probably crush twenty five pounds of the things and have yet to see a deer cleaning any of them up.
A fairly cool sunny day with a nasty wind blowing will probably help us become more familiar with what is within the walls of this house including the old recliner most of the day. I did catch a few Crappie yesterday that I probably should bite the bullet and clean after while. But I might wait for a warmer time or maybe just free them. We always keep a mess available to cook and eat so don't need anymore.
I can see me now, a bullet between my teeth and a knife clasped in my cold shriveled up fingers as I shakily hold the fish to the board and begin filleting it. I always use an electric knife and will today, but due to the shaky body stuff I might not need to plug it in.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.-Mark Twain
During a visit to the wonderful Wal-Mart store in Osage Beach Saturday we noticed many five and a half pound bags of, get this................crushed acorns. And they were priced at ten dollars per bag!
My goodness, our stupidity and complete lack of imagination has caused us a lot of aggravation over the years and now we learn it has also cost us a hell of a lot of possible income.
I think the use of such, was to pour the bag of stuff into a pile in an area where, from your stand, the enticed deer would come in close and into your view as they hungrily threw caution to the wind and rush in to feed on the treat.
Tho, the lawn, road and woods are running over with acorns these in the package are crushed! I suppose someone is certain that being crushed would be a big enough draw to encourage the deer to walk over thousands of pounds of whole acorns just to get to that little five plus pound pile. I don't know, every time we drive up the road we probably crush twenty five pounds of the things and have yet to see a deer cleaning any of them up.
A fairly cool sunny day with a nasty wind blowing will probably help us become more familiar with what is within the walls of this house including the old recliner most of the day. I did catch a few Crappie yesterday that I probably should bite the bullet and clean after while. But I might wait for a warmer time or maybe just free them. We always keep a mess available to cook and eat so don't need anymore.
I can see me now, a bullet between my teeth and a knife clasped in my cold shriveled up fingers as I shakily hold the fish to the board and begin filleting it. I always use an electric knife and will today, but due to the shaky body stuff I might not need to plug it in.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.-Mark Twain
Friday, November 05, 2010
Nov. 5
I've got a huge 'useless' list of things I want to accomplish today. You know how it goes, when Dory arrives on the scene is when my list becomes useless and her list mysteriously becomes the only one. You would think her list would be a 'WE DO' but it isn't, it is just a 'HUNKY DO' list. Stupid me, I'm lovin' it!
It's pretty hard to type because of the great big smile obstructing my vision to the key board. Yep, I'm a hunt and pecker but I do use three fingers to type my ignorance conveyance's. However I usually use only one finger when trying to convey my message to most of the inconsiderate dock breaking boaters that have no idea what no wake means. I guess some of them know but don't care. Anyway, their readily noted absence this morning is what has pasted the big grinny smile.
Retired life is grand and as you can see I really have got to search hard to find something to complain about. I search hard because based on all my years of experience and noting how they do it on the news, people want to hear of trials and tribulations of others rather than any of the happy stuff that abounds most everywhere.
I wouldn't need to search for a sad happening if the recent memory of the results of our Tuesday Boonville gambling boat visit wasn't sickly fresh and so terribly painful in my mind. It just hurts too much to type about!
So as it really is, is not necessarily said. It's kind of like reaching in after you've mixed up a bunch of words, grabbing a handful then throwing them at the computer. You get to read what sticks. That could be good ....or that could be bad. Either way your emergency button should work just fine.
Happy begets happiness. Make someone happy today.
It's pretty hard to type because of the great big smile obstructing my vision to the key board. Yep, I'm a hunt and pecker but I do use three fingers to type my ignorance conveyance's. However I usually use only one finger when trying to convey my message to most of the inconsiderate dock breaking boaters that have no idea what no wake means. I guess some of them know but don't care. Anyway, their readily noted absence this morning is what has pasted the big grinny smile.
Retired life is grand and as you can see I really have got to search hard to find something to complain about. I search hard because based on all my years of experience and noting how they do it on the news, people want to hear of trials and tribulations of others rather than any of the happy stuff that abounds most everywhere.
I wouldn't need to search for a sad happening if the recent memory of the results of our Tuesday Boonville gambling boat visit wasn't sickly fresh and so terribly painful in my mind. It just hurts too much to type about!
So as it really is, is not necessarily said. It's kind of like reaching in after you've mixed up a bunch of words, grabbing a handful then throwing them at the computer. You get to read what sticks. That could be good ....or that could be bad. Either way your emergency button should work just fine.
Happy begets happiness. Make someone happy today.
Nov. 1
It's Larry not tarry and tarry I cannot do. Oh, I guess I could but it isn't what I want to do right now. Boy, retired life is great! It is so good to be able to do only what you want to do. Err, there is a bit of a problem with the truth here..... I live with a bossy wife.
This day began pretty cool around here. The temperature gauge had it at 49 for a short spell this morning. 49* sets up for a cool walk but cool seems to be what most younger folks and some of the older ones want to be. We're told that we might expect the temp to get clear up to 58*. 68* was the word for yesterday but it didn't quite make it. Life is but a dream sweet heart.
Living in Missouri for so long, THE WEATHER has conditioned us to adversity and if by chance that hasn't been enough, the fact that we've been married for more than twenty five years puts us capable of accepting just about anything. Because most things DURING THE LAST 25 YEARS of MY life HAVE BEEN controlled by the MY other (GLENDA), (WHICH CAUSES ME THE MOST PRACTICE IN HANDLING ADVERSITY), my schooling has been a bit more extensive enabling me to be more apt at it than SHE.
I guess it takes time to think or taking the time to think before many everyday things become more meaningful. I've just recently realized that the row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, live is but a dream, is not just a children's little ditty. Wow, I may be maturing.
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I believe-That regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.~Unknown
This day began pretty cool around here. The temperature gauge had it at 49 for a short spell this morning. 49* sets up for a cool walk but cool seems to be what most younger folks and some of the older ones want to be. We're told that we might expect the temp to get clear up to 58*. 68* was the word for yesterday but it didn't quite make it. Life is but a dream sweet heart.
Living in Missouri for so long, THE WEATHER has conditioned us to adversity and if by chance that hasn't been enough, the fact that we've been married for more than twenty five years puts us capable of accepting just about anything. Because most things DURING THE LAST 25 YEARS of MY life HAVE BEEN controlled by the MY other (GLENDA), (WHICH CAUSES ME THE MOST PRACTICE IN HANDLING ADVERSITY), my schooling has been a bit more extensive enabling me to be more apt at it than SHE.
I guess it takes time to think or taking the time to think before many everyday things become more meaningful. I've just recently realized that the row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, live is but a dream, is not just a children's little ditty. Wow, I may be maturing.
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I believe-That regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.~Unknown
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sept 31
How many times have you heard and probably said it a time or two yourself, "man, what you see when you don't have a camera" ? Well yesterday I waited till after sunup to do my daily walk so took my camera along and consequently didn't see a thing of interest. This morning I left the house in the dawn's low light carrying the camera again and saw a deer first thing. To dark to get a picture! Dang!
Did see someone in the woods wearing a very bright orange vest. Might be deer hunting but the only legal way to take a deer at this time is with a bow and arrow. Guess he wanted to be sure that no one would shoot an arrow at him. Makes me feel kinda dumb, I always bow hunted dressed in camouflage wear.
Fingers be nimble, fingers be quit. Fingers jumped over to the send button and click.
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"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow." — Bela Lugosi
Did see someone in the woods wearing a very bright orange vest. Might be deer hunting but the only legal way to take a deer at this time is with a bow and arrow. Guess he wanted to be sure that no one would shoot an arrow at him. Makes me feel kinda dumb, I always bow hunted dressed in camouflage wear.
Fingers be nimble, fingers be quit. Fingers jumped over to the send button and click.
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"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow." — Bela Lugosi
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Sept 28
A full stress test is pretty much a big happening! Overall, the ordeal.....err I mean the procedure took about four hours. Ended hot and sweaty and not knowing anything. The major contributor to the fast heartbeat and heated body would be the speedy walk on the treadmill but I think that shut up in a room with three attentive good looking females, one with her hand on my back, helped to speed the heartbeat to the wanted 128 bpm. Actually it went higher than that but 128 was the goal. At 128 one of the ladies injected another dose of the radioactive material into my bloodstream through my IV.
One of the first happening was going to the second floor for the insertion of the IV and the first injection of the radioactive material. I told the girl delivering the stuff that it had caused the metal in my partial plate to get hot. That seemed to puzzle her and the other attending lady for a minute so I quickly admitted to joking.
Next thing I was sent into a machine to get a picture of my heart which took 20 minutes of laying very still with my arms up over my head. Man, that begin to hurt long before the 20 minutes were up.
Anyway, from there to the treadmill located on the first floor then a quick, first of the day, bite of food and a glass of water. After which, back up to the second floor for another 20 minute picture then back to the first floor for an echogram or whatever.
For some reason, and I can't blame the small hamburger that I had, my body developed, what could have been an embarrassing load of gas. I was able to control the area that it was allowed to escape but after we left the hospital the place was locked down.
We found out later that it wasn't locked down due to my sneaky gas releases but because of the admittance of a lady that was the victim of an attempted murder. Some feared the murderer would come to finish the act. He had also killed three others during the attempt on this lady. All happened near Holt Summit.
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"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it." - Izaak Walton
One of the first happening was going to the second floor for the insertion of the IV and the first injection of the radioactive material. I told the girl delivering the stuff that it had caused the metal in my partial plate to get hot. That seemed to puzzle her and the other attending lady for a minute so I quickly admitted to joking.
