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82 responses to “A Light Nap”
Have seen a couple of TV shows about people building “tiny houses”. To me, they seem rather expensive for what you get, and once the novelty wears off…permanent cabin fever.
And don’t even get me started on half-million-dollar tree houses. Robin Williams once said that cocaine is God’s way of telling you you have to much money. Those may be the architectural equivalent.
Thanks, Mark; that’s them. All these years later, they don’t seem to have increased very much in price. I should probably get a pair. I’m sure they would come in handy at least once a decade around here. 🙂
GR6,
Sounds like you live near me. We’ve hit a low of 30 degrees once in 2016 and maybe a half dozen times in 2015. In my 77 + years, I’ve seen snow accumulate maybe 10 times. Went skiing in ’85 in Colorado. That will last me the rest of my life. I prefer the Southern Caribbean or equivalent when Winter comes. God bless us every one.
Probably more useful for emb and Steve from Royal Oak, MI. Better suited to their climate.
Ghost do you NEVER plan on leaving the Mississippi Gulf coast?
I knoe, why leave the most perfect place in America?
I am back in bed with Sylvester. I almost said who the heck would sleep with a Sylvester? Then I remembered Stallone. Who the heck WOULD sleep with Sylvester or an Arnold either?
Listening to Sirius I discovered I liked Jackson Briwne. They give name of song and artist. No one here ever mentions Jackson Browne. Is there a reason?
ghost and emb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroda_Seiki
And about the pic from TIP: http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/58/index.html
I am going to Australia in November when it will be late spring or early summer if my Antipodean calculations are correct. Lots of friends but just going to ramble around alone, connect up with friends in different parts of country. One is a member of the Village here that has moved there. It’s a big continent.
I am back on to go to Antarctica in January but not signing on until zip see Orthopedist on Thursday and cardiologist end of month. I will need some of that underware, thank you Mark.
Summer trip in 2017 will be England, Scotland Ireland and Wales.
Waiting for warm season there and this summer is totally booked in America. With a side trip up into Canada now and then. Gary I will have to get to middle to come see you. Thinking of going to North Channel so that would put me closer to you.
Right now I am shooting for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for six weeks hopefully.
OF due now-1206 [or later?] CST.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
emb
Perhaps when “Susie” gets her next “makeover”, or reincarnates herself, or whatever she does, she will end up looking like this…and become a bacon lover.
http://mediacdn.snorgcontent.com/media/catalog/product/t/h/thatstoomuchbacon_f_fullpic_1.jpg
Have Damarts in the bottom draw – been in unopened bag 35+ years.
They are only L so maybe that is why.
We are having a heat wave – a tropical heat wave. +19*
I quit Facebook about a year ago when I bought a new computer and didn’t want to have the attendant privacy concerns on my new machine that Facebook would cause.
Might be a pure coincidence, but spam has dropped to near zero, even though I increased my online purchases in the last year.
Opinions?
Tiny houses:
I won’t mention his name, but a fellow who used to post here now lives in a tiny house with his wife.
It’s been nine months to a year, I think, and, the last I heard, they love it.
Think Thoreau and his urging to “Simplify, simplify.”
I thought about moving to a boat but it would have sunk by now.
Just remember, Rick, Facebook’s business model is mining their user’s private data and selling it. This is only one of the reasons that I’ve never had an account there.
Rick: “Think Thoreau and his urging to ‘Simplify, simplify.’ ” Recent New Yorker* has a disturbing article on a thwarted ‘school shooter’ who may be of normal smarts but on the ‘autism spectrum’ and a critical article about Thoreau, who turns out to have been a phony in some respects [e.g., Mom brought him food sometimes, and he often went into town only a few miles away] and who had trouble empathizing with others. Today, we might characterize him as of normal smarts but on the ‘autism spectrum’. Spooky. *It’s around some place, but cannot find it just now. One of the Oct. ’15 issues, I think.
Peace, emb
“All the world is crazy but thee and me.
And sometimes I wonder of thee.”
Did Thoreau claim to be a hermit?
