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is there a doctor in the house?

2011-04-05T08:20:00.003-05:00

woo hoo college of medicine class of 2015! Can you guess the school?

speaking of medicine... here is a free read onThe Ethnopharmacology of Ayahuasca by Rafael Guimarães dos Santos. The Ethnopharmacology of Ayahuasca is available online as an e-book with several means of access, detailed also here: http://www.psychointegrator.com/?p=638

low tides

2011-04-04T16:03:00.002-05:00

seen one, seen them all?

seen what they uncover?
head out with me to load the sea mulch for my garden!!

What would you do if a red tailed hawk built a nest in your backyard oak tree and started protecting it by divebombing you and the neighbors?

Would you have the patience to allow it to raise her babies?
the nest is 40 foot above the ground. The birds began building the nest in early March. A lot of people will wait out the three to four weeks until the eggs are hatched . . . that usually ends the adult birds' aggressive behavior... or use an umbrella when walking outside.

Not here, a hawk of a different kind, retired Army Brig. Gen. Dudley Gordon won his right to remove the nest with aggressive attack on the application process to even remove the nest. 90 days and a $500 fee to process was waived?

hatchlings removed from their mother

General chose a gated community. Should he have picked a no fly zone too!

times up

2011-03-06T07:55:00.004-05:00

I saw a marbled pattern, that took me back to my childhood...the marbled pattern reminded me of a diary I took to camp......then I am sailing...through my memories ....... maybe it was young personhood...since I'm now in my remembrance of wanting to live at camp so much that I applied only for camp counselor positions. There was the camp in North Carolina for water director... I always figured I lost that job telling the owner of the camp, as she drove me,to a mountain lake that housed the sailboats and canoes I did not much care for the job's title: "no one could really direct water".... or maybe it was telling her campers picking their own apple story was not unique, I had done it growing up at Sanford's hockey camp.

I probably was out of her class element... She really never appeared to me to be a camper in her heart. She lavishly lived in a huge home, high on the mountain with vistas of the valley, she drove a mercedes coupe... she wore all white... how many outdoors folks wear all white... desert robes don't count... beekeeper garb excluded too... even her hair was all white. Or grey haha... o well how would my life have changed... working for the snowwhite queen of camps.
I got my first job rejection... in a matter of fact, you don't fit in to our camp image letter. I drove a vega, wore my skirt with boots and chose to eat my own sandwich?

I went on to become a camp unit leader at Camp Arrowhead...
writing in my diary... should pull it out to see what a gal I was. See maybe I should have shown I can do more then sail, I could draw her a carolina wren with a white conte crayon!

Have you ever owned a possession that took you on a journey?
I think, when I was young, everything made me imagine. Now....

why do they call it liquid water?

2011-02-25T13:47:00.005-05:00

We don't call ice ...ice water/nor water ice.
Steam is not called water steam nor water humidity.

Water will do it. Just say water.

My water is all froze up inside these lovelies.

Lycopersicon esculentum. She produces high yields of glossy red grape shapes, very sweet and perfect for salads. Holds on her vine longer than any other cherry tomato I have grown and seems to be resistant to cracking.
Have you seen the price of tomatoes going up?
Here tomatoes and green peppers are being taken off of menus because of reduced availability and price increases.

Hold the tomatoes: Cold weather forces restaurants to adapt to shortages
Unseasonable freezes to the south mean shortages in cucumbers, bell peppers and the BLT staple, among other crops
February 16, 2011|By Gregory Karp, Tribune reporter

Freezing weather across the South and in Mexico recently damaged tomato, cucumber and bell pepper crops, leading to shortages and price hikes.

That has left some restaurants scrambling to revamp their sandwiches and salads, and smaller quantities of some produce at many grocery stores.

"It's sort of like the perfect storm — Florida, Texas and Mexico all get hit with unseasonably cold weather, which decreased the yields of tomatoes and cucumbers," said Gary Karp (no relation), executive vice president for Technomic, a food industry market-research firm. "It's going to take about 60 days or so before new tomatoes and other replacement products can come to market."

2010-09-23T18:32:00.000-05:00

Hmmm... One can kill a person with one of these things!" What did I know - they can be used as weapons:Montana woman fends off bear attack with zucchini

Police say a Montana woman fended off a bear attack with an unlikely weapon — a zucchini.

Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli says a 200-pound black bear attacked one of the woman's dogs just after midnight Wednesday on the back porch of her home about 15 miles west of Missoula.

When the woman, whom police did not name, tried to separate the animals, the bear bit her in the leg.

Maricelli says the woman reached for the nearest object at hand on the porch's railing — a large zucchini that she had harvested from her garden.

The woman flung the vegetable at the bear, striking it and forcing it to flee.

The comments are funny, too, like this one, "The bear was obviously a teenager. Everyone knows teenagers are repulsed by zuchini." ROFL

Mood brightener!

2010-09-10T08:31:00.003-05:00

Of course a lot of what we are talking on the island these days entails wedding plans... and toasts music and vows
remember "L'Chaim" from Fiddler on the Roof. So sweet! Here is some serious vocalizing from a groom (who happens to be a Tony winner and creator of "In the Heights") and his dad.
How about this? Isn't this the ultimate plan!

so all wedding goers this has to be seen

September 08, 2010

To Life: Vanessa's Wedding Surprise

My surprise for my wife Vanessa on our wedding day. All of Vanessa's close friends and family rehearsed for a month in secret, leading up to the reception. What we lack in polish, we hopefully make up for in joy and love. In any event, everyone in this video has one thing in common: We'd do anything to show Vanessa how much we love her."

Grace at Lowtides

2010-08-22T07:19:00.004-05:00

You know the tide is going out when the stories keeping stretching on down the beach on ya.
Should I be purging the keys to my life. Photo to follow....as a visual you will have to bear with me ....I see always before I type.
Talking about seeing something before you do it.
Have you seen Wasteland?

The artist sees the art in the world's largest landfill> He shoots the lives of the scavengers living off what they have earned looking for treasures in our waste. Simply amazing how a photographer can find the positive side, show improvements, while showing everyone in the world we can be better.
It is up to us!