Next thing I was sent into a machine to get a picture of my heart which took 20 minutes of laying very still with my arms up over my head. Man, that begin to hurt long before the 20 minutes were up.
Anyway, from there to the treadmill located on the first floor then a quick, first of the day, bite of food and a glass of water. After which, back up to the second floor for another 20 minute picture then back to the first floor for an echogram or whatever.
For some reason, and I can't blame the small hamburger that I had, my body developed, what could have been an embarrassing load of gas. I was able to control the area that it was allowed to escape but after we left the hospital the place was locked down.
We found out later that it wasn't locked down due to my sneaky gas releases but because of the admittance of a lady that was the victim of an attempted murder. Some feared the murderer would come to finish the act. He had also killed three others during the attempt on this lady. All happened near Holt Summit.
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"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it." - Izaak Walton
Sept 26
Got yesterdays walk in after daylight. Saw a few things that I might not have noticed walking in the dark. Three spiders, a discarded banana peel, five vehicles passed me, the top of a huge tree laying on the ground just a little ways into the woods and the big old sun.
I also got to see a dear tho didn't get to see as much of her as I would have liked. Before I left for the walk I took her a cup of coffee and then by the time I got back she was already up and dressed. So it goes.
Leaving now for the University hospital in Columbia where I'm to be the star in a stress test. I think they want you to take the test in a weakened and slow thinking mode as I'm not allowed to eat or drink anything, including coffee till after the ordeal is consummated. I've no problems which makes me believe the test were scheduled for someone to make a few extra bucks or because of my older age. Who knows?
Gotta get crackin!
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When you are through changing, you are through.- Bruce Barton
I also got to see a dear tho didn't get to see as much of her as I would have liked. Before I left for the walk I took her a cup of coffee and then by the time I got back she was already up and dressed. So it goes.
Leaving now for the University hospital in Columbia where I'm to be the star in a stress test. I think they want you to take the test in a weakened and slow thinking mode as I'm not allowed to eat or drink anything, including coffee till after the ordeal is consummated. I've no problems which makes me believe the test were scheduled for someone to make a few extra bucks or because of my older age. Who knows?
Gotta get crackin!
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When you are through changing, you are through.- Bruce Barton
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Oct 11
I can't believe it! After my walk and a small breakfast some friends are driving over to pick us up. What I can't believe is we are going to accompany them to Boonville. Hey! We were just there last Wednesday. Of course Glenda hitting a Royal Flush on that trip and bringing home some winnings may have unduly influenced her to accept the invitation. Oh well, I understand that I get to drive their car for the outing and we'll be gifted by the casino with a $5.00 dollar come on and a free 'ha' buffet. Who knows, maybe we'll win again.
Sometimes more than none is good which could lead us to sometimes more than one could be better. I almost made an error yesterday but just lucked out of not sending yesterdays note four times. After reading it I see that the forth one wasn't any better than the first one and in truth probably wasn't any better than none. Everyone knows how sorry a person I am so I don't think there is any need to apologize for these lackluster notes so I won't.
I think most would find a little note a relief from all of the daily received jokes that constitutes most of the bulk of everyone's in-box. At least I know I appreciate getting notes instead of jokes. Most of the time any joke someone receives, he'll/she'll get it four or five times then a couple of months later here it comes again.
Now that I think about it, I see that these notes could qualify as a joke and everyone almost got yesterdays four times............I give up!
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You can observe a lot just by watching.~Yogi Berra
Sometimes more than none is good which could lead us to sometimes more than one could be better. I almost made an error yesterday but just lucked out of not sending yesterdays note four times. After reading it I see that the forth one wasn't any better than the first one and in truth probably wasn't any better than none. Everyone knows how sorry a person I am so I don't think there is any need to apologize for these lackluster notes so I won't.
I think most would find a little note a relief from all of the daily received jokes that constitutes most of the bulk of everyone's in-box. At least I know I appreciate getting notes instead of jokes. Most of the time any joke someone receives, he'll/she'll get it four or five times then a couple of months later here it comes again.
Now that I think about it, I see that these notes could qualify as a joke and everyone almost got yesterdays four times............I give up!
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You can observe a lot just by watching.~Yogi Berra
Oct. 26
With a tornado watch in effect for Morgan and surrounding counties till 6:00 a.m. I think I'll not be stepping off my usual three miles till after daylight envelopes the path. I'll probably miss seeing the deer but I'd rather be blown sitting in my recliner than be blown off course. I know God will and has always been protecting me but I believe that he expects us to participate in the act of self preservation. Like jumping from an airplane flying at ten thousand feet without a parachute might indicate to God that you want to end it and he would probably bow to your wish.
I do, as most others, dream a lot. Some can't remember their dreams but I can remember most of mine and some are worth it. Three nights ago I met God and he put his arm around me. His arm was uncovered and I felt flesh against flesh. He did not say a word to me but I said to him that he was quite a bit larger a person than I had always pictured him. I also mentioned that he may not be a large person but being so reverend by me that he only seemed big. I became so emotional when I told the dream to Glenda that I had to pause and regroup several times and that has happened here somewhat. What a vivid experience!
Steps. Step it up, step on it, step out, step up to the plate, watch your step, all kinds of steps and steps are a very prominent fixture when you live or exist on the banks of the Lake of the Ozarks. Not being able to afford to live, our little place of existence sits fourteen steps from the water on the bank of Lake of the Ozark's Lick Branch Cove and seventeen steps down from the road. If you head for the lake from the upper level of the house you need to add fourteen more steps and then depending on what level you start from to get to the road you would add seven more steps up or seven down before you start on the outside seventeen up. As you might expect we've learned to watch our steps around here. We're like 5 1/2 miles from the dam by water and about 16 miles by land. I'm unable to figure out how many steps those numbers would total. Another kind of step is the way I'm trying to step around the fact that I again have nothing to say. What's new huh?
Just curious what your opinion might be, does a water impoundment such as the Lake of the Ozarks have only one long continuous bank or thousands of small ones?
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Life is the sum of all your choices.~ Albert Camus
I do, as most others, dream a lot. Some can't remember their dreams but I can remember most of mine and some are worth it. Three nights ago I met God and he put his arm around me. His arm was uncovered and I felt flesh against flesh. He did not say a word to me but I said to him that he was quite a bit larger a person than I had always pictured him. I also mentioned that he may not be a large person but being so reverend by me that he only seemed big. I became so emotional when I told the dream to Glenda that I had to pause and regroup several times and that has happened here somewhat. What a vivid experience!
Steps. Step it up, step on it, step out, step up to the plate, watch your step, all kinds of steps and steps are a very prominent fixture when you live or exist on the banks of the Lake of the Ozarks. Not being able to afford to live, our little place of existence sits fourteen steps from the water on the bank of Lake of the Ozark's Lick Branch Cove and seventeen steps down from the road. If you head for the lake from the upper level of the house you need to add fourteen more steps and then depending on what level you start from to get to the road you would add seven more steps up or seven down before you start on the outside seventeen up. As you might expect we've learned to watch our steps around here. We're like 5 1/2 miles from the dam by water and about 16 miles by land. I'm unable to figure out how many steps those numbers would total. Another kind of step is the way I'm trying to step around the fact that I again have nothing to say. What's new huh?
Just curious what your opinion might be, does a water impoundment such as the Lake of the Ozarks have only one long continuous bank or thousands of small ones?
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Life is the sum of all your choices.~ Albert Camus
Oct. 25
Leaves are falling big time, filling the gutters that need to be cleaned. Too, the crappie are biting big time, easy to catch but then need to be cleaned. My little mind is thinking nasty thoughts big time about all the chores and it needs to be cleaned.
What ever the attitude it is of the carriers own making and can always be improved or changed with a strong dose of the three D's, Discipline,
Desire, and Dedication! Some reality probably should be taken before the dose of the three D's is administered. There have been a few cases where the reality has created the need for a very much stronger portion of the Desire to be added to the dose of the three D's. A large shot of all that every day for me but sometimes it just doesn't take. I don't care! Bless life and all it gives!
I've not had a wordy urge for so long..........and at this time the urge is still missing. Maybe if I had a thought worth typing.........Tomorrow or the next day or the next or possibly the next. I'm pretty sure you won't be holding your breath. Sometimes relief is shown by exhaling.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.~C. S. Lewis
What ever the attitude it is of the carriers own making and can always be improved or changed with a strong dose of the three D's, Discipline,
Desire, and Dedication! Some reality probably should be taken before the dose of the three D's is administered. There have been a few cases where the reality has created the need for a very much stronger portion of the Desire to be added to the dose of the three D's. A large shot of all that every day for me but sometimes it just doesn't take. I don't care! Bless life and all it gives!
I've not had a wordy urge for so long..........and at this time the urge is still missing. Maybe if I had a thought worth typing.........Tomorrow or the next day or the next or possibly the next. I'm pretty sure you won't be holding your breath. Sometimes relief is shown by exhaling.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.~C. S. Lewis
Oct. 10
Cool is here with kinda cold gaining on the backstretch. I think the lack of heat would be a good time to sit in the kitchen. I'm a bit hungry this morning so I may not wait for the kinda cold.
A trip to Jeff City for a visit with Lena and friend ruth then on to Columbia for a visit with the doctor. This visit is only one of the regular scheduled kind. You know, just to make sure all the health things are as good as I feel. My demise is stalking me and has been for over 69 ears and it could jump out and get me anytime. But, until something like that happens I like to have the doctor look around and give me his opinion on how close that life stealing crook seems to be.
