Marie I enjoyed playing and listening to songs I never heard before. I got to like artist I never would have tried, a wonderful experience. Take care of yourself.
Hi Marie, I miss all the great music we listened to and discussed. The day after I left SOC, I had a sore throat, which led to heavy coughing and weezing. After 4 days of this, my daughter took me to Urgent Care, they said I had Bronchitis and prescribed antibiotics, steroid, cough med, and inhaler. One practitioner said they saw a shadow on my x-ray and said they would ask a radiologist about it the next day. I didn't hear from them, so I guess it was okay. I feel better than I did, but not 100%. I've been sleeping/resting a lot while listening to music. I try to do some small jobs around here, I tire fast. I did find a female singer I like a lot, her name is Lucy Thomas. She does some duets with a younger sister, one in particular I really like, I believe it's called "You raise me up". I'm thinking of going back to the family doctor this week, my chest has congestion and breathing is shallow, not much coughing though, so that's good. I have been reading as much as I could trying to keep up with all of you. My heart wants to start some seedlings my body is saying no, I don't have the energy to gather the materials, maybe next week. Thanks, Tony
So good to see you back and catching us up on how you are doing, @Tony Page ! I have noticed that you were online sometimes to read, and that made me happy , but to hear from you again is awesome. ! Even if you can’t do it all the time, please stop by when you are feeling up to it and say hello to all of us here.
Hi Tony, glad to see you back. I still listen to music but miss you and Bert my music buddies. I'm sorry you're not feeling good though and hope the meds help to speed up the healing. Last year I felt the same way for a while, they put me on Steroids and inhaler too, really helped me to feel better. I have inhalers but all out of date, so I really need to get one in case I need it. I'll have to listen to Lucy Thomas, and I like the song' You Raise Me Up' a lot.
So good to "see" you, Tony. I hope you feel much better soon. Take care; those seedlings can wait a few days!
I've been doing a lot of sitting, playing music, and thinking, mostly about my past. My family lived in Brooklyn until I graduated high school, and then we moved to the suburbs of Long Island. We went from an apartment to having our own home, a house with 75 X 100 ft piece of land. The first spring in that house is where my love for gardening first started. I knew nothing about gardening, Brooklyn was a concrete jungle. We didn't even have a tree growing on our street. The only place where there was dirt was the Lots or the backyards. My grandmother was a great gardener her backyard was filled with vegetables and flowers, that was her domain, even her Sons, we're not going in there. I wish I had learned some gardening from her she passed when I was about 10 years old, I remember seeing her garden we lived on the second floor the view was great, to me it was just beautiful seeing flowers and vegetables flourishing. I remember our house on Long Island having a band of dirt around most of it's perimeter, I didn't know it was called a "bed." I did know it would be ideal for growing something. I went to a nursery and picked up what looked like a cotton mat that was filled with a variety of flower seeds. I followed the instructions, laid it down , covered it with dirt, and watered it daily. I checked it every day for activity. After about a week, some seedlings were growing. Eventually, I got flowers. Of course, I didn't know a Marigold from a zinnia. I went out and bought a book on annuals so I could identify the flowers. It was like it was branded in my brain, I couldn't believe what I started, I wanted more, and gardening has been with me ever since. That was back in 1962, My favorite nursery back then was a place called the city of glass. Not only did it carry every type of flowers, vegetables, shurbs, trees, tools, chemicals, but it had a pet shop also. It was my happy place. It's gone now, I always thought there should be a place called nature center that was a nursery, pet store, rock collections, etc..
I grew up on lots of land, although we never had a garden, Momma was an ex city slicker who never saw a straw mangy dog or cat she didn't pick up. Service stations would save burnt motor oil ro threat the mange, [ now with all the chemicals in oil it would probably kill the dog} Plus part time we stayed in the city. I still feel I had a wonderful life first 13 years.
I felt that way about my first 17 or 18 years that I lived in brooklyn. I enjoyed it. I also felf your happiness depends on you. I could go to the library and take a book out on animals and spend an afternoon reading, or go outside and drum up a punchball game, you got out of life what you put in. I Was constantly looking to accomplish and do things. There were so many things in life I wanted to learn most of them were not taught in school. So I read alot.
I always liked reading too, my 8th grade teacher turned me onto history and geography, so I always liked learning about that and animals. But mostly I liked roller skating, softball, dancing and swimming when younger before starting a family.
I also grew up reading a lot, and enjoyed reading about animals, and horses especially . I think I read all of the books in the Black Stallion Series, by Walter Farley, and also the Island Stallion series, too. Plus the usual classics for girls, like Jane Eyre, which I still love to read-read now and then. After I got older and my eyesight was not as good anymore, I had to give up reading actual books; but I got a tablet, where I can set the type size to anywhere i need it to be able to read. This is how I do my reading now, as well as being online. My iPad has been a lifesaver for me !