I have to write my annual significant accomplishments for the year tonight. What we do for $$. Talking raising money I'm a hole sponsor!
How funny is that? For who the whole tolls! Photos will follow for this one too. haha
Speaking of work

The before and (to be continued) the after:

Remember copier humor. How we would pass copies around.

Office copy machines united in a small world!

Here is the transcription on the a letter sent to me from an old friend.

Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institute
207 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20078

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled "211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull." We have given this specimen a careful and detailed examination, and regret to inform you that we disagree with your theory that it represents "conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago." Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll, of the variety one of our staff, who has small children, believes to be the "Malibu Barbie". It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings.

However, we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to its modern origin:

1. The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.

2. The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.

3. The dentition pattern evident on the "skull" is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the "ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams" you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time. This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail, let us simply say that:

A. The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.

B. Clams don't have teeth.

It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon-dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in its normal operation, and partly due to carbon dating's notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD, and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results.

Sadly, we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation's Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name "Australopithecus spiff-arino." Speaking personally, I, for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn't really sound like it might be Latin.

However, we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil, it is, nonetheless, yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly. You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution, and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard.

We eagerly anticipate your trip to our nation's capital that you proposed in your last letter, and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it. We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the "trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix" that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive wrench.

Yours in Science,
Harvey Rowe, Curator, Antiquities

:::::::::::::::Barbie and Ken sitting in a tree k i s s i n g::::
Typing antiquities again...
I have my child hood sled, should it find a new home? I don't have an attic, basement or garage. I was a big child, almost tobaggon size
(to be continued)

the after:

my youngest gets engaged!

2010-08-08T07:37:00.002-05:00

Don't you love the ironing board!

Guess we need the photographer to take an engagement photo of the couple!

I think the only photos I have of them together are from his senior year in high school. And yes, he is going to marry his high school sweetheart.

pull on your knee high socks this summer!

2010-06-25T09:23:00.005-05:00

::::Waving::::Hey there to Mary Beth and Aunt Jenny!

Good to read you both!

Aunt Jenny, my feet seem to be getting bigger. The other night at bowling I had to go back to change my shoes out to a 9 1/2 because I could hardly get my toes uncrunched!

I bowled a 300!

Took 3 games to do it tho! hahaha!

My work mates and I have a team and are bowling after work against other retailers. We call it "happy hour bowling" ... however we bowl more than an hour, we go at it from 9:30 to midnight!
Makes for a short night when we have to be back at the store at 7am!

Here are our "happy hour" socks in our bowling shoes! My legs are the cat in the hat socks!

Got caterpillars?

2010-05-05T08:46:00.004-05:00

hi (((Aunt Jenny)))
Your gang has been in my thoughts and prayers too!
I have not heard of an island chef on chopped. I used my beeautiful Jenny embroidered towels this morning!
What size shoe do you wear?

could you put on these boots on and use those crystals for power!
I am having trouble figuring out the slope we will have to trudge up??

The slope of the line through points P and Q is 3/2. What is the value of K?

our choices are 5,6,7,8

I'm more likely to slide down a slippery slope! I fell almost into the lily pond this morning pulling vines and I was on flat ground!

I came in this morning, I'm taking a lunch break from my new latest garden wall project.
Besides my fall...
A caterpillar fell out of the sky onto me this morning. My Pop-Pop had a story on pillars and caterpillars.
When I was little and would pick up a caterpillar from his garden, he would ask:
do you know the difference between a CATER-pillar and a Pillar.

I tried answering caterpillars have loads of legs and pillars only one.
He would tell me:
Pillars, yes, have a firm leg to hold up a community building.

I would say...Caterpillars are alive and mushy.

He would ask: do you think people can unknowingly start a blight by picking up a caterpillar?
How quick do you think I dropped it!

He then would tell us: The pillars are made of stone, while they support the building/community within, they are inflexible.
The caterpillars are alive, worming their way in and out of the building held up by the pillars.

Caterpillars will spread their wings. Caterpillars will beckon the lives of our garden community to keep growing by moving nectar and pollens.

Are there many ways to invoke change.... what makes you move faster?
New boots might slow me down. I did get some of the new maryjane shape ups for work. They rock me...do you remember earth shoes.

Do we move faster when we are made to feel different, guilty or frightened into taking action?
Got that slope yet?

you ain't so big...you just tall, that's all

2010-04-29T06:04:00.007-05:00

Why is the spring of the year so compelling?

Everything that lives must grow.
People change, we mature, we develop. Our minds and understanding expand. Our capacity to love stretches.
It is exciting to feel this growth take place. When the water pushes the leaves down the canal and the fiddleheads push up through the lilies, when the snowbirds wheel overhead in their magnificent V formation, why do our hearts lift, our spirits soar?

We are straining forward, bursting out of a shell. Life knows no standing still, no looking back.Sensations of the Ordinary

Connected is the Title of an amazing self-portrait, created by Kasey McMahon. Steel, CAT5 and other data cables form a pose resembling the woman that was the base for my youngest1's table. See "bewildering boy treasure to be made whole" post.

Speaking of bewildering boys, Florida is putting herself back on to the hot topics list..politically!
The Jebster is sneaking back. It really is a full moon! Where were you last night?

The bread and He have risen

2009-04-12T09:54:00.006-05:00

Want to hear a beautiful version of psalm 118?
This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Alleluia.
we sang this today
Takes as you can see a couple minutes, but it accompanied with good easter images.

I was gifted a leg of lamb.
Do you like mint jelly on your lamb? I do. Tho when we had rack of lamb at a restaurant in Deerfield they used a wonderful mint reduction.
1/2 cup caberbet sauvignon
2 sliced shallots
2 cups stock
1 Tbsp chopped mint
2 Tbsp soft butter
salt and pepper
In a small pan, combine wine and shallots over high heat. Reduce by half. Pour in stock and continue reducing to 2/3 cup. Remove from heat and add the fresh mint. Let stand for 1/2 hour then strain, Bring back to a boil and whisk in the butter. Season with the salt and pepper to your taste. I'm already drooling.

Have you ever marinated a leg of lamb? What about cooking her outside? Do I grill or spit bake her in the pit? Wonder if it was a her or a him .... hmmmm
What about Caribbean Trindad Mustard Coating?
2 cups of Sharon's mommas mustard (other words hot hot mustard like a Dusseldorf)
3 Tbsp sweet sherry wine
1/4 cup Myers Rum
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 tsp garlic crushed
I'll dip this and then dust with 2 cups breads crumbs mixed with 3 Tbsp rosemary.
mmmmm rosemary
thinking like me of homer?
did you see the simpson's are getting put on stamps?