'Drop a line', is another wonder for me but if you find some time we would appreciate it if you would 'drop us a line'. 'If you find the time' should never be used because it is so inaccurate. Time is not and will never be a consideration or something that you need to look for. The real word is priorities! People never have been without the time to do what they want. It all hinges on how you prioritize. I must be nuts in saying all this! I dread the knowledge as to our lack of importance. However, 'what is' will continue being 'what is' as well as 'what was' will forever be 'what was'. Unless you're like Clinton and have the time to doctor it all up. It is still 'was' but it's possible, sometime in the future, our 'what is' won't be so sure about the 'what was'.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.~Albert Einstein
A trip to Jeff City for a visit with Lena and friend ruth then on to Columbia for a visit with the doctor. This visit is only one of the regular scheduled kind. You know, just to make sure all the health things are as good as I feel. My demise is stalking me and has been for over 69 ears and it could jump out and get me anytime. But, until something like that happens I like to have the doctor look around and give me his opinion on how close that life stealing crook seems to be.
'Drop a line', is another wonder for me but if you find some time we would appreciate it if you would 'drop us a line'. 'If you find the time' should never be used because it is so inaccurate. Time is not and will never be a consideration or something that you need to look for. The real word is priorities! People never have been without the time to do what they want. It all hinges on how you prioritize. I must be nuts in saying all this! I dread the knowledge as to our lack of importance. However, 'what is' will continue being 'what is' as well as 'what was' will forever be 'what was'. Unless you're like Clinton and have the time to doctor it all up. It is still 'was' but it's possible, sometime in the future, our 'what is' won't be so sure about the 'what was'.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.~Albert Einstein
Oct 14
Cool is here with kinda cold gaining on the backstretch. I think the lack of heat would be a good time to sit in the kitchen. I'm a bit hungry this morning so I may not wait for the kinda cold.
A trip to Jeff City for a visit with Lena and friend ruth then on to Columbia for a visit with the doctor. This visit is only one of the regular scheduled kind. You know, just to make sure all the health things are as good as I feel. My demise is stalking me and has been for over 69 ears and it could jump out and get me anytime. But, until something like that happens I like to have the doctor look around and give me his opinion on how close that life stealing crook seems to be.
'Drop a line', is another wonder for me but if you find some time we would appreciate it if you would 'drop us a line'. 'If you find the time' should never be used because it is so inaccurate. Time is not and will never be a consideration or something that you need to look for. The real word is priorities! People never have been without the time to do what they want. It all hinges on how you prioritize. I must be nuts in saying all this! I dread the knowledge as to our lack of importance. However, 'what is' will continue being 'what is' as well as 'what was' will forever be 'what was'. Unless you're like Clinton and have the time to doctor it all up. It is still 'was' but it's possible, sometime in the future, our 'what is' won't be so sure about the 'what was'.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.~Albert Einstein
A trip to Jeff City for a visit with Lena and friend ruth then on to Columbia for a visit with the doctor. This visit is only one of the regular scheduled kind. You know, just to make sure all the health things are as good as I feel. My demise is stalking me and has been for over 69 ears and it could jump out and get me anytime. But, until something like that happens I like to have the doctor look around and give me his opinion on how close that life stealing crook seems to be.
'Drop a line', is another wonder for me but if you find some time we would appreciate it if you would 'drop us a line'. 'If you find the time' should never be used because it is so inaccurate. Time is not and will never be a consideration or something that you need to look for. The real word is priorities! People never have been without the time to do what they want. It all hinges on how you prioritize. I must be nuts in saying all this! I dread the knowledge as to our lack of importance. However, 'what is' will continue being 'what is' as well as 'what was' will forever be 'what was'. Unless you're like Clinton and have the time to doctor it all up. It is still 'was' but it's possible, sometime in the future, our 'what is' won't be so sure about the 'what was'.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.~Albert Einstein
Oct. 13
Sleep, sleep, wherefore art tho sleep? I don't know if it is common or not but there was a time when sleep would come to me and bug me till I went to bed. Back then I didn't give sleep too much thought. After the bugging I'd go to bed and sleep was right there.
Then came a time when I began thinking about sleep and what the lack of it could do to my next day so, off to bed and sleep would close in on me pretty quick. Now going to bed is the beginning of a big hunt. Mostly looking for sleep in all the wrong places. I believe that as some age they gain much knowledge, so much that it becomes hard to organize. Too, many chunks of knowledge come only in bits and pieces which create natural questions which also gets stuck into the clutter.
At least that is the way it is with me. Trying to find sleep at this phase, I lay myself down and visit most all these unorganized happenings or bits of knowledge, work on an answer or two, usually without results, then somewhere along the line sleep and I get together. It seems the clutter keeps building during every day making it a longer and longer hunt every night.
I must be a sportsman. I hunt a lot during the night then fish around for something to type everyday. I always find sleep so I guess that makes me a better hunter than fisherman.
Who knows what goes on behind closed minds? Does ever a 100% truth escape that pen?
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.~Blaise Pascal
Then came a time when I began thinking about sleep and what the lack of it could do to my next day so, off to bed and sleep would close in on me pretty quick. Now going to bed is the beginning of a big hunt. Mostly looking for sleep in all the wrong places. I believe that as some age they gain much knowledge, so much that it becomes hard to organize. Too, many chunks of knowledge come only in bits and pieces which create natural questions which also gets stuck into the clutter.
At least that is the way it is with me. Trying to find sleep at this phase, I lay myself down and visit most all these unorganized happenings or bits of knowledge, work on an answer or two, usually without results, then somewhere along the line sleep and I get together. It seems the clutter keeps building during every day making it a longer and longer hunt every night.
I must be a sportsman. I hunt a lot during the night then fish around for something to type everyday. I always find sleep so I guess that makes me a better hunter than fisherman.
Who knows what goes on behind closed minds? Does ever a 100% truth escape that pen?
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.~Blaise Pascal
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Oct 3
Another day is under way in which thankfully, Glenda and I get to participate in again. My little contribution may not mean much to a lot of people but it sure means a lot to me.
Yep, we're all blessed to be here but how humbling it is to look up at the sky during a clear dark night and see the trillion stars. If you think about it, the earth isn't even as much as a grain of sand on a huge beach somewhere. This makes one realize that the occupants on the grain of sand are about as far beneath the line of relevancy to the universe as to be a nothing. Thank God for seeing fit to put us on this tiny thing anyway!
These thoughts fuel the words that have been used on me so often, "Larry, you live in your own little world." I'm thinking we all live in our own little worlds! To us, this is a huge earth that we live on yet we all still live in our own little world. Unknowingly we may be a tad relevant in another's little world but the real relevancy is to ourselves. That real time stuff can only be found in our own little world.
What the heck am I talking about? I saw a falling star this morning and now think it must have been a spaceship that somehow got me aboard and messed me up before returning me. Funny, I can't remember any of that.
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There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.- David G. Myers
Yep, we're all blessed to be here but how humbling it is to look up at the sky during a clear dark night and see the trillion stars. If you think about it, the earth isn't even as much as a grain of sand on a huge beach somewhere. This makes one realize that the occupants on the grain of sand are about as far beneath the line of relevancy to the universe as to be a nothing. Thank God for seeing fit to put us on this tiny thing anyway!
These thoughts fuel the words that have been used on me so often, "Larry, you live in your own little world." I'm thinking we all live in our own little worlds! To us, this is a huge earth that we live on yet we all still live in our own little world. Unknowingly we may be a tad relevant in another's little world but the real relevancy is to ourselves. That real time stuff can only be found in our own little world.
What the heck am I talking about? I saw a falling star this morning and now think it must have been a spaceship that somehow got me aboard and messed me up before returning me. Funny, I can't remember any of that.
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There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.- David G. Myers
Sept 28
Yes dear, I am still doing the daily walks. So far this year I have accumulated 837 miles of the extra daily three miles plus walks. Since I began last year I've got 1644 miles logged. My weight varies quite a bit daily but I can say that I've lost at least forty pounds so far.
Every morning I wake around 4:00 am. This morning I got up at 3:50 and yesterday it was 4:19. Most of the time I lay there until 4:00.
I make a stop in the bathroom then into the kitchen I go. Poor myself a cup of coffee over three ice cubes then let Mikey out for his doo. Let him back in then down the stairs to feed and free Tomi from his room. Then back up to drink the coffee and pour another with only two ice cubes. A tooth brushing, a shave then a shower is next. There are times that I accidentally wake Glenda who says she is ready for coffee so I get her a cup. As I drink my second one I lay all the eggs etc out for her to fix for our breakfast. I usually pour myself a third cup of coffee with two ice cubes then go down to put my shoes on. Check some of the emails then put on my head lamp, grab my spot lamp then go up and drink my third coffee.
There are time were Glenda is ready for her second cup so I fulfill that desire then out the door around 5:00.
Back by 6:00 or there about I have another couple cups of coffee as I read the emails then play blitz or poker while I await for Glenda to get up. She stomps on the floor when breakfast is ready so up I go to eat. Two fried eggs, a piece of meat of some kind, a Mexico jalapeno and a piece of toast does me. Sometimes the jalapenos very hot and sometimes they are just right.
Every morning I wake around 4:00 am. This morning I got up at 3:50 and yesterday it was 4:19. Most of the time I lay there until 4:00.
