13: As the World Turns
1. I recently rode by a house with a series of red towels hanging on a clothesline and wondered if they would provoke the bulls in the neighboring field.
2. My grandson Bryce is growing up fast. I have to admit I was a little heartbroken when I heard him on Monday say the word “yellow” for the first time instead of his usual Yeh-yo.”
3. At the recent anniversary gig of The Kind at the Pine Tavern, lead singer Mark McLeod did a sound check by singing into the mic, “Tommy, Tommy, can you hear me?” (via The Who). A couple of us in the audience couldn’t help but think he was sending out a word to Tom Ryan, the Floyd County icon who promoted music events at the Pine and sadly passed away unexpectedly in January.
4. I was about to write a blog comment to one of The Kind band members, saying that I wished them another 27 years of playing, when I started to do the math and realized that if they did, I’d be dancing like THIS dancing nana.
5. If you thought that was funny, check my grandson’s playing “House,” as in playing doctor HERE.
6. I’ve really been pooped with all the pope coverage lately, so I googled “pope jokes” and found this: Favorite breakfast in Rome these days: Ex Benedict.
7. Search engine terms as an oracle? Someone just landed on my blog by searching “Joe Loves Colleen.”
8. “You can use a computer, but I always say you should be able to write with a pen, because someday your computer might break, or you might not have access to electricity. It’s sort of like driving: you still have to know how to walk.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
9. Never a dull moment : Last week I lived through a home safety check (for the work I do with people with disabilities), an oral surgery, a head cold, and a cornered possum that was stuck inside the garden fence right next to the chicken coop. I also enjoyed a get-down psychedelic folk/rock concert one night and a sit-down classical piano performance the next.
10. Is We just the mirror image of Me? Is She the mutant plural of He?
11. Is flat the opposite of fat?
12. “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” – Sydney J. Harris
13. Sometimes I like to run my hand across the keyboard like Liberace playing piano.
March 14th, 2013 12:23 am
12 exactly
March 14th, 2013 3:32 am
i was trying to picture that “Old” woman dancing, as a young woman….Maybe you have to be old—which I am—to appreciate how youthful she still really is….!
Another great T13 Colleen….I always love when you push words around—so to speak—to show us many interesting things to contemplate about them…Like WE and ME…..!
You lead a very full and busy life….I’m surprised you are not exhausted more of the time, especially with your CFS….I think you are AMAZING!
March 14th, 2013 5:36 am
No T13 from me this week, but I certainly enjoyed yours. I sent the dancing Nana to My Beloved Sandra by way of adding one more reason for her to get her knee (and me my back) back into working order.
March 14th, 2013 7:44 am
I love that Natalie Goldberg quote! And the dancing nana. Great list O 13 today!
March 14th, 2013 8:15 am
In my case flat is the opposite of fat…darn!
March 14th, 2013 8:47 am
Totally agree with you on the whole Pope thing. The coverage on it has been really over-the-top. Happy Thursday.
March 14th, 2013 9:16 am
Funny Pope joke. I still write in a paper journal each day just because it feels different for my hands and mind.
13 reasons to evacuate a castle
March 14th, 2013 9:44 am
I love your TT picture. It reminds me I had a friend whose father used to make pinwheels. He was an artist and probably had tons of real work to do, but he’d make pinwheels for the kids who asked.
Good times. Good times.
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March 14th, 2013 11:43 am
so true about change!
March 14th, 2013 3:04 pm
Love the natalie Goldberg quote and groaning at the pope joke. Happy Pi(e) Day
March 14th, 2013 4:14 pm
8 that’s a great quote.
March 14th, 2013 6:08 pm
Again I love the videos. I can not get over the Dancing Nana she is a riot!
March 14th, 2013 6:50 pm
#11 – I took my cat to the vet recently and when I went to the front desk to pay the bill, I spied a strange animal in a basket on the desk. Believe it or not, it was a possum! The vet tech told me that they make great pets – they are easily housebroken, they don’t smell, and they are easy to take care of. I was amazed. I never, ever expected to see a possum as a pet! Their hair is stiff and bristly – I petted it and the possum liked it!
March 14th, 2013 8:06 pm
OMG! The possum was pretty slow and docile but I couldn’t take the chance that it would steal my hen eggs or eat the hens. It was ugly up close, a cross between a big rat and and a hairy armadillo. It bared it’s teeth (lightweight and freaky like its feet) to me when I tried to scare it away. I would never want it for a pet!
March 15th, 2013 3:53 pm
Oh. My. God.
I’m gonna have to come back to read the rest of this list, because right now, I am doubled over my desk at number ONE! ROFL!
March 15th, 2013 6:25 pm
I can’t see, (and I was born blind,) so I can’t write with a pen, (although I can sign my first name.) I do have back-ups though, if my computer goes down, I can always use my iPhone, which I type on by using a Bluetooth keyboard. I used to have 2 systems, a desktop and a laptop, but my laptop failed, (incidentally, along with my desktop, which is now working again, in April 2011.)
In light of Google announcing that they will shut Google Reader down on 7/1, I made a list of things they might kill next. http://lifes-adventures.me/post/45377953124/13-things-that-could-be-on-googles-next-hit-list
March 16th, 2013 12:59 pm
The possum at the vet was raised from a wee baby – the mother was killed by a car and it was fed with an eyedropper for a time. So it bonded with humans – like a kitten. No, not a good idea to try to “tame” a grown possum!! But they do make good pets – Google “pet possum”!
March 17th, 2013 5:34 am
despite being in the minority, i have always thought opossums are cute. they can become angry, i understand, and do not always feign coma! actually i heard that they have more than one row of teeth, a scary prospect, but i never researched. raccoons are the ones that have killed hens that belonged to our friends, however. a raccoon dug up from the flooring base of the coop and got right in. killed 3. i understand pens should always have flooring wire that is connected to the sides to prevent this, wire that is often covered by grass, etc. (if i tried to keep your schedule i would be in the hospital! you have more energy than i can even dream about!)
March 17th, 2013 9:48 am
We have lost one chicken to a hawk and one to a raccoon we think when the wind blew the the run the to the chicken coop closed and they couldn’t get back in. We have a straw bale coop inside the garden gate with an electric wire on top. The dirt/straw floor has been okay so far but eventually we will need something sturdier.
January 5th, 2014 8:38 pm
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