Renounce All material things?
He just wanted to be alone for awhile.
Y’all: Fave local supermkt had a clearance sale on gri’its [not Quaker, some other brand] two mo. ago. Bought four boxes, have been using it, liberally laced w/ red seedless grapes, as a non-fat breakfast cereal. No butter, make it w/ skim milk rather than water. Bought some yellow cornmeal at the co-op, did the same thing. Cornmeal mush, I guess. Detect little if any diff. in flavor. Why one rather than the other?
Peace, emb
OB: In ‘On Walden Pond’ [if that’s the title], he claimed quite a bit, incl. the delights of not having to be w/ others, and more self-sufficiency than he really had. Lots of quotes, and also lots of posthumous adulation, much by people who seem not to have read the book, but have romanced his ‘Simplify, simplify.’ I’ve not read it either, just the review, which has lots of direct Thoreau quotes, some not from the book.
Three of us used B.F. Skinner’s ‘Walden 2’ in a team-taught intro honors course, along w/ other readings, but that’s different. Used A. Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ the same quarter, I think, Ursula LeGuin’s ‘The Dispossessed’, and perhaps Thos. Moore’s ‘Utopia.’ Also used ‘The Dispossessed’ and John Fowles’s ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ together. They pair very well. Hon. 100 wasn’t always about utopias and dystopias, but that was a natural. Also Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ one of those terms. Fun.
Peace, emb
Modern grits are commonly made of alkali-treated corn known as hominy, in which case it may be called “hominy grits”. “Instant grits” and “quick grits” use hominy processed for faster cooking, widely sold in supermarkets. — Wikipedia
There’s the difference. Corn meal comes straight from corn, grits generally takes a detour through hominy.
Difference may be mostly in cooking speed and color. And on the farm, hominy may be easier to grind? I grew up eating hominy at great-granny’s in Pocahontas.
One advantage of pro is being able to have the strips emailed to you. If you fall behind you have them in the inbox for when you get to them. I’ve been pro for several years and would not give it up. Cheap entertainment compared to the near 450.00 a year the paper has gotten
to.
Debbe 😉 My sister’s favorite genre of pop music was Motown. Many days when I sat with her in the hospital, I used my Bluetooth headset and my smart phone to play it for her as she lay in bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425GpjTSlS4
Good morning Villagers….
Yesterday was a good day, despite the cold. Really like my new co-worker, as a matter of fact, he is ‘Skittles’ older brother…..as I’ve said, Jonathan is the new Farm Manager, and I’m not related to him (Ian was once, then Andrew). It’s going to take time, but we’ll get that hen house back in shape. The Boss wants to see another 25 years out of it…..well, better be prepared to spend some money, honey 🙂
Emb….re: today’s TIP….don’t even go there….besides, they spelled my name wrong 🙂
I’ve no idea what brand my thermals are, I just look for the front, which is sewn for a man. Maybe I should look into women’s thermal….nah, these do just fine.
Jackie, pray you get to feeling well soon. Don’t like to hear it when you are under the weather. Like Mark said….that purring can put you to sleep.
When I hear the word ‘grits’, I think of the mini series “Roots”, “they’re called grits, dummy”.
Ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 Your post put tears in my eyes….playing Motown for your sister, great era of songs there. Was she your ‘baby sister’?
When Mom had the bridal shop, we would do bridal shows on Super Bowl Sunday. We opened the ‘show’ with that year’s prom dresses. I picked the music, showed the high school girls how to strut their stuff down the mini runway….I always opened with this….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNw1ZPzqP9Q
They did great during rehearsals, but froze up on the audience, so….there I am behind the speakers, below the runway, strutting, hollering, move it babe, strut it, all the time dancing to the tunes….it helped ease their ‘stage fright’…we put on some good bridal shows. Mom knew I was one crazy daughter, said she never worried about me being on my own in my younger days, because she knew I had survival skills….that one always ‘slayed’ me 🙂 Miss my Mom.
today’s ‘groan’
http://cheezburger.com/8600837888