I make a stop in the bathroom then into the kitchen I go. Poor myself a cup of coffee over three ice cubes then let Mikey out for his doo. Let him back in then down the stairs to feed and free Tomi from his room. Then back up to drink the coffee and pour another with only two ice cubes. A tooth brushing, a shave then a shower is next. There are times that I accidentally wake Glenda who says she is ready for coffee so I get her a cup. As I drink my second one I lay all the eggs etc out for her to fix for our breakfast. I usually pour myself a third cup of coffee with two ice cubes then go down to put my shoes on. Check some of the emails then put on my head lamp, grab my spot lamp then go up and drink my third coffee.
There are time were Glenda is ready for her second cup so I fulfill that desire then out the door around 5:00.
Back by 6:00 or there about I have another couple cups of coffee as I read the emails then play blitz or poker while I await for Glenda to get up. She stomps on the floor when breakfast is ready so up I go to eat. Two fried eggs, a piece of meat of some kind, a Mexico jalapeno and a piece of toast does me. Sometimes the jalapenos very hot and sometimes they are just right.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sept 27
Got into a book last night and had a problem getting out of it. The aggravating parts are, it wasn't all that good of a book and now even after shaving I'm bushed. The shower, I hoped would be a good perk me up but the results there turned out to be only a huge wet down. With the roof that nature has manufactured to cover some of my incidentals, a come clean shower is a pretty good challenge. I've gotten enough experience in the exercise to know how to get cleaned all over so no problem. I only bring it up to have something to type about. No, not that. Bringing that up wouldn't result in much to type about at all. Anyway, when I suck in the roof of the added on shed to help enable a better cleaning job, the lungs get squeezed down so much that I've only got a short time to do what I need to do before I could pass out for lack of oxygen. Nah! Really, I get clean all over, but this morning it didn't do much to charge my get-up and go.
A shower or anything of the sort can only be a healthy influencer. Isn't that a deal? The happiness, sadness and all your get-up and go still depends on the happenings in your head. You and only you, control your world! Wow! Don't mean a thing if you don't have the swing.
I've always held that if you wait long enough or think about it longer you can always find some good. I waited till late to do this note and feel now that, much to my dismay, I have disproved the aforementioned holding.
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I do too know it! If bullshit was flowers you'd probably be sending me a thank you card for the bouquet.
A shower or anything of the sort can only be a healthy influencer. Isn't that a deal? The happiness, sadness and all your get-up and go still depends on the happenings in your head. You and only you, control your world! Wow! Don't mean a thing if you don't have the swing.
I've always held that if you wait long enough or think about it longer you can always find some good. I waited till late to do this note and feel now that, much to my dismay, I have disproved the aforementioned holding.
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I do too know it! If bullshit was flowers you'd probably be sending me a thank you card for the bouquet.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sept. 25
I've been stung many times during all my years but a couple of those years back I had a reaction to a black wasp sting on my belly. Long after the sting, when I was upset or distressed the place where I was stung would begin to itch. It was many months after the sting before the problem itch went away.
Next time I was stung by a wasp on the hand which caused my whole arm to swell and it was several days before that went down. Then the big one! While clearing brush on the hill I got into a yellow jacket nest. Only one sting and it was on the very top of my head. My palms began to itch uncontrollably and my eyes and lips began to swell. I turned into a mess in a very short time. Dory gave me a couple benadryl but things continued to worsen so off to the emergency room we went.
They took me right in, laid me down and stuck an IV into my arm. Don't know what was flowing through the needle but it sure did the trick. They told me that any future stings would probably cause a more severe reaction. I didn't even get upset with the $672.00 cost. Might be because the insurance paid for it but I don't think so.
This spring I grabbed the door knob to the garage door and included in the grab a wasp. Stung me pretty good so into the house for a couple benadryl and a seat on the recliner to see if anything else might be required. My palms began to itch but not too bad. After an hour things turned pretty well back to normal.
Couple months ago while trimming the ivy along the front of the porch I knocked down a hornet's nest. Pissed off a bunch of flyers so kicked up my heels and left the area. Shouldn't kicked so high as one caught me and stung me on the ankle. Into the house, 2 benadryl and a rest in the recliner to await the swelling. No swelling at all........go figure.
Three days ago I was again trimming the ivy when I noticed lots of flying bees that turned out to be yellow jackets. I got some wasp spray and from about five feet away began dowsing the area and bee hole. Ran out of spray and as I turned and headed to the house I got stung twice on my right rear cheek. Man, I was slappin and movin but too slow I guess as I got stung twice more on the back of my leg just below my right rear cheek. Finally got into the house and asked Glenda for a couple benadryl. While standing there waiting I got stung again just above my left knee. I jerked the leg of my shorts up and saw a wasp. Out of those shorts in a flash! Shook the wasp out and killed it and checked for any more. As near as I can tell it I think that wasps went up my shorts leg and was probably responsible for all five of my stings.
I took the benadryl and sat in the recliner for over an hour and every so often it felt like one of the stings got stung again. I'm tired typing so I'll just tell you that five stings and no adverse reaction other than the singing stings was one huge huge blessing. Maybe my body has whipped the allergy?
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.~ John Dryden
Next time I was stung by a wasp on the hand which caused my whole arm to swell and it was several days before that went down. Then the big one! While clearing brush on the hill I got into a yellow jacket nest. Only one sting and it was on the very top of my head. My palms began to itch uncontrollably and my eyes and lips began to swell. I turned into a mess in a very short time. Dory gave me a couple benadryl but things continued to worsen so off to the emergency room we went.
They took me right in, laid me down and stuck an IV into my arm. Don't know what was flowing through the needle but it sure did the trick. They told me that any future stings would probably cause a more severe reaction. I didn't even get upset with the $672.00 cost. Might be because the insurance paid for it but I don't think so.
This spring I grabbed the door knob to the garage door and included in the grab a wasp. Stung me pretty good so into the house for a couple benadryl and a seat on the recliner to see if anything else might be required. My palms began to itch but not too bad. After an hour things turned pretty well back to normal.
Couple months ago while trimming the ivy along the front of the porch I knocked down a hornet's nest. Pissed off a bunch of flyers so kicked up my heels and left the area. Shouldn't kicked so high as one caught me and stung me on the ankle. Into the house, 2 benadryl and a rest in the recliner to await the swelling. No swelling at all........go figure.
Three days ago I was again trimming the ivy when I noticed lots of flying bees that turned out to be yellow jackets. I got some wasp spray and from about five feet away began dowsing the area and bee hole. Ran out of spray and as I turned and headed to the house I got stung twice on my right rear cheek. Man, I was slappin and movin but too slow I guess as I got stung twice more on the back of my leg just below my right rear cheek. Finally got into the house and asked Glenda for a couple benadryl. While standing there waiting I got stung again just above my left knee. I jerked the leg of my shorts up and saw a wasp. Out of those shorts in a flash! Shook the wasp out and killed it and checked for any more. As near as I can tell it I think that wasps went up my shorts leg and was probably responsible for all five of my stings.
I took the benadryl and sat in the recliner for over an hour and every so often it felt like one of the stings got stung again. I'm tired typing so I'll just tell you that five stings and no adverse reaction other than the singing stings was one huge huge blessing. Maybe my body has whipped the allergy?
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.~ John Dryden
Sept. 24
Our 2 year old mower hasn't been running properly so I tried changing the oil, air filter and stuck in a new spark plug. No help! I finally went online to find a solution. Learned that I probably had a fuel problem of which I had suspected because every time I was just about to run out of gas the darn thing ran like a new one. Also the new spark plug would foul up after the thing ran for a very few seconds. Spray choke and carb cleaner into the carb and make sure the air filter is clean is what I read.
Next trip to town I bought some choke and carb cleaner and sprayed it good but to no avail. Even ran it without the air filter for a bit but that didn't help either. Back online and after talking to a few folks the next trip to town we picked up a can of Sea Foam to mix in the gas. I mean by now I've got over $20 stuck into that mower!
It would still run and mow but not very good so another trip to Eldon with the mower in tow. Left it at a repair shop where the guy gets an amazing $50 per hour plus any parts needed. He says they always change the oil and sharpen the blade and estimated a $55 cost. I told him that the oil didn't need to be changed and that I could sharpen the blade myself. He then thought around $50 bucks would cover it.
Went back the next day to pick it up and he hadn't even touched it yet tho he had told me he would get on it the day that I had dropped it off. Anyway the next day I went after it again and it was ready. I wasn't ready for the damn $58 bill! Told me he had gone ahead and changed the oil and sharpened the blade anyway saying he didn't think another few bucks over the fifty would cause me any harm. Oh, too he put in a different spark plug instead of cleaning my new one.
I left there broke and pissed but our lawnmower runs like a new one.
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When you walk away from an encounter with another in anger, you've just been defeated. Of course that defeat would be easier than getting you ass whipped after popping the guy in the nose.
Next trip to town I bought some choke and carb cleaner and sprayed it good but to no avail. Even ran it without the air filter for a bit but that didn't help either. Back online and after talking to a few folks the next trip to town we picked up a can of Sea Foam to mix in the gas. I mean by now I've got over $20 stuck into that mower!
It would still run and mow but not very good so another trip to Eldon with the mower in tow. Left it at a repair shop where the guy gets an amazing $50 per hour plus any parts needed. He says they always change the oil and sharpen the blade and estimated a $55 cost. I told him that the oil didn't need to be changed and that I could sharpen the blade myself. He then thought around $50 bucks would cover it.