Here are two bottles of wine for the holy vision. Holy Trinity and Daily Red.
Holy Trinity, I found at a wine tasting. It made my criteria of under 12dollars and red.
From Australia the Trinity is a union and a coming together as one, blend of three grapes: Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvedre. The Barossa region of Australia is where the Burge family, along with their faith in Holy Trinity Church of Lyndoch came together as one to produce this Barossa red wine. I bought a case. Their are only 6 bottles in this case.
Daily Red is an organic 2007 Nevada County california red wine. aaaahhh no sulfites detectable is on the label. Detectable? Otherwords Not free. Why add sulfites is the next question. Is it for microbacterial or anti oxidation?
Detectable and todays communion? What in your world is detectable? Feeling the love. I'm sending it! Voodoo blogging here on the island.

wild blessingsThis is a NPR audio of Wendell Berry's poem that has been made into a play by actors theater in Louisville; from the mad farmer.

To be sane in a mad time,
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart. The world
is a holy vision had we clarity
to see it; a clarity that men
depend on men to make.

sane in a mad time describes Ode to my itch from this poison ivy again and again. Is it true blueberry leaves work to relieve itch? Anybody? Donnadoyawanna get out the science book, what are in those leaves?

Good Friday

2009-04-10T17:52:00.006-05:00

No charge for sunsets.To hold their moments splendor requires only a sensitive mind.

At sunset, a sea island snake catches its prey and curls in pinestraw.
The beachprop plane makes a final swoop back down A1A with his BeachwaveTshirts 3 for $10 banner flowing before calling it a day.
Snowbirds come alive after their early bird all you can eat specials.
Everything that moves prepares for the coming evening.
Still, the evening's most amazing movement is the sunset itself.

We are all going somewhere when the sun sets.
City workers get out of town by sundown.
Tired farmers point their tractors home.
Spring breakers head to the diners and dives.

How important would our destinations be if the sun refused to set?

to see the sky the world over
Join the gang, play SkyWatch Friday and join in the worldwide fun.

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:::::I want to live where soul meets body:::::I do believe it is true there are more roads left in these shoes and if the silence takes you I hope it takes me too

evidence of that not seen?

2009-04-09T06:58:00.001-05:00

O doodle all the day
My big schedule today is to come up with something for the kitten shower I'll be attending. How does that sound?
What would you bring?
Should I try to get rid of the hello kitty stuff?
Dig up a pot for some catnip?
Maybe make a frame for a kitten pic from the shower?

Monday, monday, its here to stay ::::ba-da ba-da-da-da:::::

2009-04-06T09:37:00.004-05:00

How about putting your dinner guests in a trance
you will enjoy the pickle
have you ever had fried pickles?

reappropriated organza tube
or napkin rings
any who took the soft gold organza fabric somebody sent me in their potpourri present and cut a piece of elastic to fit snughly around about 5inches. I folded the organza in half lengthways with right side together. I stitched the long sides and turned right side out, threading the elastic through and slip stitched their elastic ends together. I filled the organza tube with my lavender, then slip stitched the open ends, to form a ring of lavender filled organza.

yea
that is the ticket to out fragrant the frickle odor waves

I don't think any self-respecting Southerner should actually use the word "frickle."
:)

Have you ever made hot pickles by putting a ¼ cup crushed red pepper to your pickling spice? They do real well fried.

Fried pickles
1 16-ounce jar dill wedges or chips
½ cup yellow cornmeal
½ cup sifted flour
¼ cup olive oil
5 cloves garlic, crush em
1 tablespoon parsley
1 teaspoon cayenne
2 tablespoons of beer/ale
¼ cup yellow mustard
2-3 cups fry oil

Directions:
1. Drain pickles and set aside
2. Mix the cornmeal and flour together; set aside. In a small bowl, mix olive oil, garlic, parsley, cayenne, beer and mustard together.
3. Dip pickles into wet mixture and then coat with cornmeal mixture
4. Place pickles on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
5. Heat oil in skillet to 365 degrees.
6. Test-fry one pickle to see if it browns quickly. If so, turn off the pan and wait a few minutes.
7. Gently place pickles one at a time into the hot oil . Do not try to fry too many at a time. Remove with a slotted spoon. Drain on paper towels.

shouting stones

2009-04-05T09:14:00.003-05:00

The shrub palm of my barrier island is called the saw palmetto. Sharp saw spikes arm her stem of the fronds. I have had their spines slice my leather gloves!

Saw palmettos grow as dense scrub growth, especially in swales between sand dunes, in the open air of Florida maritime scrub pine weeds, and beneath our live oak hammocks.

Fronds make a fan shape. The fans can span 2 foot in diameter, tho unlike those from a Palmetto, cabbage or sabal palm the saw palm leaves radiate out from the base of the leafstalk.
The root is the reason saw palmettos are shrubby. It spreads laterally under ground, sending fresh green fronds upward every few inches.

I've had his hairy rhizome root ripple our pool's cement pad! So now we have overlad the concrete with pavers. The palms are so hardy they are even fire resistant. They rebound quickly to recolonize, when everything else has been burned out. They are the roaches of the swamp. You can't kill them.

The blossom here is what attracts my bees.

Take a deep breath...
Can you drink in that nectar?
The girls can and have.
A hive out in the woods these blooms help the bees get a honey that is more herbal and smoky tasting then the hives in the citrus grove.

I like to mix it in with fresh squeezed lemon juice...makes the best lemonade

From these blooms come fruits that are dark blue. The fruits are food for Chipper our squirrel, my coons, robins making their way north, and our mockingbirds.

I tried drying some of the fruits to aid Bman's digestion, they make him kinda sleepy.
The old timers here use the inner root bark as a poultice for snakes <~~~never reach under a dead frond without looking... )and skeeter bites....
speaking of an itch

ooo did I tell ya I got poison ivy on the tops of my feet again?

Woke up to this feeling like the sheet was too much for my foot...

itchy scratcy feelings I knew the IVY was back without even looking.... sooo as not to infect any more of my shoes, I'm wearing my flips to church for Palm Sunday once again.

