June 28, 2005
How about another Mom story?
My mother and I were talking about housework a while ago.
I told her that I didn’t have a specific cleaning schedule, and that I just did what I felt like doing at the time. (this approach worked for me).
My mother said, “If I waited till I ‘felt like it’, I’d have to saw off the back bedroom!"
Got any Mom stories you'd like to share?
My mother died a few years ago, and I don't think I ever saw her as she actually was.
As I think of her now, I realize she said a lot of very humorous things.
It's a shame I didn't recognize that when she was still around.
June 24, 2005
True story
When I stopped taking piano lessons, my mother tried to give our old piano away. She tried several schools, churches, and assorted friends.
She couldn't find any takers.
So she sold it for $25.00.
Not an Urban legend
This is actually true, not an urban legend -
This is an actual photograph — or rather, composite of photos —taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
This picture was posted on NASA's Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day on May 16, 2003.
Since then,it has been posted on lots of Websites and called "The Eye of God"
The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery.
Amazing!
The Hubble completes one orbit around the Earth (crossing over the same longitude line) every 97 minutes. Its estimated speed is 8 km per second (5 miles per second).
June 21, 2005
No wonder I don’t like to drive.
Here's this car coming down the wrong lane - my lane - at a busy intersection.
It took me a moment (actually, I don’t know how long it took) to figure out that I was nearing a very painful situation, but then, just in the nick or time, I swerved to my right and saved the day!
Every Day a new adventure
June 20, 2005
Maybe I need a Vacation
As I was eating my breakfast of cold cereal, bananas and blueberries (how healthy can you get?), I spent a little time reading the cereal box.
The weight on this particular box of cereal was listed as 1 lb. 1. 3oz. That seemed a little strange to me.
As I was researching weights of boxes of cereals, I came upon this site
There were lots of different weights, but not this one.
And to go even one step forward in my research,
I discovered that according to these people,
(and I find this very interesting),
“The cereal box is one of the most read items in the home,
read on average 2.6 times”
Maybe I should get a life.
I mean, really, researching the weights of boxes of cereals!
June 17, 2005
Willow, Petunia and Willoughby
An update to the Dove story
What a nice family.
And I was told that the proud Dove parents spent some time
in a nearby tree admiring their new family the day after this picture was taken.
Have a great weekend.
I hope the weather is as nice where you are as it is
here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Happy Birthday "M"
June 15, 2005
My Father
My father had a "terrible pain" in his head when he was about 60 years old.
He thought it was a brain tumor.
My mother said "Take an aspirin - you have a headache"
He took the aspirin and the pain went away. It was his first ever headache.
We all should be that lucky!
Actually, I have a headache right now.
Maybe I should take an aspirin or something.
June 13, 2005
The Dove Family
Doves -
My buddy “M” from work sent me this picture.
They have been following the progress of this little family ever since they discovered either Mommy or Daddy Dove (who can tell Doves apart) sitting on eggs in a nest in a hanging basket of petunias on their balcony.
They have been watering the plant with a turkey baster – that way both the birds and the plant can survive.
I wonder if they’ll get to see the little one(s) fly from the nest.
Thanks so much for sharing K&M
June 11, 2005
EMBARRASED AS A KID
I was so embarrassed by my parent’s first names – now isn’t that pretty silly?
Their names were Mildred and Fred. Not the greatest, but not that bad.
Did anything silly embarrass you when you were a kid?
June 09, 2005
Alarm Clock
This device is an alarm clock that aims to wake you up, allowing you one press of the snooze button.
You see, when the alarm goes off, and you hit snooze, it rolls off of the surface it is sitting on and finds a hiding spot.
The direction that is travels is completely random.
This means that when the alarm goes off again,
you are going to have to get up to find the clock in order to turn off the alarm.
Is this a good thing?
June 07, 2005
My best wishes to all of you
I recently read about the health problems of an online friend of mine.
I’ve been visiting this blog site ever since I discovered blog-land, about 2 years ago. And after all this time, I find that this blogger has serious health problems.
I feel so helpless, because there’s nothing I can do but send my best wishes.
It’s hard to realize how much you learn to care about these “faceless” friends of ours. And I’d like to say that I value my “Blog Friends” very highly.
Most of my “blog stuff” is frivolous, with silly graphics to hopefully hit the point home. And I hope I’ve given you a smile or a chuckle or two.
I hope you all are well, or are on the way to being healthy, wealthy and wise.
Thank you for stopping by.
June 06, 2005
Murphy Lives Here - on occasion
Wow - I barely got finished watering my newly planted garden, and the rains came.
And it's still at it.
Maybe I should log off till the thunder storm is over!
It's pretty close to us.
June 05, 2005
STIR FRIED ASPARAGUS
Iif you happen to be a veggie lover like me, then this should be a real treat for you. This is a good time of year to try this, 'cause asparagus is plentiful just now.
Easy to fix, of course.
The recipe is listed in the extended entry
Stir Fried Asparagus & Mushrooms
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 bouillon cube ( I use chicken)
1/4 teaspoon fresh thyme (dried if you don't have an herb garden)
1 sun dried tomato snipped
1 pound fresh asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces
1 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms
In small bowl, stir water, cornstarch, bouillon, tyme and tomato. Set aside.
Stir fry asparagus 4 minutes. Add mushrooms stir fry 1- 1/2 minutes. Add cornstarch mix. Stir fry 2 minutes more. Serve
June 03, 2005
I've been gardening and just remembered..
Slugs – I hate them.
As soon as I see (or worse, touch) one of those fellas, my gardening is done for the day.
Sorry, I just can’t help myself. I hate those things.