13: Goose on the Loose
1. I call THIS the Gravy Train.
2. My husband Joe’s workaholic nature has taken a toll. He’s promised to change his ways and I think the fact that he bought an adjustable lounge chair and a blow-up bed over the Memorial Day weekend is a good start.
3. The bed, which Joe put on the porch for nighttime summer sleeping, apparently has to gas-out before it’s slept on. After trying it out briefly, I felt like I was wearing blow-up plastic perfume for the rest of the day.
4. I approach my blog and my Facebook profile picture like I approach wearing earrings, once I find the ones I like I don’t tend to change them.
5. I think of a life like I think of a poem. The beginning is important. It should say something meaningful and have some resolution at the end.
6. I think it’s fitting that the word “unresolved” also says “unloved.”
7. Now THIS is what I call outreach: In March 2011, Amy Avery, Director of Educational Programming at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts, went to visit her sister in Alaska. With the support of a number of wonderful Floyd Folk, she facilitated a 2 hour polymer clay class.
8. The next Floydfest? Classical music has come to Floyd in a big way. More HERE.
9. One of the fifteen pictures I submitted out of the 125 I took for the local paper at Sunday’s high school graduation is HERE.
10. “Let’s remember to live in the present. And let’s not be so anxious tear through one day just to get to the next because once we lose that day we’ll never get it back.” ~ Our friend Jesse Torrence at his high school graduation. Jesse is currently waiting for a heart transplant.
11. “Cell phone towers and self-storage units, that’s what’s wrong with this country.” ~ Joe on the drive to the ocean last week.
12. Speaking of cell phones, scientists are finally citing a link between brain cancer and long term cell phone use. Read about it HERE.
13. Playing with the baby Liam and Bryce today, I used the word “google,” which in my book is not a search engine but something in between goosey and giggle.
Thirteen Thursday headquarters is HERE.
June 2nd, 2011 7:34 am
I am concerned that many things we use today will one day be found to cause health problems. But how would you know without better testing and regulations? How nice it would be if companies were on the side of the consumer, instead of the dollar bill. Great TT! Hope you enjoyed your time away.
June 2nd, 2011 9:36 am
Hi. I met you yesterday on the Wordless Wednesday 😀 I feel so pleased and as if I’ve bumped into a life raft out on the sea of blog 🙂 I’m feeling a bit lost. I’ve been trying to find people doing the Thursday Thirteen. The “home page” for the site does not link everybody any more?
I want to tell you too, I very much like your list. Several things you’ve got listed will stay with me. I love number 4 especially, and number 5. Number 6 surprised me, I’ll always think of those two words together now. Number 10’s quote, I just love. Number 11 is priceless, and probably quite true, whether I want to admit it or not 🙂 Number 12 I’m pretending to ignore… And 13, I remember when someone was googling someone it implied something else entirely that had nothing to do with an Internet or search engines.
Thank you for taking the time to list your 13 things, and for sharing them. Funny how with all the cell phone towers and Internet and blogs, it’s still sometimes a challenge to find others to connect and share. Thanks again 🙂
June 2nd, 2011 11:59 am
I always knew that those drivers with their phones plastered to the side of their head that weaved all over the road and made driving life miserable for the rest of us would someday get their just rewards. But then I am reminded of our plight back in the “OLD” days when Ralph Nader was coming out with another familiar and useful item that he claimed was “hazardous to your health”, and doing so on a daily basis it seemed. The saying went around then: “If Nader had his way they will declare that our feet are hazardous to our health and ban walking.” And so it never ends.
June 2nd, 2011 12:57 pm
I always love your T13’s Colleen, but today’s is even more special, to me, with that first video…I LOVE those Birds on the Pond…! So sweet and very relaxing to watch….! I could sit there all day watching them drift down and up-stream….Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!
June 2nd, 2011 2:07 pm
Like what you said in number five. Also love your goose pics from yesterday.
June 2nd, 2011 3:54 pm
hah, what a joyful post Colleen. number 11 just about says it all. I’ll never look at the word resolved in the same way again.
June 2nd, 2011 4:50 pm
I have to touch on number four, because I completely agree, the difference is that I change my earrings a couple times a day because I have so many pairs that I just love. *smile*
Five was just beautiful!
Happy TT,
~Xakara
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June 2nd, 2011 5:18 pm
13 glorious Sa ndy
June 2nd, 2011 10:25 pm
Another Great TT!! What can I say? xox
June 3rd, 2011 11:31 am
hope you will share more about the bed as summer progresses. do you have a screened sleeping porch? i had friends in the south who had sleeping porches built off their upstairs bedrooms. i know many people don’t want A/C, but i could not stand a hot eastern summer without it. we don’t need ours but a few weeks here (and most people in seattle do not have A/C for that reason).
enjoyed the whole list. you are such a clever one.
June 3rd, 2011 11:37 am
Our porch is open. Being in the mountains our water flows down and doesn’t stagnate, so mosquitoes aren’t a problem. Also in the mountains it’s cooler than the valley so most don’t have AC, which is a blessing. I love the weather here because it only gets really hot for a few weeks, like the winter is only brutal for the same amount of time.
January 17th, 2012 10:29 am
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