28After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29When he had come near Bethpage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, 30saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it.’” 32So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them. 33As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34They said, “The Lord needs it.” 35Then they brought it to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 36As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. 37As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, 38saying, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!” 39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.” 40He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.” , Luke 19: 28-40

We entered the nave, this morning singing all-glory-laud-and-honor ," and find a man assembling a cross in the center aisle. He hammers nails into the cross through out the service....

bang bang bang

The hammer pounding pierces my itchy feet, liturgical calm, and stirs my soul.

I still sense The Jeez's passion. I connect with the Word.
I allow The Jeez to speak to my heart. I'm thinking I've come a long way this Lent.

The reading is long and we always stand for the Gospel. I like that we stand. Standing keeps my attention. I don't drift off like when I am seated. My whole focus is brought up through my toes to my soul into the contemplation in the events which unfold before me.Is this the stones calling out the itch to my feet? Not a scratching the surface, digging deeper than the top layer for something to believe in, some word that obviously moves me, stirs my soul to insight over my personal experiences.
An itch to be pierced, a stone to be stirred, and drawn into The Jeez's sacrifice.
It is difficult learning to accept The Jeez's suffering as a pathway.

I asked my Sunday school class of 1st graders "if someone came and said they had to take your father's colt, what would you do?"
Two answered simultaneously "I'd get my father's gun and shoot them!"

Made me think of BobDyaln's 115th Dream song

The man says, "Get out of here
I'll tear you limb from limb"
I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"

so I simply wade in.

How many of us want to be Pilates?
How many of us are interested in doing good work with and for the poor or prisoners or lesser of us?

Do you find, like me, too many others who “lord” it over those underneath them?
How many do we see who seem to see human structures in hierarchical terms in which power is used to control and manipulate to varying degrees?

Do I take the path of least resistance, the easy Palm-strewn one?

Do I follow the still small voice, even when it isn't lucrative, or popular, or well-lit, or comfortable?

Am I exhorted to use power not just to my own advantage and to my family's?

Aren't I exhorted to empower others?

Imagine if all us who call ourselves Jesus followers took this seriously?

Is this the human cost of fear?

The neighboring town is looking to inject reclaimed sewage water into the Florida aquifer. They call it a well storage but really they just don't want to spend the money to do this properly. It isn't a well I would want to have to drink from. They don't believe that the sewage polluatants in this water will end up effecting the Indian River lagoon or the whole east coast of Florida's water supply. Is the palm sunday chicken twirling and rabbit foot rubbing and hammer banging going to work?
This is a moneychanger table that needs to be overturned.

Stay standing and at attention.
What happens this week changes the world, and the most surprising reversal of all is on its way.

honey we are home

2009-04-04T10:21:00.005-05:00

and by home I mean the BIG house

'chelle has put organics and beekeepers out there for all to see.

Yes we CAN!

you too can do bees!
check out how good these photos makes ordinary folks feel

On Tuesday, March 24, the first known hive of bees at the White House arrived at their location on the South Lawn. You don't have to count on my crummy photo to see them: just stop by the fence on the Ellipse (south) side: two deeps and a medium of Maryland mixed breed bees, with known Russian and Caucasian genetics.

The White House beekeeper is Charlie Brandts, beekeeper for three years now.

and further sweets for thought

Bees' brains morph to avoid mid-life crisis
Middle age for little buzzers comes quickly, at two to three weeks' old

By Robert Roy Britt

updated 3:57 p.m. ET, Fri., April. 3, 2009

Female worker bees begin adult life working in the hive, doing such things as taking care of the baby bees. By around 2-3 weeks of age, however — roughly equivalent to middle age in human years — they make a major career change, switching to foraging for nectar and pollen. The brains of nurse bees have higher levels of proteins involved in caste determination in the complex society of these insects. The brains of experienced foragers, on the other hand, have more proteins linked to other vital activities, such as energy production. Their proteomes (the set of proteins expressed by their genes) are quite different, the scientists conclude.

"Our study demonstrated clear brain proteome differences between honey bee nurse and forager subcastes with distinct social roles," the researchers write in the Journal of Proteome Research, a publication of the American Chemical Society

why the white house garden matters by fritz haeg

edible estates
hey bustillo how about your neighbors!

friday

2009-04-03T09:16:00.001-05:00

blinded by the light
do you remember that song?
little known trivia Manfred Mann's version of this one was Bruce Springsteen's only top charting #1 song written by the Boss.

the lyrics had a bunch of tongue twisters to learn

Some all hot, half-shot, heading for a hot spot, snapping fingers clapping his hands
try this one faster

speaking of faster: I'm flying home tonight.

to see the sky the world over
Join the gang, play SkyWatch Friday and join in the worldwide fun.

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thursday

2009-04-02T05:26:00.001-05:00

mom in her shades
reliving my past on this trip listening to lots of stories...
remember when
mom 40 years ago
with my daddy in the cherry stenciled christmas party kitchen

mom in gatorland
with the killer b's

We shared good and bad as we washed ashore into Seabrook. I've been driving in and out of white-out rains. Mom has decided she won't leave again on the last day of the month.I try to stop about every hour to let her stretch her legs and keep her knee flexible, but a couple of the rest stops along the east coast interstate corrider of I-95 have been wall to wall snowbirds. They were parking in the grass along the entrance ramp!
We are now off the interstates traveling across SC on the back roads. Any of you remember the Society Hill story from years past?
Neice and nephs are running in the Charleston Cooper River 10K bridge run on Sat so big house party is on there schedule so their beds will be filled with out of town runners. We had lunch with a choclatier! White choc with parmesan, lavender with milk chocolate, and cardamon and bay leaf with dark chocolate were my choices for my courses.Melt in your mouth goodness.

wednesday

2009-04-01T05:21:00.002-05:00

when you are getting ready for a trip ever had this kind of feeling

figured if I was already driving in my head I might as well get the day started.
mom get up time for breakfast!

leaving my island, again, for the northern island of seabrooke. packed up the mom we will be off the coast of carolina tonight, seeing the neices and nephs tomorrow.

tuesday

2009-03-31T09:20:00.002-05:00

the sunsets as we leave the greens and head east to the island. I finally got my mom's house cleaned and closed up for another winter. I had to drive over myself this year so we have to make the 4 hour road trip back to my place to drop off the Z, show off my tile work, and pet the animals before we hit the road with all the rest of the snowbirds trekking north at the end of the month.

monday

2009-03-30T09:14:00.002-05:00

over the river
and through the woods
to mother's house I go

actually tis out of the woods and over the intracoastal which we call the river

off to see my mother on the left side of the state

her snowbird camptime is over and I'll drive her home.
I didn't get a maid to clean her house this year. So that job falls back to me. ;0
Watch these rubber gloves fly.
Watch these legs haul suitcases.
Watch it all out my drivers windows as I have the blackberry and post along the way.
Rest stops have never seen such fun.

