While many of my friends in UK and USA are freezing and wishing for an early Spring, I am sitting here sweltering. Even with two fans going full speed, the water (perspiration) is dripping down my neck from my hair and my clothes are stuck to me. Storms threaten but come to nothing, so the humidity remains 80-90%. Wouldn’t it be great if we could exchange just some of our weather and we’d all be in ideal climates?
We can’t exchange weather but we can exchange greetings, so I’m wishing you a very happy and fulfilling week ahead. Here’s some good advice from Mr Anonymous:
¶ What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
¶ Not everything that counts can be counted - and not everything that can be counted, counts.
¶ The person that loses his conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
¶ If I never had a bad day, how would I know when I was having a good day?
G'day Terry. Well it's the first day of Spring, but I think that someone forgot to tell me old body that. Just not that much spring in it at the moment. Darned flu sure takes it out of you. Still nature's responding rather well and the trees are all flowering and the birds seem pretty happy too. I'm sure it will rub off sooner or later.
Had a song on my mind for quite a while now and finally got around to penning it and adding a few chords. At least the old brain is still trying to work. Chris and I head off on a tour of Western N.S.W. and down to the Mildura Country Music Festival for a week and then across to the Wondara Woolshed Doo near Tumbarrumba for another week and then back to Queensland for the Widgee Bush Balladeers Muster in late October.
I hope this finds you well and I've changed some of my works on my blog MY ORIGINAL BUSH POETRY BALLADS AND YARNS. Good to catch up and keep smiling.
G'day my friend. Sorry about not getting over sooner but I've been down and out with the flu. Just starting to come good a bit now. I hope that you have been keeping well and be sure to drop over when ever you can to check out a little Aussie culture.
I have just been talking to my youngest son, who is on a 6-7 month honeymoon, travelling in a roundaboutway, through Europe and Asia, to Australia. He is in Beijing. They rode the Trans-Siberian Railway, stopping at Lake Baikal and then a few weeks in Mongolia. They trekked with nomadic families through rural Mongolia, where the diet was very different - no fruit or veges, but horse milk, camel cheese, and meat (they didn’t WANT to know what it was) They don’t want to see any meat for quite some time hence. They loved the experience and their stomachs are returning to normal after plenty of salads and fruit.
… so thinking of experiences …
¶ The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
¶ The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway
¶ Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun
I hope none of my friends are offended, but I have changed my settings to disallow ratings. I DO appreciate ratings from friends but as most know I am on a monthly download limit and slow speed. Checking ratings uses download and time. By disallowing them I have more download to use for talking with friends, which means more to me than page views. I hope you understand.
Tomorrow I am buying myself an electric vegetable steamer so I am looking forward to using my new toy. Any hints from experienced hands?
… speaking of experience …
¶ Experience is what you get by not having it when you need it
¶ Learn all you can from the mistakes of others: you won't have time to make them all yourself
¶ If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd be millionaires
¶ The problem with experience? when you get it you're too old to do anything with it
¶ Experience causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones
Brrrr! Winter has arrived in sunny Queensland. I very seldom wear more than a light cardigan in the house all winter, but I am wearing TWO woollen jumpers and have a rug over my legs. This is most unusual weather for here, but I still prefer it to the hot, humid, steamy summers.
I have all the very urgent work finished and away, but still have a number of projects on my list. I also have another new “toy”- a photo printer which is reputed to print photo-lab quality photos which will last for 100 years. That is an easy claim for Canon to make because who will be around to dispute it?
A few thoughts:
¶ Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes
¶ Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big
¶ An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
¶ How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four: calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg!
One day to go before I leave and I am thankful to say I have most things completed. I’ve just finished the laminating and comb binding and only have a couple of small jobs left. Then I’ll have to update my laptop with all the new work. Apart from that it is just a matter of packing all the gear and of course my own things. I will be away for at least a week, but it will be two weeks if I go on to Sydney.
A few thoughts:
¶ Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit
¶ You are making progress if each mistake is a new one
¶ The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
¶ If the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, are only left handed people are in their right mind?
¶ If a vegetarian is someone who eats vegetables, what does that make a humanitarian?
The weekend is almost here. Have a good one. See you when I get back. Happy yuwie-ing!