Went back the next day to pick it up and he hadn't even touched it yet tho he had told me he would get on it the day that I had dropped it off. Anyway the next day I went after it again and it was ready. I wasn't ready for the damn $58 bill! Told me he had gone ahead and changed the oil and sharpened the blade anyway saying he didn't think another few bucks over the fifty would cause me any harm. Oh, too he put in a different spark plug instead of cleaning my new one.
I left there broke and pissed but our lawnmower runs like a new one.
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When you walk away from an encounter with another in anger, you've just been defeated. Of course that defeat would be easier than getting you ass whipped after popping the guy in the nose.
Sept. 23
Well, it's like this. I've been having problems with my laptop till I couldn't take it anymore. I'd be typing along and look up to find the cursor had jumped off somewhere else. Could find myself typing in the middle of a word several sentences up or maybe a menu of some sort would pop up. At times the program I was typing on would just go away. Messed around trying to find a solution but to no avail. Problems seemed to occur when I would hit the space bar. Thinking it must be the key pad to the repair shop I took it.
After the computer had been there for a week I stopped by. There in lay not touched yet! I could have been using it the whole week. The repairman wasn't in but I complained a little to his wife knowing she would poke him a little.
One week later I stopped by and the repairman told me it was on the bench and should be ready the next day. Picked it up the next day and was told that it must have been a software problem because he had ran a tune up program and the problem seemed to be gone. ($22.50) Got home and discovered the problem still existed.
Called him today and he suggested I try my wireless keyboard to see if it would produce the same problem. It didn't so thought the laptop keyboard was the culprit and called him told him so. He said he had a keyboard ($20) just bring it in and he would get right on it. Bagged it up ready to go when he called back. Said he had been reading about the problem and asked me to tape a business card over the touch pad. My thumb could be hitting it when I hit the space bar..........An Arizona Charlies ultimate rewards card and two small pieces of tape and it works perfectly and paying attention I did notice my thumb touching the card a lot when I hit the space bar. He fixed it with a phone call but didn't offer to give me the $22.50 back.
If you don't learn something everyday you ain't payin attention!
After the computer had been there for a week I stopped by. There in lay not touched yet! I could have been using it the whole week. The repairman wasn't in but I complained a little to his wife knowing she would poke him a little.
One week later I stopped by and the repairman told me it was on the bench and should be ready the next day. Picked it up the next day and was told that it must have been a software problem because he had ran a tune up program and the problem seemed to be gone. ($22.50) Got home and discovered the problem still existed.
Called him today and he suggested I try my wireless keyboard to see if it would produce the same problem. It didn't so thought the laptop keyboard was the culprit and called him told him so. He said he had a keyboard ($20) just bring it in and he would get right on it. Bagged it up ready to go when he called back. Said he had been reading about the problem and asked me to tape a business card over the touch pad. My thumb could be hitting it when I hit the space bar..........An Arizona Charlies ultimate rewards card and two small pieces of tape and it works perfectly and paying attention I did notice my thumb touching the card a lot when I hit the space bar. He fixed it with a phone call but didn't offer to give me the $22.50 back.
If you don't learn something everyday you ain't payin attention!
Sept. 6
Whada ya know? If you're reading this we all made it to another day of life. It's time to be thankful and count your blessings! When you're picking blessings out to be thankful for don't get hung up on anything that might not qualify in your mind. I've been told there is always some good in the bad and I believe it is so. Most would try to stretch a near good into being a real good because it is quicker and easier sometimes than finding the for a fact, the true good. Oh well, good is only a personal perception anyway.
What do I know about this? Ha! After 69 years I've seen bushels of both bad and good. I've had my parade rained on so many times that the rawhide on my drum will never be taut again. Now when I strike my drum I only get a 'glug' instead of a 'bong' or 'clackety clack'. I think that might be why some think I march to a different drummer sometimes.
We're all into another day with the mired in knowledge that we have the rest of our lives ahead of us. It is possible to miss out on some of it so you need to stay sharp.
I surly do dream a lot at night and when I wake in the morning I reflect on some of the dreams and if they seem good I go back to sleep for another one. If they weren't so hot I just go ahead and get up forgetting them. If it doesn't provide some satisfaction don't do it. I have a better chance of directing my conscience mind toward something satisfying than one of my subconscious dreams.
Why do I bother typing these at all? Oh, that's my question too.
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"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."-Richard Harding Davis
What do I know about this? Ha! After 69 years I've seen bushels of both bad and good. I've had my parade rained on so many times that the rawhide on my drum will never be taut again. Now when I strike my drum I only get a 'glug' instead of a 'bong' or 'clackety clack'. I think that might be why some think I march to a different drummer sometimes.
We're all into another day with the mired in knowledge that we have the rest of our lives ahead of us. It is possible to miss out on some of it so you need to stay sharp.
I surly do dream a lot at night and when I wake in the morning I reflect on some of the dreams and if they seem good I go back to sleep for another one. If they weren't so hot I just go ahead and get up forgetting them. If it doesn't provide some satisfaction don't do it. I have a better chance of directing my conscience mind toward something satisfying than one of my subconscious dreams.
Why do I bother typing these at all? Oh, that's my question too.
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"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."-Richard Harding Davis
Sunday, August 29, 2010
August 29
I read three papers on-line and once in a while I read a couple more. After that daily bout I'm usually confused with all the crap I've read and pretty sick of the computer. Laid back in the recliner with the computer on my lap does not remedy the sick situation. I'm telling you this so you might better understand why these notes tend to be a little on the sick side and not very informative or interesting. My heart, not being in it, creates an extra hardship for my mind to overcome and as you know it almost always fails.
I hope you can contain your glee knowing that this once near daily note isn't anymore. Seems I can't completely overcome the sadistic pleasure that sending these notes provide but I've been doing pretty good stalling the desire for a day or two or five in between.
Killing time sitting here staring out at the lake just doesn't get it when I could be reading a book or fighting with Glenda.
I'm told we have a trip to Jeff City on the today's to do list. Ha, no step for a stepper.
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.~ Dion Boucicault a
I hope you can contain your glee knowing that this once near daily note isn't anymore. Seems I can't completely overcome the sadistic pleasure that sending these notes provide but I've been doing pretty good stalling the desire for a day or two or five in between.
Killing time sitting here staring out at the lake just doesn't get it when I could be reading a book or fighting with Glenda.
I'm told we have a trip to Jeff City on the today's to do list. Ha, no step for a stepper.
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.~ Dion Boucicault a
August 25
You know you're going to have a good day when........You wake up and mentally realize that you still are and it makes you happy. Happy is a very good way to start every day! Happiness begets happiness! A lot of folks have problems realizing they have been blessed and just take another new day for granted. That attitude seems to skip happy somewhere along the way and an ugly grump can result. Count your blessings!
Sorry, my mind has too many chores this morning and consequently gave me the false impression that today was Sunday and the keyboard and chair set at it's highest position was a pulpit. I believe I have it back under control now.
Old age has been stealing some of the wind from my sails lately. Also I keep getting a mite heavier so as I walk up the hill to the mailbox the old lungs start huffing and puffing big time in an effort to replace the stolen wind enabling me to sail err... navigate right on up the hill. You would be surprised to see how much the wind from the wings of a tiny little horsefly can bellow your sails and increase the speed of which you top the hill. Damn! When they bite they draw blood!
Oh well, so much for nothing.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.~Publilius Syrus
Sorry, my mind has too many chores this morning and consequently gave me the false impression that today was Sunday and the keyboard and chair set at it's highest position was a pulpit. I believe I have it back under control now.
Old age has been stealing some of the wind from my sails lately. Also I keep getting a mite heavier so as I walk up the hill to the mailbox the old lungs start huffing and puffing big time in an effort to replace the stolen wind enabling me to sail err... navigate right on up the hill. You would be surprised to see how much the wind from the wings of a tiny little horsefly can bellow your sails and increase the speed of which you top the hill. Damn! When they bite they draw blood!
Oh well, so much for nothing.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.~Publilius Syrus
August 21
Lost seems like a good word to describe my mental capabilities this morning as well as most other mornings but it is a little bit worse right now. When I try to think, think is the only word I see. If you can't get past think, Katy bar the door and look for the straitjacket. You Can If You Think You Can~Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. I think I can, I think I can. I don't believe this is working. Always been told that crap just flowed out of this mouth like a calf with scours but the problem this morning is leaving me with the thought that I'm suffering from some sort of oral constipation.
Guess I'll quit while the quitting is good. Would have been more good sooner but I missed the mark due to being so engrossed in my think thought.
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.~H. Ross Perot
Guess I'll quit while the quitting is good. Would have been more good sooner but I missed the mark due to being so engrossed in my think thought.
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.~H. Ross Perot
August 20
Little big, and tall ain't all, Glenda had an appointment with the dentist Wednesday so she picked Ruthie up and to Jeff City they a go go. Luckily, with the size of her mouth, they won't be needing to stretch it any to clean her teeth. I'm sitting here now trying to figure out if that was a joke or not. She did get a lot of praise from the dentist about her teeth. Guess he could see all of them pretty well.
Yep, that is why she is about three inches taller than most women, God had to add that to have enough room to put her mouth. Ah, she has heard this old joke enough times you don't need to be telling her.
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Anyway thought I would send a pictures this morning. Probably should have decided that sooner which might have eliminated the last two sentences up there ^.
Yep, that is why she is about three inches taller than most women, God had to add that to have enough room to put her mouth. Ah, she has heard this old joke enough times you don't need to be telling her.