I'm packing along the audio book When you are engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. I like driving and listening to stories, even my mothers.

brillant

2009-03-29T18:30:00.001-05:00

What are tropical salad days?
The commitment to freshness results in a ever changing menu when the fruit and vegetables are this fresh.
With wild greens come wild names. Take lamb quarters. What do you call them, besides All good? Muckweed obviously isn't the most appetizing choice nor pigweed but bacon weed and fat hen lend a word with some taste certainty to the plate.

A tale tell sign our growing season is different then yours. Our county fair was this weekend. The farm society put on a fabulous exhibit of jellies, pickles, quilts, horse races, sack races and harvest. The giant size veggies like grapefruit size tomatoes are always my favorite winners to chat up on compost. I'm hunting for my Cinderella size pumpkin! I scored a specimen rule book this year.

How do you polish your tomatoes?

herbal dinner rings

2009-03-28T00:27:00.003-05:00

delightful freshly plucked rosemary rings the napkin, while mint flower heads and a couple of my mosquito beater lemon geranium scents complemented our dinner of lemon pancetta and rosemary stuffed veal

dirt on finger nails adds true island grit
oops

8 1/2 lb breast of veal
1 tablespoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
2 cups Italian bread crumbs
10 ounces pancetta or go rural and use bacon, cooked until lightly brown not crisp, finely diced (reserving 2 tablespoons of the rendered fat)
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon
3 tablespoons garlic
1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary, plus another 2 whole sprigs
1 lemon, zested
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
2 medium carrots, coarsely chopped
1 cup white wine
1 cup chicken stock

First butterfly the breast of veal.
Season on both sides with 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper.
preheat oven to 350F.
Next in a mixing bowl, combine the bread crumbs, pancetta, Parmesan, olive oil, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, garlic, minced rosemary, and lemon zest and stir.
Spread the bread crumb mixture evenly over the pounded portion of the veal leaving the edges clean.
Carefully roll the meat lengthwise and tie every 1 1/2 inches. I use kitchen twine. I save bread crumb mix that falls out of the ends of the roast as I tie.

In a dutch oven over med heat, make the reserved rendered fat very hot, and brown the roast on all sides, turning occasionally, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Remove the veal from the pan and add the onions and carrots and carmelize the onions, stirring about 4 minutes.
Add the white wine, chicken stock, remaining 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, rosemary sprigs, remaining teaspoon of salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper and return the veal to the pan.
This is when I add any of my dropped and reserved bread crumb mixture.
When the liquid comes to a boil, I cover the dutch oven and put her in the oven. Cook, turning a couple times, for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, until the veal is very tender.

Remove from the oven and transfer the roast to a platter.
Cover loosely with aluminum foil and let stand for 15 to 30 minutes before removing the kitchen twine and slicing.

Did you read about the find a farmer website? Saw it while reading the NYtimes. Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food by BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL
Published: March 27, 2009
western states are leading us to the promised land.

in other news: will miss dan seals
do you remember his god loves cowboy hearts?

plow your mind

2009-03-27T10:19:00.004-05:00

"You are who you are and where you are because of what you put in your mind... said a philosopher, can't remember who. How about you?
This smoking pine, really is the sunsetting shuttle Discovery's trails going where lots of minds launching dreams take us.
Up up and away!
Discovery returns to the island tomorrow.

to see the sky the world over
Join the gang, play SkyWatch Friday. I haven't quite figured out why they call it skywatch Friday. Hosting begins on Wednesday so if that or Thursday is better join in the worldwide fun.

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the answer my friend is blowing in the wind

2009-03-22T07:07:00.010-05:00

visit

to see the world's best
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Want to play SkyWatch?

Kinda weird lit sky?
The little tiny weeny dot you see in the center of the screen is the Shuttle Discovery. There is a bright pinprick of light right beneath that is the solid rocket booster dropping off. A sunset way off to the west or my right, I mean my other right look left ;) back lit the oak tree pollen all orangey, while the sky relinquishes the launch of many dreams.

The shuttle is carrying a huge solar panel for the space station's solar wings. All in the name sustainability. Even space is going green, The shuttle has in tow too a local science teacher turned astronaut (Joseph Acaba ), Koichi Wakata, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA astronaut), who is to become his nation's first long-duration spaceflyer when he joins the station's Expedition 18 crew as a flight engineer for a six-month stay, and a replacement part for a failed processor in the station's urine recycling system. This machine, which was delivered to the ISS in November 2008, was designed to turn the astronaut's pee into drinkable water, though it has been malfunctioning since the start. Mission managers said they hope the spare part being carried up by Discovery will do the trick to fix the system, which is also essential for hosting double-sized crews on the space station.
Speaking of outhouses in space. Hey did you hear about the uproar over Bob Dylan's?

What would you do with this neighbor?

Emminger and his wife have installed five industrial-size fans in their front yard in an attempt to blow the odor back at Dylan. all in the key of E But they say the fans are no match for the ocean breeze that sweeps across the singer’s land.

The first time I read this paragraph the word fans inside a Dylanesque capade ( i made up another word) I saw a mosh pit visual of jumping fans before a stage. Did you? Stinking hippies, get it?
I've had a couple neighbor uprisings.
Mr.Shorty came over spouting off that the brace, we were pounding between four pine trees, was ruining his view while doing his dishes. Mentioning anything with flooring and roof could be seen, he said, needing builder permits. So we only built a swing. What do you say?

