Good Day to all you fine folks. @Terry Page, Our lifestyles are so different, from old world city living to new world country life. The closest I ever came to living in such close quarters, was when I lived three blocks off the Boston Commoms for two years. It was my first experience with intercity parks for people to lounge in, instead of for hunting in. @Honey Gee, I love the color bending in your flower shot. Your's?? @Babs Hunt , I think your delayed weather is sitting on top of us. We've had rain for the last three or four days. @Joe Riley , what a cute little blessing that goes so far for all of us. @Patsy Faye , I've decided to emulate your little friend all snuggled up in his comfy bed. @Ike Willis , when I was 21, I had a 1969 standard Chevy Nova, and no one to work on it, so I called my stepfather. From the problems I described to him, he said I probably needed a carburetor tune up kit, and that it came with instructions, or that my auto manual would explain everything. Well that sounded simple enough, and being an ignorant 21 year old girl helped immensely. It took me all afternoon, and I was doing pretty good I thought, until it said to use something, (I forget what it was called), to set the points. Of course I had no clue, so I called my stepfather again, and he said I could use the top flap of a cigarette matchbook. Well of course those things were all over house so I used that to set the points. That got me to the nearest machanic's shop!! Only ignorance got me through that.
You are one talented woman @Ina I. Wonder! When God made you He must have spilled the gifts and talents bowl and you got not only your own but some of the ones that were supposed to go to some of us.
@Ina I. Wonder not so talented I wish. Just loved the painting. Love water colour. Hope you had a great day.
@Babs Hunt , others use to tell me I was artistic, but what I do isn't art, anymore than what our relatives had to do to keep their homes and families in clothing, linens, quilts, gardens, food storage, and dairy products. Today what we call artistry was only good daily living back then, just as farming, blacksmithing, carpentry, animal husbandry, and hunting were for the men. I came from poor people that made what we needed, and we didn't see ourselves as poor, just self sufficient. But to be able to take something from your imagination and and turn it into something beautiful, now to me that's art. It also was very helpful that I was always looking for ways to learn whatever I needed to know to help my family get ahead. My husband called it my insatiable curiosity, Because I was only allowed 2&1/2 years in school, I wanted an education more than most, so at 35 I started college, and continued to go full time for 19 years, and by working full time, I was able to pay as I went. You can't do that in today's educational system.
It's a wet gloomy day here at 2c (35f) and then tomorrow -16c (3f) so I think we will do a food shop today and stay indoors tomorrow. The temperature indoors is 27c (80f) now, so tee shirt time a few old ladies in the block here complained it was cold (21c) last week so they turned up the heat Have a great Monday....
@Ike Willis - for me I'd choose the penguins every time, although the nuns tried - I didn't like the 'slipper' at all
Mornin'. I hope everyone survived the weekend and the season's first big snowfall. It was my area's first snowfall anyway. We got 5 inches. Love it. Makes me want to get my sled from the tool shed and head for the top of the hill in our front pasture. It really makes me crazy, to be in my second childhood and be too beat up to enjoy it like I did the first one. Speaking of beat up reminds me of the time I met Tommy and Ronny A****s. Tommy was the oldest, the biggest and by far the meanest. Ronny was only a year younger, and not far behind him in everything. Well, Me, Tony and Lou were walking about the downtown streets one night. As we rounded a corner, here come Tom and Ron, walking toward us about a block away. Now Lou thought he was Mr. Cool. Lou dressed in all black, all the time. He wore dark glasses all the time, even at night, just because he thought it was cool. His hair was jet black and always slicked down. And worse yet, he thought and acted like he was a neo Nazi. As Tom and Ron approached, I advised my pals, "just don't say nothing, keep walking". Did they take my advice? Tony did. Lou however, raised his arm in the Nazi salute and says "heil Hitler". I said "Oh s**t". Tony says "oh s**t". And things began to happen. Tom and Ron's dad never came back from WW2. I knew this was gonna get ugly. They both stopped in front of us. Tom told Lou to take his glasses off. Then, salvation came from just around the corner. A squad car rounded the corner, saw Lou take his glasses off, noted the two A****s boys, and came to a stop. I was never so happy to see a cop. I had seen Tom and Ron in action before, and I knew what they were capable of. They were way out of our league. Anyway, our butts were saved that night, but Lou got his what for a week later. That kid took a terrible beating. Spent two nights in the hospital. Lou pretty much had the Nazi beat out of him. That was in 1958. Lou drank himself to death in the 1980's. Tony died just a few months ago. I don't know what happened to the A****s boys. Here's to old times.
Everyone Xx Another accident in the laundry this morning, don't know how these older gals manage to open the washing machine door while its still filled with water ! Fortunately it happened whilst I was out shopping, so only heard about it - water water everywhere - and not a drop to drink
Phew Ike - that was a close shave ! You were being looked after that night. All in black eh, we had a group of people dressed that way the head guy was called Mosley - scary stuff Pleased to hear you have the snow to stir up those grand memories @Ike Willis
@Ina I. Wonder I understand what poor is as I grew up much the same way with eight siblings. And we learned what we had to learn to be self-sufficient too. When my washing machine broke down once and I called a repair service to see how much it would cost to fix and I was informed it would be $75. just for the Service call and no telling what the rest would cost since they didn't know what the problem was...I got out my Reader's Digest Book on How to Fix Anything and picked out what I believed the problem was with my machine, wrote down the part I needed and then called our old apartment Fix It Guy and he got the part for me at discount and then I fixed my own machine as my followed the steps in my How to Fix Anything Book. I did what I had to do just like you. But as we are doing those things Ina, we often find that we have a real gift for some of those things such as sewing our own clothes and finding out we not only sew those clothes but we have a gift for designing that catches others eyes and they want us to sew for them. Anything we try whether out of necessity or just because we want to explore new things...can end up being something we have real talent and giftedness in...not just ordinary but with an artistic flair that goes beyond the norm and makes people sit up and notice...and want it for their own. You have this in many of the things you do Ina. So what you do for neccessity in many cases ends up having artistic flair that draws others to it because it is not just the ordinary.