Peek a Boo.....

I didn't cross my heart

nor hope to die.

I did poke my finger

in my eye.

A week ago today I was sitting here at the computer. I reached up to rub the inside corner of my eye because it was itching probably due to allergies maybe or whyever eyes itch. I wasn't even thinking about what I was doing. Suddenly, yow, I poked my eye in the corner with my fingernail! Ouch, ouch, and duh to me. Hurt. What a dunce. Anyway, it is looking much better now a week later. The red is fading. It's nearly back to normal. People are no longer looking at me like I might be a vampire or something. And I guess that's all I have to say about that. Toodles and ta ta and catch ya later, etc. :)

Requiem for a Bush

Alas the day has come and gone
when the bush stood large and strong.
We cut it down, we cut it down
all the way down to the ground.
It's dead, it's dead, the bush is dead.
Long live the bush, the bush is dead.

half gone

all gone..

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I'm almost sorry I cut the bush down. I think it looked better with it there. But.... the blooms were so overpowering. The pollen from them would literally make me sick each spring. And the yellow jackets loved this bush. So... with my son's help (he did it all) I cut it down.

C'est La Vie

Was reading my sister's blogs this morning, and on one she has something like "time is just flying by, I no sooner get up in the morning and turn around a couple of times and it's night again". Forgive me sis if this isn't word for word correct. But you get the gist, and it is so true. I count my days by going to bed at night. Each night I think, well here I am again. Like zoom and there you are again and then again, over and over and over, days and days become years and years, and on and on.
Kind of someone's idea of a joke, but not at all very funny..... or maybe it is. There a saying somewhere about "you might as well laugh". And then
there's the Peggy Lee song from long ago "if that's all there is my
friend, then let's keep dancing. Let's break out the booze and
have a ball, if that's all there is." And so, maybe we need to just
laugh and have a drink and dance and forget about all this,
cause it's all the same in the end anyway.

Such is life.....

A Couple Little Poem Things...

My dear devoted readers, I most humbly apologize for neglecting you for such a long time. As many of you know, I lead a very busy and active life. Sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day to do all that I'd like to do. Sometimes pleasures such as blog writing are forfeited in order to complete the varied and numerous tasks that comprise my days and time. Again, I do apologize and will try to do better. And that brings me to today's post.

When I was about 12 or 13 years old several little poem/rhyme/ditties circulated my school. They were silly little things that I and my classmates thought were quite fun. I would like to share with you the two that I have remembered these many long years. I have no idea of the original authors, and hopefully I'm not infringing on any copyrights, and if I do, hopefully I will be forgiven.

poem #1

Two men dressed in pink and green
went to Harvard in a flying machine.
Something went wrong and down they fell.
Instead of Harvard they went to .....
Now don't get excited and don't get pale.
Instead of Harvard, they went to Yale.

poem #2

I love you little.
I love you mighty.
I love your pajamas
next to my nighty.
Now don't get excited
and don't be misled.
I mean on the clothesline
and not in the bed.

And that, my dears, comprises today's most anticipated post.
With bows I leave you now.

My friend is coming for a visit.....

We have known each other just about 60 years. She got her airline ticket today. She will fly from Oklahoma in early March to visit for a full month! Yay, yay, and hip hip hooray!

Age Old Question Unscrambled!

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Which came first??

People have debated this provocative question for many many years. Now, finally, there is an answer! Well, rather, there is a very strong theory. You see, according to CNN* and How Stuff Works**, genetic material cannot change inside an already living breathing organism. But.. if two organisms come together and both produce a mutation into an egg, then that mutation could hatch and become something other than the parents, hence before there were chickens, there were creatures that produced eggs. One such egg contained mutations from both parents and produced the very first chicken like creature.


"Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken."**




And there you have it! I just know that you are very glad that I have answered this age old question that you have been worried about for such a long time.


*http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/
** http://science.howstuffworks.com/genetic-science/question85.htm

Our "New" Couch (or sofa to some)...

The reason I put new in quotation marks is because it's new to us. I love thrift stores. That is my favorite place to purchase furniture, well usually. Occasionally I buy some sort of put together thing at Wal-Mart, like the computer desk, tv stand, and several etcs. Anyway, there are some who think our couch is, um, well strange might be one word to use. But we like it. It matches the yellow walls of our living room. My grandson's favorite color is green and the couch is green. As I said, we like it. We love it. And it was cheap. Can't beat that combination of positives.