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Anyway thought I would send a pictures this morning. Probably should have decided that sooner which might have eliminated the last two sentences up there ^.
August 19
"Great day in the morning"! Now if we can keep it that way all day we're in for another good time. You know good times aren't just handed out to folks? Nope, you've got to make it so. Cleanse your mind of all that ails you, hang on to a few positives and BAM, there you are. (Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain) The same can be said about good times. There are many unhappy souls that would prefer you join them rather than they join you. Beware of the dragards!
Damn! Again I ran out of anything to say before I said anything! For me a pretty comon thing as you well know.
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We have an opportunity to live in joy. Do not postpone happiness until the debts are settled and relationships rearranged. Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere; we find it inside. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Damn! Again I ran out of anything to say before I said anything! For me a pretty comon thing as you well know.
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We have an opportunity to live in joy. Do not postpone happiness until the debts are settled and relationships rearranged. Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere; we find it inside. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
August 16
I've read all the mail this morning including several sites that we subscribe to searching for a topic to carry up here onto my soapbox. Something must not be clicking in my head because if I found a topic my quick as a snake mind must have ran past without taking the time to recognize it. That or because of my down in the dirt crawly snaky mind, it passed so far over my head that I missed it. All this means is the same old challenge to type anything worthwhile is still as strong as ever.
Aw, don't let me bug you!
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"Forget where you have been earlier. What matters is where you go now."Unknown
Aw, don't let me bug you!
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"Forget where you have been earlier. What matters is where you go now."Unknown
Friday, July 30, 2010
July 30
Naught is pretty well established in my mind again this morning but I think I'll make it through the day anyway. Looking back I can see that I've had almost nothing all of my life yet here I am 69 years down the road with a roof over our heads and food for every meal. I'm not sure how much longer we can hang in here like this but we plan to stay at it for as long as we can. You know it isn't necessary to have a ladder to get a step up on life. Man can go a long ways with nothing.
You do know that you own nothing? So many of our things are just rented, Like your home,the rental payments are yearly and is called a tax. Miss several of those rental payments and there will be a new renter in your place.
Lots of other things that you've acquired to make life better or easier for you and paid a one time tax up front on, is only yours to use while you're here. After your demise another user will be using your stuff mistakenly thinking they own it.
Looky how far I came down this page with nothing. I think I could keep going on down but just for you I'll quit here.
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"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing." -Anon.
You do know that you own nothing? So many of our things are just rented, Like your home,the rental payments are yearly and is called a tax. Miss several of those rental payments and there will be a new renter in your place.
Lots of other things that you've acquired to make life better or easier for you and paid a one time tax up front on, is only yours to use while you're here. After your demise another user will be using your stuff mistakenly thinking they own it.
Looky how far I came down this page with nothing. I think I could keep going on down but just for you I'll quit here.
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"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing." -Anon.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
July 29
My thinking is the youngsters that drive by with their so called music playing as loud as the speakers will allow do so to fend off reality. Man, with all that loud noise a decent thought is hard to have.
I see some that have turned into adults still have retained this stupid trait. Like several people can't seem to ride in their car or walk around their house without the radio playing or some kind of music going. I've mentioned this to some and they usually respond with "I don't even hear it". I say if you aren't hearing it why turn the damn thing on.
I see a lot of walker/joggers go by with pods in their ears as they listen to something. It's like some will do anything not to be alone with their thoughts. Wonder what is in their thinking they fear.
Last example of adults still refusing to face reality is in the fact that among the 88 percent or 89 percent of non-black respondents Obama’s job rating is about 39 percent positive. Blindly they follow their Judas.
My opinion about the noise may be a bit biased because of my hearing impairment. I had to remove my aids this morning, they have a problem when I sweat. Anyway that resulting near total silence sure seemed like a blessing. Really good thinking time! Can't help but wish I was smarter which might give me something worth while to think about.
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." "A man is literally what he thinks"- James Allen
I see some that have turned into adults still have retained this stupid trait. Like several people can't seem to ride in their car or walk around their house without the radio playing or some kind of music going. I've mentioned this to some and they usually respond with "I don't even hear it". I say if you aren't hearing it why turn the damn thing on.
I see a lot of walker/joggers go by with pods in their ears as they listen to something. It's like some will do anything not to be alone with their thoughts. Wonder what is in their thinking they fear.
Last example of adults still refusing to face reality is in the fact that among the 88 percent or 89 percent of non-black respondents Obama’s job rating is about 39 percent positive. Blindly they follow their Judas.
My opinion about the noise may be a bit biased because of my hearing impairment. I had to remove my aids this morning, they have a problem when I sweat. Anyway that resulting near total silence sure seemed like a blessing. Really good thinking time! Can't help but wish I was smarter which might give me something worth while to think about.
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." "A man is literally what he thinks"- James Allen
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
July 28
Speaking of skunks and bad smells, I get to wondering. When a person is around another that is smoking there is a smell and breathing in the exhaled second hand smoke can cause health problems they say.
For my olfactory nerves to detect, in the case of the skunk, some very nasty airborne molecules some of which must subsequently be dissolved in the mucous lining of the nasal cavity to be smelled all creates the I wonder. To smell would only take a small portion of the odor breathed in. How much of a health problem can many breaths of skunk molecules pulled into my lungs cause?
What about while in a crowd you're breathing in a lot of other peoples used carbon dioxide? What about when one detects another person's discharge of intestinal gas? If you're smelling it you're breathing it in! Those nasty old airborne Molecules down into your lungs, YUCK! Probably messes up you DNA?
I've heard a lot of tough people say they wouldn't take any shit from no one. Ha, guess they can't control every little aspect of any given occasion.
That's another good thing about the early morning stroll, it gives me time for some good unencumbered wondering. At least I think it is good for me.
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"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette." - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
For my olfactory nerves to detect, in the case of the skunk, some very nasty airborne molecules some of which must subsequently be dissolved in the mucous lining of the nasal cavity to be smelled all creates the I wonder. To smell would only take a small portion of the odor breathed in. How much of a health problem can many breaths of skunk molecules pulled into my lungs cause?
What about while in a crowd you're breathing in a lot of other peoples used carbon dioxide? What about when one detects another person's discharge of intestinal gas? If you're smelling it you're breathing it in! Those nasty old airborne Molecules down into your lungs, YUCK! Probably messes up you DNA?
I've heard a lot of tough people say they wouldn't take any shit from no one. Ha, guess they can't control every little aspect of any given occasion.
That's another good thing about the early morning stroll, it gives me time for some good unencumbered wondering. At least I think it is good for me.
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"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette." - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
July 27
Horse flies galore! Had one on the back of my neck but was able to knock him off there.........right down the back of my shirt. Man, he wasn't biting but the way he was buzzing said his biggest wish was to get out of there. He didn't know it but I had the same wish only about ten-fold! We both was finally granted our wish but, I don't think he realized his success. I finally dropped him out the bottom of my t-shirt noting that I had pretty well beat him to death.
I had started carrying a fly swatter and it has been a pretty good defense for the fly problem but..........As I walked down Y19K I detected a nasty smell in the air riding along with me. Quite a few strides on down the road I saw a black thing ambling toward me. As it got closer I saw the white streak down it's back and quickly put the nasty smell and a skunk together.
I don't guess the skunk saw me because he kept coming. Now here I'm standing with a fly swatter as the only defensive tool available. What do I do with it? When he turns to spray me do I spank his butt with it? Nope, save the swatter for the flies and give the road to the skunk. My two walkers propelled me a whole different route for my morning walk. Wasn't too bad a walk but I don't really care to walk on gravel roads.
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When nothing is plenty, read one of Larry's old notes, there are many. http://wymers.blogspot.com/
I had started carrying a fly swatter and it has been a pretty good defense for the fly problem but..........As I walked down Y19K I detected a nasty smell in the air riding along with me. Quite a few strides on down the road I saw a black thing ambling toward me. As it got closer I saw the white streak down it's back and quickly put the nasty smell and a skunk together.
I don't guess the skunk saw me because he kept coming. Now here I'm standing with a fly swatter as the only defensive tool available. What do I do with it? When he turns to spray me do I spank his butt with it? Nope, save the swatter for the flies and give the road to the skunk. My two walkers propelled me a whole different route for my morning walk. Wasn't too bad a walk but I don't really care to walk on gravel roads.
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When nothing is plenty, read one of Larry's old notes, there are many. http://wymers.blogspot.com/
Sunday, July 25, 2010
July 25
Another reason that I wish I wasn't so hunky/fat/large is because the darn horse flies seem to think I am one! The flies are really bad now. Of course there are a couple of positives with them as they are and as I am.
The first is they don't scare off very easy and always seem to get a bite or two before they go. So many bites that their take has got to reduced my blood pressure somewhat.
Another reason is the increased calorie using energy that is used to swing both arms constantly for the full three plus miles. Jumping uses a bit more than walking too and that happens with a lot of the bites.
I can't help but wonder what some of the passer-bys think as they see this old man with an irregular jump in his hitch, constantly swinging both arms and the lips moving as if talking to himself. I can't repeat some of the words, but to me I'm not talking, it is the flies to which I speak.
I know it isn't the way it should be done but I take my shower before I take the walk then when I return I just change the wet shirt for a dry one. This morning after removing the wet shirt I happened to look into the mirror. Wow! With all the horse fly bites I looked like the great speckled turd....err I mean bird. No I looked again, the word before the err is the most correct.
