13: Summer Inventory
1. My life right now is like my garden with everything coming in one after the other or all at once, a beach vacation, Floydfest, a birthday pond party, a moonlight canoe cruise, a blessingway for a young mother, harvesting food and a few full days with the grand kids.
2. Bryce (7) in the garden helping to pick and shuck corn: “Nana, you’re like the farmer and Hopa is the hunter. You don’t even have to go to the grocery store.”
3. Me to Bryce: Are you almost ready to go back to school? Bryce: I don’t like school. Me: I thought you liked school in the first grade and kindergarten. Bryce: No so much now. It kind of takes your time away.
4. If you take a midnight blue moon paddle down the Little River with a bunch of giggling friends and don’t have a picture to show, does that mean it didn’t happen?
5. A new take on “charge it!” HERE
6. We just checked out and watched a movie from the library called Hysteria, which is about the invention of the personal vibrator. The vibrator was the sixth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle and toaster and before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.
7. A group of butterflies is a rabble, which feeds right into my suspicion that flowers are like bar stools they perch on while getting drunk on nectar. Meet my ‘BFs HERE.
8. I can tell we’re at the height of summer because my corn in 8 feet tall.
9. When it comes to corn, I’m in over my head. And these days corn husks are all over the place like an alcoholic’s empty bottles.
10. I must have a twisted sense of humor because I couldn’t stop laughing at THIS video.
11. A bucket list Japanese garden for flower lovers is HERE.
12. A crescent canoe / has fallen from the moon / Now it floats like a thought / down an unknown path / Like a needle threading myth / in a river of purpose / It shines like an arrow / in quiet darkness.
13. You Keep Me Hanging On HERE.
______Thirteen Thursday
August 6th, 2015 12:20 am
Tall corn, Japanese beauty and Butterflies galore. Great 13, CR!
August 6th, 2015 9:23 am
#1Same here too.
#2 and 3 made me smile.
Hahaha to #4. That’s why I like pictures because even if I forget something I’ve got proof that it did happen when I look at the picture.
Another hahaha to #5. Good they didn’t charge right into the camera (almost).
#6. In the 20’s many woman were “healed” of ththeir hysteria because of the vibrator. I’m laughing at that because a lot of women must have been diagnosed by their doctors who wanted badly to heal them.
#7. You are a rabble rouser.
#8. Not that tall here, but close.
#9 That must be why the woman of old made corn husk dolls.
# 10 Not my cup of tea but surely plenty of people got a kick out of the video too.
#11 Wisteria is superior.
#12 <3
#13 You captured that perfectly.
August 6th, 2015 9:23 am
I like your garden analogy. You sound like you’re happily busy–a good way to be.
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August 6th, 2015 9:42 am
I love this.
OMG! That video! I kept waiting for someone to try and turn on the light sabre and kill Darth Vader. LOL!
August 6th, 2015 9:50 am
I kept wanting them to not run, to stand up to the storm troopers and walk through. I think I kept watching to see someone NOT run, but the looks on their faces at something so unbelievable was killing me. I am a big Candid Camera humor fan. Even so, some of my laughing may have been nervous laughter or disbelief at the thought of it.
August 6th, 2015 12:33 pm
It’s definitely the high season for gardeners. Love the Fugi Gardens link — wow! My T13
August 6th, 2015 12:41 pm
That wisteria is amazing!
August 6th, 2015 3:28 pm
Love the gardening analogies, not so much the #10 video. The idea of a bunch of white-suited guys pointing gun-like objects didn’t sit well, I suppose, given what’s going on in the US these days.
I am envious of your garden – mine flopped.
August 7th, 2015 12:39 am
LOVE all the Butterflies……So very delicate and special…..I agree with Bryce about school…..How smart of him to know this already…..lol!
LOVE that Japanese Garden—–I wish I could go there and see it ‘in person’……
Another WONDERFUL T13, my dear Colleen!
August 7th, 2015 8:43 am
I hope you did not watch the movie with the grand children…I did not find that Star Wars prank funny. But I thought it was just a bit cruel and could have given that over weight man a heart attack.
August 7th, 2015 7:07 pm
corn so sturdy and green !!
August 7th, 2015 8:26 pm
butterflies are beautiful!
August 8th, 2015 2:57 pm
Love what did happen … the parts you got pictures of. AND the parts you didn’t! Almost nothing I do with family and friends gets photographed…but it does happen)).