Tuesday, August 29, 2006
On Turner Pond
We recently have had a mystery regarding our beautiful pond. The pond has an upper pond that runs down into a lower bigger pond via a small waterfall. Lately we have notice fish in the upper pond....IMPOSSIBLE. There is no way for these fish to get up there, yet we have rescued six fish to date from the upper pond. Now with the first two we just figured that fish eggs traveled through the filter system and were placed up there and hatched. Then when two more arrived we figured we just missed them the first time. We then drained the upper pond, caught those two and put them in the lower pond. At this point we were confident we had the problem fixed...WRONG....
We have once again discovered two more fish up there. It is impossible for these fish to swim up there, they are too big to fit through the filter and we are sure the fish fairy is not depositing orphaned fish in our upper pond. I suppose we will never figure this mystery out and that we just need to enjoy the pond and accept the magic fish that appear.
So each night ,as we use to sit and enjoy the wonders of the night sky and our happy fish swimming in the lower pond, we now sit and enjoy the wonders of the magical upper pond and look to the night sky in confusion.
There are mysteries that will never be solved and I fear this is one of them.
We have once again discovered two more fish up there. It is impossible for these fish to swim up there, they are too big to fit through the filter and we are sure the fish fairy is not depositing orphaned fish in our upper pond. I suppose we will never figure this mystery out and that we just need to enjoy the pond and accept the magic fish that appear.
So each night ,as we use to sit and enjoy the wonders of the night sky and our happy fish swimming in the lower pond, we now sit and enjoy the wonders of the magical upper pond and look to the night sky in confusion.
There are mysteries that will never be solved and I fear this is one of them.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Scouting for Furniture
The family room furniture has developed enough frays, small holes, and finally a completely broken reclining joint, to warrant new replacement pieces. The volume of choices out there is overwhelming. My better half will commit to only an hour of this torture, so it falls to me to narrow down the choices. That is no small task! Couches for example come in a multitude of shapes, styles, sizes, not to mention textures, heights, thicknesses, materials, colors, usage issues. Do you want a hide a bed, a recliner, three cushion, two cushion blah blah blah. It's a couch for goodness sakes. What happened to three choices and delivery tomorrow? Then there are matching chairs, or accent chairs, arms or no arms, wood or no wood, rocker, recliner, swivel or stationary. Blah Blah Blah
Needless to say I was overwhelmed and confused at times. Then I saw the light. I simply walked in the furniture store, told them what I wanted and asked them to show me three examples. Picked one...Went home, got my better half, took him in and had him sit on all three and picked one. Chose the colors right then....Out in 50 minutes with delivery on Thursday.
Mission accomplished and all is well. Our family room will soon be functional again! Hopefully this will event will not have to take place again for at least another 10 years.
Needless to say I was overwhelmed and confused at times. Then I saw the light. I simply walked in the furniture store, told them what I wanted and asked them to show me three examples. Picked one...Went home, got my better half, took him in and had him sit on all three and picked one. Chose the colors right then....Out in 50 minutes with delivery on Thursday.
Mission accomplished and all is well. Our family room will soon be functional again! Hopefully this will event will not have to take place again for at least another 10 years.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Global Warming? What makes you think that!
I wouldn't want anyone to take the idea of global warming seriously. Just ignore the fact that we are so hot nationally that you can't tell what state you are in when you step outside your door. Florida, Arizona, Maryland, Michigan,Alabama, they are all the same give maybe one or two degrees and possibly a few percentages of humidity! Give me a break! We must get rid of our demands for fossil fuels and start looking at a cleaner, environmentally safer form of energy! We need to heal our environment and we can start that by burning up "The Shrub"! I don't see his air conditioning going out or his car, plane, or helicopter running out of fuel. He isn't worried about the rate that energy is costing us more and more, and by costing I don't mean only in money. When will Americans start thinking again? I am tired of the stupidity and the waste. There I have said my piece, now I will turn off my TV, my computer and throw away my newspaper so that I can pretend that stupidity isn't really running America and we are doing something to make things better. Please don't burst my bubble and let me sit in my fantasty world for at least an hour or two.