Wind blew hard again last evening but the only damage that I noticed on my round was a tree across Memory Lane. That's the road that dead ends at out garage.
So much of nothing I've got but I imagine this dose is probably more than enough for today.
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It's a strange world of language when a sack is a poke, a mule is an ass and then a poke in the ass is a goose.
The first is they don't scare off very easy and always seem to get a bite or two before they go. So many bites that their take has got to reduced my blood pressure somewhat.
Another reason is the increased calorie using energy that is used to swing both arms constantly for the full three plus miles. Jumping uses a bit more than walking too and that happens with a lot of the bites.
I can't help but wonder what some of the passer-bys think as they see this old man with an irregular jump in his hitch, constantly swinging both arms and the lips moving as if talking to himself. I can't repeat some of the words, but to me I'm not talking, it is the flies to which I speak.
I know it isn't the way it should be done but I take my shower before I take the walk then when I return I just change the wet shirt for a dry one. This morning after removing the wet shirt I happened to look into the mirror. Wow! With all the horse fly bites I looked like the great speckled turd....err I mean bird. No I looked again, the word before the err is the most correct.
Wind blew hard again last evening but the only damage that I noticed on my round was a tree across Memory Lane. That's the road that dead ends at out garage.
So much of nothing I've got but I imagine this dose is probably more than enough for today.
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It's a strange world of language when a sack is a poke, a mule is an ass and then a poke in the ass is a goose.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
July 24
Some words from a Claude King song went something like this. "I sat down on a bear trap just this morning, it was camouflaged so I had no warning, I couldn't bear the pain when I ran out of chain, I sat down on a bear trap just his morning."
Well, something like that happened to me. About a year ago I realized that I had sat down on a bear trap and just this morning I ran out of chain. I can barely stand the pain but I ran out of chain yep, turned 69 just this morning.
I can cry if I want, cry if I want to, you might cry too when it happens to you.........oh! maybe you already have.
The end of the chain pain has subsided somewhat and stupid old me turned right around and sat down on another one. Sure home the chain length is at least as long as the last one. I would hate to think it might be any shorter.
Funny how some painful things on one hand can be so sweet on the other. I thank God for the blessing me with the sweet year past and pray his blessings will continue.
Just happened to have a little picture of my birth place. I'll stick it here so you can see that a person can come or go a long ways in 69 years.
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"O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." - Sir Jacob Astley
Well, something like that happened to me. About a year ago I realized that I had sat down on a bear trap and just this morning I ran out of chain. I can barely stand the pain but I ran out of chain yep, turned 69 just this morning.
I can cry if I want, cry if I want to, you might cry too when it happens to you.........oh! maybe you already have.
The end of the chain pain has subsided somewhat and stupid old me turned right around and sat down on another one. Sure home the chain length is at least as long as the last one. I would hate to think it might be any shorter.
Funny how some painful things on one hand can be so sweet on the other. I thank God for the blessing me with the sweet year past and pray his blessings will continue.
Just happened to have a little picture of my birth place. I'll stick it here so you can see that a person can come or go a long ways in 69 years.
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"O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." - Sir Jacob Astley
Friday, July 23, 2010
July 23
I know that you're not necessarily sadden by it but my notes keep getting to become fewer and fewer with lots of time between. I know what the problem but can't fix it. The hour plus walk each morning uses up most of my typing time. That and the emails that I read. Some of those that I pass along are more important than anything I might type anyway. but I'd say the biggest culprit is the walk. How does that saying go? "When I walk the walk, I can't talk the talk."
This morning I carried my new small and lightweight flip camera along to film something exciting but I missed the best. I saw two deer bounce across my path but was too slow pulling the trigger on the camera. As I missed the jumping pair I decided to just film a pair walking which is contained in the attachement. Turning the sound up loud is best.
Viewing the short clip I noticed the shoes look pretty good to be eight years old with over 1,400 counted miles on them over the past year and half. No telling how many non-counted miles have past those soles.
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Walking, in technical terms, is a form of bipedal (or quadripedal) progression in which there are periods of double support, when both feet are on the ground, alternating with periods of single support. http://www.answers.com/topic/walking
This morning I carried my new small and lightweight flip camera along to film something exciting but I missed the best. I saw two deer bounce across my path but was too slow pulling the trigger on the camera. As I missed the jumping pair I decided to just film a pair walking which is contained in the attachement. Turning the sound up loud is best.
Viewing the short clip I noticed the shoes look pretty good to be eight years old with over 1,400 counted miles on them over the past year and half. No telling how many non-counted miles have past those soles.
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Walking, in technical terms, is a form of bipedal (or quadripedal) progression in which there are periods of double support, when both feet are on the ground, alternating with periods of single support. http://www.answers.com/topic/walking
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
July 7
Yesterday that heavy humidity finally turned into rain drops and showered upon us 2.4" of that wet stuff called rain..............That is if my neighbor didn't mess with our rain gauge.
Whatever, it failed to empty the air. I spent about seven minutes in the shower this morning followed by another hour of shower. It showered on me for the whole hour of my wade and more is in the forecast. What a blessing, can't live without it!
Gave a little thought to the extra carbon that I emit during the walks which caused me to pay special attention to the trees and plants along my route. Noticed that the ones just prior to my reaching the top of some of these hills and for several yards beyond are fuller that those along the level. Isn't nature amazing? When I'm huffing, emitting the most carbon and sucking the oxygen the hardest, the plants happily accept it and then in turn, with their more leafed condition return an extra allotment of oxygen just where I'm most in need of it.
And..........I haven't even seen a bull over the last many years.
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." - Richard Whately
Whatever, it failed to empty the air. I spent about seven minutes in the shower this morning followed by another hour of shower. It showered on me for the whole hour of my wade and more is in the forecast. What a blessing, can't live without it!
Gave a little thought to the extra carbon that I emit during the walks which caused me to pay special attention to the trees and plants along my route. Noticed that the ones just prior to my reaching the top of some of these hills and for several yards beyond are fuller that those along the level. Isn't nature amazing? When I'm huffing, emitting the most carbon and sucking the oxygen the hardest, the plants happily accept it and then in turn, with their more leafed condition return an extra allotment of oxygen just where I'm most in need of it.
And..........I haven't even seen a bull over the last many years.
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." - Richard Whately
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
July 6
Well howdy, Dory is going to Columbia along with a few pals to shop. She is leaving little old dutiful me here again to watch over the livestock and guard the home front. I don't mind it at all!
I do worry a little about her shopping but not too much. She is fairly frugal and is very well aware of our financial circumstance which encourages me to believe that she will shop till she drops but buy nary a thing. What a sweet heart!
I did slip her five bucks to buy her lunch. She could have gotten by with a good meal at McDonald for only three bucks and received some change back but the smallest bill I had was the five. Maybe she'll bring me a couple bucks back.
We received .8" of rain last night with the possibility of more hanging in the air. I mean hanging thick! I expect that it will form some drops and begin falling any minute. My three miles this morning was more like wading accompanied with a few butterfly strokes instead of a walk. And at the end I was as wet as if I had been in the lake.
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Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
I do worry a little about her shopping but not too much. She is fairly frugal and is very well aware of our financial circumstance which encourages me to believe that she will shop till she drops but buy nary a thing. What a sweet heart!
I did slip her five bucks to buy her lunch. She could have gotten by with a good meal at McDonald for only three bucks and received some change back but the smallest bill I had was the five. Maybe she'll bring me a couple bucks back.
We received .8" of rain last night with the possibility of more hanging in the air. I mean hanging thick! I expect that it will form some drops and begin falling any minute. My three miles this morning was more like wading accompanied with a few butterfly strokes instead of a walk. And at the end I was as wet as if I had been in the lake.
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Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Monday, June 28, 2010
June 28
How can a person be all by themselves and not be alone? Memories my man, memories. I've got 68 years of them stored and they are with me all the time. Well, I may not have a full 68 years worth but I've got a pretty huge collection anyway. They are a mixed bunch but it seems the good ones are holding their own against the bad ones even tho I've heard bad is always the easiest to remember.
Why do I bring this up? The first reason is that I again have nothing I really want to type about and secondly, which probably should have been the first one, Dory is leaving me here again with the animals while she goes to her weekly Mahjong session with a few other oldies.
I do happen to have a handy dandy list provided by Dory, of a few chores that could be done in her absence. I don't know why the words mowing the lawn looks so much nicer than vacuuming. And besides, I vacuumed yesterday. We'll do what we'll do and maybe a few things that we didn't think we'd do. To sum it up, it's going to be one of those doo-doo days around here.
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The things that come to those that wait may only be the things left by those who got there first.~Db
Why do I bring this up? The first reason is that I again have nothing I really want to type about and secondly, which probably should have been the first one, Dory is leaving me here again with the animals while she goes to her weekly Mahjong session with a few other oldies.
I do happen to have a handy dandy list provided by Dory, of a few chores that could be done in her absence. I don't know why the words mowing the lawn looks so much nicer than vacuuming. And besides, I vacuumed yesterday. We'll do what we'll do and maybe a few things that we didn't think we'd do. To sum it up, it's going to be one of those doo-doo days around here.
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The things that come to those that wait may only be the things left by those who got there first.~Db
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
June 22
Well now and then things happy happen even around here. Very early this morning I thought one of those times was going to come to pass when Dory said to me, "Larry, why don't we together do that happy and exciting thing today?" My response was an exciting and loud okay!
