I believe I'm reasonably patient. I know about waiting in line. A necessity of life.
I took my lab form to the hospital lab, busy, busy, busy, to accommodate my housemate who needed an endoscopy. I figured I'd get my blood test while she was under the anesthesia. Then have lunch at the cafeteria before heading to Lowe's to buy some paint.
Her procedure was over before I got out of the lunch room. My registration was one big snafu. (Someday I'll tell you what snafu means.)
But we can rise above such irritations by consulting the sages.
Here then, a French Proverb: "Write your injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble."
Now that is something worth embracing.
"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." Romain Gary
Hmmm! I wonder if women are exempt from that advice? Naw! Just kidding. It reminds me when reading the bible with my high school boyfriend, he would add, after all those manly quotes, "That means generic man, man or woman." I might be a bit cynical, here. Bible, men only need apply?
Well, I ran across this Doctor's Office scenario by Ron Dentinger from Dodgeville, Wisconsin:
"My friend called his doctor's office for an appointment and was told, "'I'm sorry sir, we cannot fit you in for at least six weeks."
"I could be dead by then!"
"No problem, if your wife let's us know, we'll cancel the appointment."
Aha! That made me laugh. I guess I didn't fail the sages after all. Thanks to Ron.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
PASSWORD PRISON
I’m ranting today. Not about politics. I have not been blogging
regularly and suddenly, I’m asked to sign in with my password that I
haven’t used in years and I can’t remember. But, to get a new password
for my blogspot blog, I must have them send it to me on my g-mail
address, which password I also can’t seem to find on my 8 pages of
passwords. Crossed out and changed, I have no idea which one is
current.
Google bought blogger and everything has to be Google. Google is trying to take over the world and I try to avoid all things Google.
My frustration is the rant. I hate a zillion passwords. We are told not to use the same one for everything. But a new password for everything is not working. Every time you have a snag you change your password. In a hurry. And Google bought blogger. Grrr! In the interest of my sanity I have to laugh at my self-made password prison. Maybe I can find a quote that addresses passwords? Hmm. Unlikely.
But there are a lot of them about fools.
“The world is full of fools and; and he who would not wish to see one, should break his mirror.” Boileau
“There is a foolish corner even in the brain of a sage.” Aristotle
As for prison: “We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells…” Kahlil Gibran
Google bought blogger and everything has to be Google. Google is trying to take over the world and I try to avoid all things Google.
My frustration is the rant. I hate a zillion passwords. We are told not to use the same one for everything. But a new password for everything is not working. Every time you have a snag you change your password. In a hurry. And Google bought blogger. Grrr! In the interest of my sanity I have to laugh at my self-made password prison. Maybe I can find a quote that addresses passwords? Hmm. Unlikely.
But there are a lot of them about fools.
“The world is full of fools and; and he who would not wish to see one, should break his mirror.” Boileau
“There is a foolish corner even in the brain of a sage.” Aristotle
As for prison: “We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells…” Kahlil Gibran
Saturday, March 28, 2015
SPRING TIME IN DROUGHT, NEW BROWSER
The way Jim and I have traveled in the past, I’m rarely home for daffodils or my spring flowers. The special varieties like these, bloom later than the old standard golden yellows.
I waited so long to take a picture of this variety, it is almost eaten up by bugs.
The goldens are now gone but I did manage to catch a couple.
A golden hybrid with an orange colored center.
Also gone are the forsythia blooms, that come out on bare wood. The green leaves have replaced the flowers.
The grape hyacinths are lost now in tall grasses.
Pink cherry and wild Indian peach blossoms also bloom on bare wood.
They’ve been replaced by pink apple blossoms that bloom after leaf out.
For weeks, now, the air is fragrant with lilacs. They are just beginning to fade, but when warmed by the sun, they still send up that marvelous fragrance.
I took these photos over a period of time and have really enjoyed my yard. Yesterday I pulled weeds for an hour and found out how out of practice I am. The muscles said, “we don’t do this any more.” I used to spend hours pulling foxtails and needle grass, and other undesirables.
This rhododendron is woody and barely blooms because it belongs in a rainforest and here it gets no water except rain, a decision made two years ago. It is still hanging on.
Bulbs don’t mind the drought.
Red Valerian is hardy in a barrel.
My plan for the drought is to replace everything that dies with lavender, rosemary and sages. They are hardy and require little water. Lavender attracts bees as well and they were busy on this plant. What’s not to like?
My housemate loves petunias and she somehow gets two years out of them.
It makes sense to have flowers in containers that don’t require so much water to keep them alive.
Well established plants close to the house will get minimum water. It is a big investment in landscaping, but my choices were not good for a long drought. I’m working on getting my well up and running. Hopefully it still has water. I’m looking into a rainwater catchment system, too. I just read the bad news about melting ice shelfs and the Solomon Islands that are barely above the water and losing ground rapidly to sea levels.we have rough years ahead.
We have to make do with less. I noticed that figs survive on rain. My orchard now has four trees instead of twelve. The almonds and stone fruits are long gone. If I get the well up an running, I’ll try for figs and hazelnuts as orchard food crops. Maybe strawberries in a mini green house along with my chicken eggs. My survivalist mentality.
I am enjoying my yard and my new browser, a relative of Mozilla Firefox that was so contaminated i was afraid to download it a third time. It is called SeaMonkey. I feel like my computer is a friend, again.
Ciao
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