The Thirteen Thursday Water Cooler
1. “Herding the cows” and “hurting the cows” sounds the same but means something completely different.
2. Another miscommunication came when I recently said to someone, “I’m overeating” and they heard, “I’m over eating,” as in “I’m so done with that.”
3. Floydfest, our town’s blow-out music festival, becomes a lifestyle every July for four days. The day after this year’s festival, I was tired but was heard saying, “I miss Floydfest. I miss the food. I miss the music. I miss the people, the sights, the nightlife and the big sky.
4. THIS is likely my favorite video from Floydfest out of the 20 or so ones I took. I’ve watched it over and over because it always makes me smile “all over again.”
5. My husband is so lucky. He gets to do THIS for a living.
6. Heard by a musician from a stage at Floydfest before singing a cover song: “Virginia is for Covers.”
7. Did you know that when hens lay eggs they brag about it by crowing loudly like a rooster?
8. Broody and moody not only rhyme, their meanings are very similar.
9. His Greatest influence was Bob Dylan. He sued John McCain for using his song in a tv ad and he lives completely off the grid. I’m talking about Jackson Browne who I was thrilled to see perform at Floydfest. The last time I saw him perform was with my brother Danny in Texas more than 30 years ago.
10. “Other Browne-inspired green innovations include a several-years-old “no plastic backstage” rule. It’s estimated that since 2008, over the course of approximately 150 band shows and 50 solo dates, Browne’s tours have saved more than 50,738 plastic bottles from being used backstage.” Huffington Post
11. Plastic is dangerous. It killed THIS whale.
12. I’m no fan of bottled water, but the only reason people turned to drinking it is because drinking chlorinated tap water taste bad and is linked with cancer. “The link between chlorine and bladder and rectal cancers has long been known, but only recently have researchers found a link between common chlorine disinfectant and breast cancer, which affects one out of every eight American women. A recent study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found that women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorine by-products) in their breast tissue than cancer-free women.” ~ Scientific American magazine
13. Browne on getting older: “That’s what happens when all goes well.”
~ This is my 352nd Thirteen Thursday
August 2nd, 2012 9:47 am
Loved #13 🙂 And congrats on this being your 352nd Thirteen Thursday!!! WOWSA!
August 2nd, 2012 9:51 am
What can I say?? Another great TT!!
August 2nd, 2012 10:20 am
I love # 13!
August 2nd, 2012 11:06 am
#12–Actually bottled water is NOT safer than any tap water. Bottled water is NOT regulated and does not have to meet the same standards as tap….and it’s in plastic bottles that leach lots of BPA…and Sheryl Crow believes that she got breast cancer from the bpa from plastic bottled water.
At the festival I couldn’t take my glass water bottles so I purchased a berkey filtered water bottle so when I was working and only bottled water was available I could filter out the bpa……
I know I’m up on a soapbox but I intensely dislike the privatization of our water; I believe clean water is everyone’s birth right and it should not be privatized for huge profits.
August 2nd, 2012 11:10 am
Nothing is better than hearing the soft clucking sounds of hens as they meander around. Nothig is better than an omlet made from their eggs.
August 2nd, 2012 11:49 am
I am aware of the downfalls of plastic bottled water drinking, although I drink it when I travel because I think chlorinated tap water is worse (and certainly taste worse to me). I try to go with a company that might be more reliable than the single-use plastic bottled cheap water you can get.
I too am upset by the selling a free natural resource but I am firstly upset that we have spoiled this resource in the first place to the point where we add cancer causing chemicals to it to cover up that fact. I have said that it reminds me of the abhorrent selling of air in the sci-fi movie Total Recall. I posted what I did because I know many people who drink chlorinated tap water and think it is perfectly safe.
We are lucky to have good water in Floyd and it is one of the reason I live here. Floydfest was abundant in access to good free water to fill in our containers.
If you have to use bottled water, make sure not to leave them in the sun as the cancer linked BPA (an endocrine disruptor that can mimic estrogen and may lead to negative health effects) leaches worse that way.
August 2nd, 2012 12:36 pm
I know what you mean….I keep trying to get my city friends to set up a Berkey water filter in their homes….and it is great that Floydfest provides clean water so folks can refill instead of have to buy expensive over priced unhealthy bottled water. 🙂
August 2nd, 2012 1:16 pm
AND you don’t sound a day older!
August 2nd, 2012 1:29 pm
That’s a lot of TTs. I think you’re the TT grandma now.
Great post. The water thing is troubling, mostly because the rights of landowners to their water can be stripped away without compensation. It happened just a few years ago where I live. The locality fought it but the state handed the water rights over to thousands of acres of land. It was thievery and a travesty.
August 2nd, 2012 1:53 pm
WOW! 352nd Thursday 13…AMAZING, Colleen—Simply Amazing. COBGRATULATIONS!!!
Those statistic about Cancer and Chlorinated water are pretty frightening. My “tap” water smells very very peculiar—NOT RIGHT, shall we say….So, I have been drinking Bottled water for years and years and years…! I also diligently recycle! We have to be aware of everything, don’t we.
LOVE that spotted guitar in your favorite Video….lol…I don’t remember ever seeing that before….!
It looks like Floydfest 2012 was another Big Winner!!!
August 2nd, 2012 9:01 pm
I MUST get to Floydfest!
August 3rd, 2012 12:11 am
I’m with Janet. Number 13 is awesome. I might just embroider that on something!
Happy TT, you’re a TT rock star, for sure.