Further back: I'll never forget, Bess coming over to tell me Bull our german shep/huskie mix had something in her garden.
I go with her: we walk up to Bull still trying to cover up with the soil from around her gladioulus, a huge dead groundhog.
To more recently: Drove up to our mailbox when coming home, to find our neighbor has hired a guy to cut down our oak hammock. Telling him he has to stop, I tell him he is on my property. Knocking on the door to tell her she doesn't have my permission to hire folks to cut down our trees and asking for a replacement that I have yet to receive.

Something like this Utahian? U tah ians or Utes? sure not figured out the plural?

abstract cactus vent art

"Her name was Peromyscus leucopus, but she did not know it. I think it had been a long time since the mice around Port William spoke English, let alone Latin. Her language was the dialect of mouse, a tongue for which we humans have never developed a vocabulary or grammar. Because I don't know her name in Mouse, I will call her Whitefoot."

I don't know if those with mice in their house can read this one quite the same as those of us who only see them in the grove.
The best one still has to be Kevin blasting out the back of the kitchen wall when he took the gun to under the sink to catch that night time raider.

It was Kurt Vonnegut Jr. who said what the world needs now is not love, sweet love. What it needs is more common decency.Will she survive, her temporary home a knothole in a floating log carried along by the flood waters?

Porgy and Bess Pie
Mix together:
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons cornmeal
2 tablespoons flour

Cream these dry ingredients with
1/2 butter

Add
5 egg yolks, beaten
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 426 my finger slipped do you have a
digital oven? Do 425 for 15 minutes. Readuce heat to 375 degrees and continue
baking until filling will not shake or silver knife comes out clean.
Watch
closely.
beat egg whites adding 6 tablespoons sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cream
of tartar.
Spread on cooked pie and brown at 300 degrees. Are you getting
cooler? I like to tell folks complaining about our heat as I'm too cool to be
hot. Only to have them respond they would rather be hotties.

girls night at the casbah

2009-03-18T06:13:00.002-05:00

Mona Lott and Ann Teak clean their plates, so SueFlay egged them on to read her palm

palm reading said we have to wait a long time to eat cake

SueFlay gets Joy Rider to past the time with checkers

Finally Kay Niver puts the knife to our dessert. There is a little carrot cake on top of the big red velvet cake, now we know why BigDelia is smiling.

Sixth sense talk by Patti Maes
I really like the project part that will allow me to place a tag cloud on others as I approach them.

I can think of a lot of names/title I want to place on certain people when I see them.

finally we are on our own again

2009-03-17T12:01:00.003-05:00

Suddenly, a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. (Story by Benjamin Rosenbaum, animation by Nick Fox-Gieg. theantking.com/
fox-gieg.com )k

white room is closed

2009-03-15T09:07:00.001-05:00

nasa tv watch discovery launch

sketchy

2009-03-14T08:13:00.012-05:00

waiting to hear something from the boy

and ran into this meme on auntjennysworld
to pass my time

50 things

1) What is your salad dressing of choice?
1 cup olive oil
6 Tbs white vinegar
1/4 cup OJ
1 Tbs minced onion
1 clove garlic
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp crushed oregano
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
combine in glass jar
cover tightly and shake shake shake
chill overnight/several hours will do
remove garlic
shake and serve
this will serve a couple dozen salads

2) What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
my stomach calls this one a tieDa kine Diegos
and grills

3) What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it?

Triple Cheese Enchiladas
2 cups mexican red sauce
1 1/2 cups spinach
2 cups ricotta cheese
1/4 cup parmesan
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. slat
veg oil
14 tortillas
1 cup shredded cheddar

combine the ricotta, parmesan, spinach, eggs and salt
stir until bledded
spread 1 cup sauce in 12x8x3 baking dish
preheat oven to 350
heat oil in medium skillet
dip tortillas one at a time into oil for about 5 seconds on each side
drain on towel
spread 1/4 cup of spinanch mixture in a ribbon across one edge and roll up jelly roll style.
place seam side down in dish sprinkle with cheddar and bake 35 minutes.

4 cups of red sauce:
chop don't seed 10oz of green chili peppers
saute 3 med chopped onions and 2 minced garlic cloves in 2 Tbs olive oil in a large saucepan until sofr. stir in 2 canned tomatoes 24-28oz and 3/4cup of tomato paste breaking up tomatoes with spoon. stir in chili peppers with seeds, 1/2 tsp coriander and 2 tsp salt.

4) What are your pizza toppings of choice?

PizzaDough

2 packages=2 Tablespoons active dry yeast
pinch of sugar
1 1/4cup warm water
3 1/2cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 c. olive oil

1 lb mozzarella grated/shredded
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
my choice topping are sundried tomatoes add yours
Preheat oven to 450-500 degrees.

Sprinkle the 2 tablespoons of yeast and a pinch of sugar into a 1/4 cup of warm water (110-115 degrees). Let this cup stand for 5 to 8 minutes in a warm place, as sugar and yeast dissolve. The yeast will bubble up and you want the mixture to froth almost double in volume. If the yeast does not bubble, start over with fresh yeast.

While the yeast bubbles, in a large mixing bowl, measure the flour and salt.

Make a well in the center of the flour and pour inot it the yeast mixture and adding 1 cup of warm water and 1/4 cup of olive oil.

Mix the dough.

When you can gather the dough in a rough ball, place onto a floured board and knead for 5 minutes, or until smooth, shiny and elastic.

Dust the dough lightly with flour, place it in the mixing bowl that has been cleaned out and cover.

Set in a warm draft free spot for about 20-30 minutes. This is when I grate cheese or chop toppings.

Punch down dough and you have the choice to make one big thick pizza

When I make a large pizza I drizzle olive oil ~1 to 2tablespoons on a pizza pan and then pulling and stretching I flatten out the pizza dough to the shape of the pan with my fingers...

Flute edges, spoon on a cup of sauce or more, and add my cheese then the toppings.

another option: you can choose to put the dough on a floured board sprinkle the ball with flour and use a rolling pin. I usually only do this when I make little pizzas. I divide the large ball into quarters and using the floured rolling pin I roll until the dough is 7" in diameter. Next rolling in a circle with the floured rolling pin, the diameter expands to 10" and is about 1/8" thick. To make 4 10" pizzas.

Dust a large baking sheet with cornmeal and place the little pizzas on it.
Flute edges.

