19 August 2012
Bad Ideas
19/08/12 05:09
OK THAT was a surprise
I went down to the garden to water. I picked a pepper and a cuke, then pulled some weeds. Now in the middle of one bed among the tomatoes is this plant. It's about a foot tall and I was letting it grow to see what it was. I thought I recognized it but wasn’t sure. We’ll it’s been growing fo a few weeks and I finally decided that it wasn't a volunteer from last years garden and so wasn’t likely to yield any produce. I grabbed it to yank it out of the ground and that’s when I remembered what it was. It’s a nettle. My hands kept reminding me of this all night long.
I have to get better at recognizing plants on sight.
Have been batching for a week now and I’m rediscovering all sorts of things that I learned in college but had forgotten over the years. For example I remembered that it was more environmentally sound to shower in the morning than in the evening. Now you may be thinking to yourself, what difference can it make? A shower is a shower, right. Well, you see my reasoning goes like this. When you shower in the evening you go to bed assuming that the bed is the cleanest thing in the house. Therefore in order to not wake up dirty and have to shower all over again you have to wash the sheets etc. often. It being the hot week we always get in August that would have meant daily batches of laundry. Not very efficient at all. On the other hand if I shower in the morning, I don’t have to worry about it as much and so do less laundry and save water, time, electricity and of course money. So that’s what I’m doing. I’m keeping clean and not worrying about the sheets. Of course I think I may have to do them soon. They are sounding like cellophane when I get into bed and I think in another week they might just fracture into pieces. Oh well we needed new sheets anyway.
Isn’t it amazing the ideas I get when it’s just me and the cats?
But I wasn’t the only person up here to get brilliant ideas. There was the mayor of Toronto. He’d made a big deal about fiscal responsibility and how he was just a normal Joe who, among other things, didn’t need a chauffeur to drive him to meetings. They photographed him this week driving to a meeting, while SIMULTANEOUSLY reading a report he needed for that same meeting.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/08/14/rob-ford-chicago321.html
Sometimes there is a subtle difference between populism and silly. I think he crossed that line.
And then there was the accident report that was released this week from a plane crash last year. It seems that the pilot lost control of the plane when he was trying talk and text on his cell phone and fly the plane at the same time.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/13/bc-texting-plane-crash.html
I told Marsha about this and she immediately asked “What the hell was he thinking?”.
“Watch out for that tree” comes to mind, even if his name wasn’t George.
In the news this week there was a listing of “The Top Ten Most Liveable Cities in the World”.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Vancouver+third+most+livable+city+world+Economist/7099089/story.html
Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary Canada were among worlds most liveable cities. Also included were Melbourn, Adelade, Perth, and Sydney Australia, Auckland New Zealand, Helsinki Finland, and Vienna Austria. A note to our friends on the East Coast, Are you as surprised as I am that, Baltimore Maryland wasn’t on the list? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked at this oversight.
And finally a joke for all the nurses I know (and I seem to know quite a few).
So I saw this guy carrying a spare arm bone so I asked him why. He answered “Well believe it or not, I found this humerus.”
Doug& Marsha
PIX: The Moon, Venus and Jupiter at Dawn, and look what I found parked in front of the Credit Union
I went down to the garden to water. I picked a pepper and a cuke, then pulled some weeds. Now in the middle of one bed among the tomatoes is this plant. It's about a foot tall and I was letting it grow to see what it was. I thought I recognized it but wasn’t sure. We’ll it’s been growing fo a few weeks and I finally decided that it wasn't a volunteer from last years garden and so wasn’t likely to yield any produce. I grabbed it to yank it out of the ground and that’s when I remembered what it was. It’s a nettle. My hands kept reminding me of this all night long.
I have to get better at recognizing plants on sight.
Have been batching for a week now and I’m rediscovering all sorts of things that I learned in college but had forgotten over the years. For example I remembered that it was more environmentally sound to shower in the morning than in the evening. Now you may be thinking to yourself, what difference can it make? A shower is a shower, right. Well, you see my reasoning goes like this. When you shower in the evening you go to bed assuming that the bed is the cleanest thing in the house. Therefore in order to not wake up dirty and have to shower all over again you have to wash the sheets etc. often. It being the hot week we always get in August that would have meant daily batches of laundry. Not very efficient at all. On the other hand if I shower in the morning, I don’t have to worry about it as much and so do less laundry and save water, time, electricity and of course money. So that’s what I’m doing. I’m keeping clean and not worrying about the sheets. Of course I think I may have to do them soon. They are sounding like cellophane when I get into bed and I think in another week they might just fracture into pieces. Oh well we needed new sheets anyway.
Isn’t it amazing the ideas I get when it’s just me and the cats?
But I wasn’t the only person up here to get brilliant ideas. There was the mayor of Toronto. He’d made a big deal about fiscal responsibility and how he was just a normal Joe who, among other things, didn’t need a chauffeur to drive him to meetings. They photographed him this week driving to a meeting, while SIMULTANEOUSLY reading a report he needed for that same meeting.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/08/14/rob-ford-chicago321.html
Sometimes there is a subtle difference between populism and silly. I think he crossed that line.
And then there was the accident report that was released this week from a plane crash last year. It seems that the pilot lost control of the plane when he was trying talk and text on his cell phone and fly the plane at the same time.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/13/bc-texting-plane-crash.html
I told Marsha about this and she immediately asked “What the hell was he thinking?”.
“Watch out for that tree” comes to mind, even if his name wasn’t George.
In the news this week there was a listing of “The Top Ten Most Liveable Cities in the World”.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Vancouver+third+most+livable+city+world+Economist/7099089/story.html
Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary Canada were among worlds most liveable cities. Also included were Melbourn, Adelade, Perth, and Sydney Australia, Auckland New Zealand, Helsinki Finland, and Vienna Austria. A note to our friends on the East Coast, Are you as surprised as I am that, Baltimore Maryland wasn’t on the list? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked at this oversight.
And finally a joke for all the nurses I know (and I seem to know quite a few).
So I saw this guy carrying a spare arm bone so I asked him why. He answered “Well believe it or not, I found this humerus.”
Doug& Marsha
PIX: The Moon, Venus and Jupiter at Dawn, and look what I found parked in front of the Credit Union