Stupid me then asked, "what about your migraine or what ever? She replied with, "isn't it funny how that seems to dissipate when I'm playing one of those machines at the Boonville boat?"
Yep, we're off to Boonville in a little bit. A free haha room for the night along with two free haha buffets and they're giving each of us a $5.00 cash gift just to accept the free haha's. Whoopee dang do!
One of us is happy about the plan while the other is a mite disappointed while telling himself that he should have a little happy thought thinking about how we can still do a few exciting things together.
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Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by golly, never." - Hans Richter
Stupid me then asked, "what about your migraine or what ever? She replied with, "isn't it funny how that seems to dissipate when I'm playing one of those machines at the Boonville boat?"
Yep, we're off to Boonville in a little bit. A free haha room for the night along with two free haha buffets and they're giving each of us a $5.00 cash gift just to accept the free haha's. Whoopee dang do!
One of us is happy about the plan while the other is a mite disappointed while telling himself that he should have a little happy thought thinking about how we can still do a few exciting things together.
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Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by golly, never." - Hans Richter
Sunday, June 20, 2010
June 20
On the little walk the other day I came upon an armadillo. I don't think they see very well as I was just inches away from him before he turned and fled the road. Such claws I've never seen. Got to wondering how much damage could be inflicted on a bare leg as I watched it scuttle off. It must have been wondering too and could have decided to find out because it turned around and came back towards me at a high rate of speed. Don't think for a minute that those animals are always slow!
Anyway, before he got to me, I left the area at a much faster pace than that at which I had arrived. Didn't look back either so can't say what he did or where he went.
Don't think an armadillo would really attack a person but didn't feel obligated to stay around to find out. This armadillo may have just been having a bad day or maybe someone had run over his brother and he is still mad about it. Who knows what might be going on in those pointy little heads.
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates
Anyway, before he got to me, I left the area at a much faster pace than that at which I had arrived. Didn't look back either so can't say what he did or where he went.
Don't think an armadillo would really attack a person but didn't feel obligated to stay around to find out. This armadillo may have just been having a bad day or maybe someone had run over his brother and he is still mad about it. Who knows what might be going on in those pointy little heads.
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates
Thursday, June 17, 2010
June 17
Lake living is okay but a few things still bother me. One incorporates another old saying....kinda. I have nursed a fear of eating apples almost for as long as we've lived here. Afraid that if I would eat one a day our doc would float off never to return.
Another thing is walking these hills. I still top each hill huffing and puffing like an old cho cho and it takes awhile to get it back down to normal. Just about normal it's time to take on the next hill. I don't mind that but the mixed up pecker gnats keep swarming my nose and because of my hard breathing I've sucked in a couple at times. Spit, spit spit, you never know what they had been swarming before they found my nose.
Constantly trying to shoo those gnats causes drive-bys to think I'm a very friendly person because it appears that I'm waving at them. Now when the horse flies begin to find me the drive-bys think sad thoughts about me because of the stick I carry. When used to run the flies off my body it appears that I'm beating myself in an attempt to force the walk out of me.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but my poorly thought words can surely do a greater damage. But what the hey, I'm not looking for a job anyway.
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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Another thing is walking these hills. I still top each hill huffing and puffing like an old cho cho and it takes awhile to get it back down to normal. Just about normal it's time to take on the next hill. I don't mind that but the mixed up pecker gnats keep swarming my nose and because of my hard breathing I've sucked in a couple at times. Spit, spit spit, you never know what they had been swarming before they found my nose.
Constantly trying to shoo those gnats causes drive-bys to think I'm a very friendly person because it appears that I'm waving at them. Now when the horse flies begin to find me the drive-bys think sad thoughts about me because of the stick I carry. When used to run the flies off my body it appears that I'm beating myself in an attempt to force the walk out of me.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but my poorly thought words can surely do a greater damage. But what the hey, I'm not looking for a job anyway.
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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sunday, June 13, 2010
June 13
A partly cloudy start for this day and I believe there is possible rain in the forecast for later in the day and tonight but who ever knows for sure? We can take it and will give as little thought as we can to how fast it is making the grass grow causing the need to mow more often. In these high humidity and hot days I myself might neigh run out of gas before I get all the grass cut each time.
The lawn mower running on that $2.599 gas just barely making it through two mow jobs keeps we wondering which will happen first, me running out of gas completely (a nice way to say die) or us running out of money.
I guess the actual dying can be easy but sometimes it can be a hard and rough place to get to. I for one hope big time that my mamma had an easy time giving me birth. You know how it is, easy come, easy go. If that is so the hard earned money is going to be hard to run out of. That's just nuts and so far not anywhere near true. Must be the hard to run out of is the part that is wrong. We're running out of it which seems to be easy but it sure is hard on the account to pay our bills.
Humm, wait a minute. Stopping this typing and hitting send is pretty easy but the looking for some kind of content that always ends in nothing is never easy. Nothing! Wait a minute! Everyone knows nothing is easy. What was I thinking?
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The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.-Thomas Powers
The lawn mower running on that $2.599 gas just barely making it through two mow jobs keeps we wondering which will happen first, me running out of gas completely (a nice way to say die) or us running out of money.
I guess the actual dying can be easy but sometimes it can be a hard and rough place to get to. I for one hope big time that my mamma had an easy time giving me birth. You know how it is, easy come, easy go. If that is so the hard earned money is going to be hard to run out of. That's just nuts and so far not anywhere near true. Must be the hard to run out of is the part that is wrong. We're running out of it which seems to be easy but it sure is hard on the account to pay our bills.
Humm, wait a minute. Stopping this typing and hitting send is pretty easy but the looking for some kind of content that always ends in nothing is never easy. Nothing! Wait a minute! Everyone knows nothing is easy. What was I thinking?
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The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.-Thomas Powers
Thursday, June 03, 2010
June 3
Mild and muggy to begin our day here. I mean you almost need to cut a hole in the humidity to get through it! Mild will be leaving us shortly as really hot arrives to fill in all the cracks. Well, coupled up with muggy they do. I'm not certain that fill the cracks is as correct as clean the cracks. Shoot, I don't know what you would call it but after only a little time outdoors you'll begin to feel a watery solution creeping down all your cracks and crevices and even down the back of your neck. On top of that the solution is also capable of messing with your vision. Makes that "I'm hot to trot" saying sound kinda stupid to me but there seems to be nothing wrong with "when you're hot you're hot".
I can see clearly now as I sit in here looking out the window with the air-conditioned running. Then as my gaze drops to the monitor, I can see clearly that I should have let another day whiz on by without attempting a note. I almost always just type and send on guts alone anyway so what the heck.
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"The path of least resistance takes you nowhere." Anon
I can see clearly now as I sit in here looking out the window with the air-conditioned running. Then as my gaze drops to the monitor, I can see clearly that I should have let another day whiz on by without attempting a note. I almost always just type and send on guts alone anyway so what the heck.
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"The path of least resistance takes you nowhere." Anon
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
June 1
Yesterday we allowed the non-caring intimidating boat dock destroyers run us out of the kitchen. Well, you know what I mean, we couldn't stand the heat created by the worry so we packed up and went to Boonville. Before we went to bed last night found out that financial losses can heat you up more than loud careless boaters. Now what to do? We're burnt up at both ends.
Ah, now that I've had my shower and two cups of coffee my outlook has changed somewhat. I've heard said that when one is winning he/she is hot, so I've thought about it and think it needs to be a controlled heat. I think I have that in my power this morning......Only time will tell. I'll work on that a little more on my three mile hike this morning. I walk across the Missouri River bridge then back up through town. Only takes a little over an hour but it is a really good money saving hour.
After our free 'ha ha' buffet we'll stop by 'Dirty Harry's Dog Care', pick Mikey up and head home with high hopes that the dock is still there and not showing the beating it took. That sure would be cool!
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The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
Ah, now that I've had my shower and two cups of coffee my outlook has changed somewhat. I've heard said that when one is winning he/she is hot, so I've thought about it and think it needs to be a controlled heat. I think I have that in my power this morning......Only time will tell. I'll work on that a little more on my three mile hike this morning. I walk across the Missouri River bridge then back up through town. Only takes a little over an hour but it is a really good money saving hour.
After our free 'ha ha' buffet we'll stop by 'Dirty Harry's Dog Care', pick Mikey up and head home with high hopes that the dock is still there and not showing the beating it took. That sure would be cool!
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The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
May 29
All six doctors agreed that the bump was a benign ganglion cyst however..........it was higher than it should be on Glenda's wrist and that with her history they cut it out and had it checked to make double darn sure. There did seem to be some concern that we noticed when they kept sending us to another doctor three times. Each of the three visits had two doctor's to look it over. Felt real good and relieved to see the results being nothing more than a ganglion cyst.
After the operation the cutter asked Glenda to keep the place absolutely dry. Wow, we had to wrap her hand in a bread wrapper and tape the top just to allow her the ability to wash dishes. We also used the bread wrap so she could shower. They did take the bandage off leaving two small see through strips of tape that will eventually fall off they say. The tiny cut is healing well and not quite a half inch long. Doesn't look bad at all.
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"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself" - James Van Der Zee
After the operation the cutter asked Glenda to keep the place absolutely dry. Wow, we had to wrap her hand in a bread wrapper and tape the top just to allow her the ability to wash dishes. We also used the bread wrap so she could shower. They did take the bandage off leaving two small see through strips of tape that will eventually fall off they say. The tiny cut is healing well and not quite a half inch long. Doesn't look bad at all.
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"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself" - James Van Der Zee
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