If you prefer an extra crispy crust, put the dough in the oven for ~12 minutes before you spoon on the sauce.

After edges are fluted, spoon on a 1/2 cup of sauce, add cheese then the toppings.

*Dough recipe also makes excellent bread sticks.
*Shape dough and bake about 10 minutes, serving with melted garlic butter or more sauce.

Pizza sauce
yields 3 cups
2 clove garlic minced
1 onion minced
1 Tablespoon olive oil
2 14 1/2 oz cans of tomatoes, diced
1 6oz can of tomato paste
1 Tablespoon oregano leaves
1 Tablespoon basil leaves
1 teaspoon thyme leaves
1 teaspoon salt

Heating oil in a heavy 10" skillet over low heat, I add garlic and onion. Stirring frequently I cook until onion is tender. Add remaining ingredients, stirring well. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 1 hour, stirring and don't go outside the box :)

5) What do you like to put on your toast?
honey

6) How many televisions are in your house?
after the party only 2

7) What color cell phone do you have?
blackberry

8)Are you right-handed or left-handed?
right

9) Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
baby teeth, 1 front tooth to a shoe polishing battle of the bulge battle, 3 wisdom teeth, 1 cracked molar, holes in my ears, ligaments in my knees, hair, and two babies.

10) What is the last heavy item you lifted?
a keg of beer off the dolly into the kegerator

11) Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
the stories i could type

ok just a few
first time i flew off my bike racing through the grass in a heat of races around the house circa 1957
next flew off the balance beam in 7th grade gym class
next well i flew after going back to throw a football

12) If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
I'm ready make my day!

13) If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
Red Sonja ;0

14) Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
If it is beestingers sure but I don't think I could do a

15) How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
how many colors are there in the rainbow? i have no idea
too many obviously
the ones I paint in
the ones I wear with dresses
the ones for the beach
the ones for the grocery
the ones for driving
the ones that go with my gator clothes
the ones that sparkle
the ones that have arches

16) What’s your goal for the year?

17) Last person you talked to?
myself ;0

18) Last person you hugged?
bman

19) Favorite Season?
gardening

20) Favorite Holiday?
Easter

21) Favorite day of the week?
mother's day

22) Favorite Month?
July

23) First place you went this morning?
crabbing

24) What’s the last movie you saw?
theater:Watchman
tv: W
dvd:Burn before Reading

25) Do you smile often?
laugh more

26) Do you always answer your phone? if i hear it

27) It’s four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it?
somebody in a london fog, right sharon

28) If you could change your eye color what would it be?
yellow like the cats

29) What flavor drink do you get at Sonic?
no sonics on the island

30) Have you ever had a pet fish?
yes and pet fish rocks....we have a tank load

31) Favorite Christmas song?

Light,
Warm and heavy as pure gold
And the angels sing softly
To the new-born baby.

Lux,
Calida gravisque pura velut aurum
Et canunt angeli molliter
Modo natum.

32) What’s on your wish list for your birthday?
my mother coming along on our trip to NH, Cape Cod, and Boston

33) Can you do push ups?
yes a dozen or more

34) Can you do a chin up?
no but i can do double chins

35) Does the future make you more nervous or excited?
excited nor nervous does describe me very well
but i like their music
nervousbutexcited
http://www.nervousbutexcited.com/music.htm
now re: the future — our journeys are already indelibly intertwined

36) Do you have any saved texts?
yes my boys lovenotes

37) Ever been in a clique?
yes Barbie Wilson and I started the Barracuda club, then we joined the girls scouts and hey isn't blogger a clique? you have to have a username and remember the password.

38) Do you have an accent?
haha
didn't hear it there did you

39) What is the last song to make you cry?

40) Plans tonight?

girl gathering with the emmapeelgang click below for talk eat talk knit talk drink talk sing talk eat talk paint nails talk drink talk
rinse and repeat
while doing very little sleeping

41) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
just the sandy bottoms here

42) Name 3 things you bought today.
stamps, beer, and gas

43) Have you ever been given roses?
my first came the night of my senior prom

44) Current hate right now?
i'm not a hater

45) Met someone who changed your life?
yes and married him and my life continues to change

46) How did you bring in the New Year?

remember emma peel punching

47) What song represents you?
HONKY TONK

48) Name three people who might complete this?
all y'all

49) What were you doing 12 AM last night?
baking baking cookies, playing Catan, and gabbing

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
the owl is after the cats

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Tis The Season

2009-03-14T08:11:00.002-05:00

Today is red hot!

I planted red salvia for Christmas color to spike up my petunias years ago. Red hot sally lives on and on and on and on!
Never even seen a caterpillar, slug or thrip on her. What about you? Any pests in your zone?
The only thing I don't like about her longevity is I seem to be stuck in a color rut for the holidays with her volunteer reseeding.
Do you have a color trend in your garden?
I know some love only white which bores many who love the riot of orange purple and reds. Are you a monochromatic planter? Do you change your colors annually? seasonally? ok and I'm not taking: yes we do winter white! Color is difficult, for me, to maintain in the garden all year round solely with the planting too. I use licks of paint on benches, fence and some pots.

Paint is a way to instantly freshen up our garden as a whole and set the planting off really well too. I'm thinking about introducing a new color.

Do I go
Red
arousing, exciting, stimulating.
Do you think of red as masculine? Red is a warm color actually some call her hot. Red makes the plants appear closer so it can be used in the far off beds.

Do I choose
Pink
soft, acquiescent, sensuous. Pinks seem more feminine then red.

Orange
exciting, stimulating, intense.
Do you see orange as lively? Does it make you feel whimsical compared to red?

What about peachy soft, sunny, warm. Seems feminine too.

Thetrend color is
Yellow
feeling luminous, sunny, cheerful.
Softer yellow, to me, are expansive and open bringing spacious sense alive. It tends to lose it color and needs a cool color to play off.
Pure yellow, to me, are acidic and irritating in large amounts. Tho I like how they add energy and whimsy.

What color will set off our plants?

hmmmm
The cool colors such as blues, purples, lavenders and whites always work well together and blend well with planting of similar hues, whereas the hotter colors of the reds, oranges and yellows tend to warm things up a little and intensify the greens of nearby plants.

