
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
ff - Oh gosh. Can I identify. I earned some physics watching water flow in the channels I made in melting snow. Didn't realize it at the time. There were always interesting things to do. I grew up without tv. I was a late teenager before my parents got one - black and white and you changed the few channels manually. Just the other day I was just talking with R about my push lawn mower activities - in the blazing sun, a foot tall grass one time when I had been away, I took a run at it and cut about 9 inches, backed up and did it again till the lawn was done. My grand kids can't even use a power mower. If you wanted skinless almonds, you skinned them yourself. Poured boiling water on them then after a while popped the skins off. You wanted ground almonds you ground them yourself. Loved the smell of clothes after you brought them in from outside. There was no reason to be bored and doing these things gave you a sense of accomplishment.
My Dad kept busy inventing things in the basement, or doing fix-it stuff, and I was there helping him. Mom kept busy with keeping the house in order without many of the modern gadgets we have today. Wringer washer. Drying clothes on a [gasp] outside clothes line. No dishwasher or microwave.
Now we have that computer in our pocket.
Did you first put a bowl on hub 's head and cut around it?
That is a good way to protect some of the hair, and is a well known hair cutting technique from centuries back. (Lol, a joke).
I guess the protesters might have been saying, why should we distance and wear masks? Republicans don't. Maybe they are giving the South a little taste of their own medicine.
Kinda like here at times when people do not read the entire thread. Yes, I read the entire FB thread. 😳
Just thinking of you daddy. Today you have been gone for 6 yrs. In some ways it seem like just yesterday and other times it seems it has been longer than 6 yrs. I miss you so much. It is hard to believe that tomorrow you would have been 79 yrs old. Happy Birthday dad. I love and miss you. I cry almost everyday for you. I am taking good care of mom and your house. I hope wherever you are you are proud of me.🍀
Six escaped cows dead after collisions in D********.
I grit my teeth and accept it when city news sources call all cattle "cows", but a small rural publication should know better.
Yes, my world is that dull
Just been looking for headbands to keep my hair out of my face - I've got a haircut booked for July 7th but no confidence it will go ahead.
I'm blushing because I looked at a whole webpage of them on young models and thought "omg, they look like complete scrubbers - !"
Are we even allowed to say "scrubbers" any more? My bad.
(But they do)
I did cut hub's hair tonight. :)
I'll leave it at that.
It wasn't very much, was it?
Short answers are best, don't you think? No, really, do you think anyone worries about following the instructions at the start of a thread?
What is on your mind?
This thread is great because what's ON MY MIND is different than what is on everybody else's mind.
I had a property maintenance guy come to assess my gardens for a job, I said right away "6' " but had to keep backing up as he didn't observe it, nor did he seem the least bit concerned about maintaining it. I think I will give the company some feedback. I know outdoors is safer but...
Add to the heat and warmer climate, sunlight doesn't do it either. The wavelength UV-C (which does kill most viruses etc) emitted by the sun is stopped by the ozone later before it gets to us.
Some of us are very concerned about CV spread from the protesters who don't seem to care about social distancing or good hygiene at all. Although most of the crowd here is local (90-95%) there are or have been out of town organizers.
After a week of completely peaceful protests, the outside organizers came up from Nashville to encourage blocking approaches to the area trauma center and were apparently surprised to be arrested when they refused to obey law enforcement directions to move to the sidewalks or parking lots. After bricks were placed at corners in the downtown, the outsiders were uncomfortable with downtown business owners sitting at a table in their window displays with a firearm and coffee cup visible on the table top. LE advised the outsiders' stated intention to take their bricks out of the downtown and business districts (where LE maintained a over-watch presence) to more rural areas would probably not work out well since our area is highly populated with armed homeowners and former military who would call for LE but could be counted on to handle any threat to their families promptly. The outsiders moved on (back to Nashville?) and the protests have continued peacefully without any additional arrests. Never more than at any time in my life, I thank the Lord I am living in a rural community without major crime or racial problems. Where even if we don't like what you're saying/doing, if you're not harming anyone we let it go.
I'm praying the violence ends while peaceful protests and police reform talks return to our country soon. I feel such sorrow for the defender deaths, property owners with looted or burned out shells, and people who must now live in destroyed areas without basics like grocery stores and pharmacies. If a mob has looted and burned your local CVS, how safe can you feel in your nearby home? It's hard not to feel 2020 is (to paraphrase the Queen) a horrible year - and its not even half over yet.
CW, it was a cynical question.