I'll limit the color to one or two which compliment each other to keep the garden looking harmonious.
I'm thinking, I'll use light colors to help bounce the light around in the shady parts.

hmmmm
maybe purple and orange to exemplify the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties I like to draw on for feelings of reassurance.

so much to consider while
I'm doggie sitting my younger boys pupdog while he is in our old stomping grounds of kentucky. He is on his first med school interview. Cross your fingers blink your eyes and twirl in a circle that destiny calls his name to complete my dream of the family must go to UK circle.

Here is a shot of our old homestead hill.

the Appalachians are smokin!
in the land of the hollers
we all drop those G's

Always bring a mirror of non-existence as a gift

2009-03-13T07:08:00.008-05:00

I heard it said " all paths are earthen"

Observe how water is with

the ground, always moving toward the ocean, though the ground
tries to hold water's foot

and not let it go.

reflect on the gold that doesn't grow on trees.

air is mixed with dust, veiling the sky,
my eye is prevented from seeing the sun;
but when the dust is gone, the air once again becomes pure.

We know the taste

of pure water.
Words can sound like a poem but not have
any juice, no flavor to

relish.
How do you make relish? That's the question police said thieves

to see the sky the world over
Join the gang, play SkyWatch Friday

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measured steps

2009-03-09T08:34:00.004-05:00

great sparkling beginning to a week.

How is your Monday going? I'm buzzing and catting around the hive today.

do you call these firewheels?
indian blankets?
gallardia's?
nothing better for the drought lands.

I cam back insided to put the finishing touches on the latest construction project. My place is still a construction site.
Our guests will have to dodge all the tiles in the hall. no wallbangers needed.
Can you believe there is still this much more to lay? I can't either!
That is ten more piles!

The room with this view is next on THE list.

I'll miss the kitty door of the jalousie window, just as much as them. They all know seem to know when I'm in here, and it is a bird watching perch.

we were going to go down the hall to the master, now have decided, after this last room (which felt huge it is only 16x12) my knees need a break. bman suggested, i should do a small room. that way i can feel better about how fast I'm taking rooms off the list.

This window to their world will soon be lost... I'm putting in screens and single hung windows.

Losing our jalousie windows, hopefully, will make us less drafty, less humid/more energy efficient.

time to get chasing after the dust bunnies.

we are biodegradable

2009-03-08T10:48:00.005-05:00

I finished reading last night The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner. A buddy sent me this link to two of his podcasts.
http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=19979&allEpisodes=

Nice listen.
They are the 26 and 27 listing down the page, look for
Lost Language of Plants and the Perceptive Heart

When we rendered the heart as nothing more than a pump

we essentially colonized the soul or spirit of ourselves as rather lifeless.

How much of life am I missing?
breathe in

what plants are you drawn toward?
mango
the mango tree is telling me about myself:
the familiar warmth of the one beside you, wearing the same old worn pjs, can awaken a heart of deep tenderness.

what spontaneous feeling does your plant draw out in you image wise?

the good old days when milk was delivered to our back door and the time the paper cap rose up out of the bottle on a column of cream because it was so cold.

does that image tell you about your self?
i won't be able to exit life the way we exited the movie theater, holding hands and wondering where we parked the car.

how do we feel better?
by walking and not letting my mind perspire.

what happens when we come to our senses?
silence can be eloquent

The mango and I are more than the sum of our parts.
we both can block out the prattle and stand tall in our solitude sanctuaries.
diminishing strength and health dictated the change in our lives...and both of us are surviving our transplants
settling our roots deep into the new soil
we not only survive but bloom again.

Wendell Berry's poem
To Tanya at Christmas

together here two trees

whose lives in annual sheddings

made their way into this ground
whose bodies turn to earth
and song.

The song will tell
how old love sweetens the fields

large reclining figure

2009-03-07T15:29:00.000-05:00

taking a break to catch my wind

i think i could chisel a rock relief
tho i am amazed how long this is taking
gives me a new appreciation for henry moore's large reclining figure.

i'm got one more tile to chip off
can't let it go fast or I end up chipping another one too!
letting loose with my new hammer on the floor, the sedge rebounds back at me chipping the corner of a tile I hadn't intended on removing. But it turns out the slab floor's crack ran right under this spot so this one is a destiny thing. well back to breaking rock
before
the big blue and gator game at 4. go UK!

our spring breakers arrive on Tuesday evening...they are at the last weekend of bike week in Daytona... last chance at cream corn wrestling girls!

the ins and outs

2009-03-07T10:05:00.002-05:00

snagged by the oops

the room, i am tiling, used to be carpet.

the hall way ended here, with a small tile meeting the carpet, under the door threshold.

so to make this not an eyesore, with the add on project look, I chipped up the old little tile in the hall.
you can see from the boot photo that I will have approximately a 10" tile piece to fill the gap of the little hallway tile and the last bedroom and door threshold tile.

this chipping eliminated, too, the green paint that ran down the hall in the grout and on a few tiles... green monster trails came from my youngest boy who had spilled his green orc army paint all over his desk, the white carpet and onto his black sweats and socks and in his hurry to clean up, tracked it everywhere years ago.

the empty nest redo is removing all my kids love marks :(

there is a crack in the foundation, under the tile too, so I have ended up popping up more than just the 3 doorway tiles...but I broke the sledge hammer last night

talk about whacked!

so with the delay
of no store open yet

i am outside on the laptop
by the pool this morning

check out my mosquito shocker is in bloom.

I've decided on pelargoniums in containers, this year, for our defense when sitting by the pool.
we can only hope they along with the rosemary edgings and lemonbalms will help defend us.

do you have a mosquito remedy?

emmapeelpunchers

2009-01-01T12:01:00.001-05:00

bewildering boy treasure to be made whole

2006-07-25T15:13:00.001-05:00

Exhibit A I am truly cracked how to take holes and make whole?

now stop laughing Jenny see how blessed ya be with girls ... he found this on the way home

wants her to be opposite with black with white i was wondering if mocha wouldnt hide the repair spot better? but what color with a mocha?
now imagine her without the laundry basket LOL all hands on deck to help me LOL
he has the glass top for the table which is prolly worth more then his treasure but he is 19 LOL

would you just try to mend with plaster or what about fiberglass like a boat or car repair? what would you do with hole?