The soaring high temps were set to ease off, so I planned to get back to phase 2 of the paver patio. However, last night the winds started up again, burying the 2 major cross-overs from my side of the tracks to the big box store, a required stop before any further work could be completed due to yet another "flit ter" on the wheelbarrow.
On the way to work today, I stopped by my friends' home in JT, where progress on doubling the size of the living space has been underway for about 6 months. The swim spa is so big, and a demo of the water jets showed me a current that could probably wipe out the strongest swimmer in short order. The garage is coming along nicely :) along with the other specialty rooms that tailor this home to my friends' comfort needs.
In the course of the conversation, I mentioned the continuing failure of the wheelbarrow wheel -- and got a "no puncture" tire replacement from Fat Matt's stash. The first phase of his renovation was a workshop to house all of the stuff in the old garage, which had to be torn down before the rest of the expansion project could break ground. During the relocation of stuff from the old garage to the new shop, Fat Matt found specific spots for specific items, which allowed him to have an ah-ha moment that led to my good fortune.
So, manana, I'm back outside (hopefully, the winds will die down) to install phase 2 of the paver patio before the predicted rains come in over the weekend. The clock is ticking and I'm not getting done what I want done before some other commitments have to take their place at the head of the to-do list.
chop-chop! busy-busy!
Success is not determined so much by the position one has reached in life, but more so by the obstacles one has overcome while attempting to succeed. --Unknown
Vegetation
What happens when one forgets the basket of onions one left on top of the 'fridge
Soaring above the competition is all in how you see it.
"... there are great perils in rising too quickly in any organization. Hawks may soar, but chipmunks don't get sucked into jet engines."
--Joseph Finder, Paranoia, p.183
--Joseph Finder, Paranoia, p.183
Metal Sculpture
photo by Monique
Ignorance is so not Bliss
As Issac Asimov said, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." (Jan. 21, 1980).
Ranger
Our little guy grows up
Another perspective
If you think you're a leader but no one is following you, you're just taking a walk.
When Mia shares her floor cushion,
you know the dogs have bonded.
Every Day is Mother's Day
He asked, "What's your mother going to say when you tell her?"
The round black face screwed up in astonishment. "I ain' gonna tell her. That'd be fucked up. You never win no arguments 'gainst yo' mother." --Jeffery Deaver, The Broken Window (266)
The round black face screwed up in astonishment. "I ain' gonna tell her. That'd be fucked up. You never win no arguments 'gainst yo' mother." --Jeffery Deaver, The Broken Window (266)
Perspective on Self
"But with adults I see absolutely no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves." --The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, p 141-42
I'm Watching You ...
but you can't see me!
Explaining the Moment
"You know ... sometimes you do things you don't really understand. You just have to do them. Sense or no sense--it really doesn't matter much." --Scott Turow, Innocent, p 64.
Albert Einstein on teaching ...
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
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from The Innocent, by author Harlan Coben
"The world is neither cruel nor joyous. It is simply random, full of particles hurtling, chemicals mixing and reacting. There is no real order. There is no preordained cursing of the evil and protecting of the righteous.
Chaos, baby, It's all about chaos."
Chaos, baby, It's all about chaos."
Spotting Daisy
... casing the neighborhood from the front room window.
Confucius said ...
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
About Me
- Liza
- I am the person who lives inside my soul; I just have to figure out who she is and where she's been all these years.
Please, don't disturb me: I'm reading a book
"I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page."
--Naomi Shihab Nye
--Naomi Shihab Nye
Primary Motivation: an unread book
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." --Kathleen Norris
George Orwell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Life Lesson
One of the things I noticed in all of this was the simultaneous delicacy and brutality of the scalpel. How much people can hurt, the ways they hurt, and how sometimes they have to get hurt even more so they'll get better in the long run.
--John Sandford, Preface, Eyes of Prey
--John Sandford, Preface, Eyes of Prey
A Book Makes Any Day a Better Day
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."--Charles W. Eliot
Quotation
The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious -- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe -- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others--some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
--Atticus Finch, closing remarks to the jury, To Kill a Mockingbird
--Atticus Finch, closing remarks to the jury, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Update: the tire didn't fit my wheelbarrow, so I've bought a hand pump and will keep the original tire inflated while I work.
I've hired 2 former students to fetch the rocks from a nearby roadside and finish that part of the landscaping, as well as helping me remove a HUGE rock that is right where it should not be.
Finally, Gabe is coming over to provide an estimate on a watering system. Althought the weather began the week at 112 degrees, it's ended with tornadoes and snow in the mountains! Either way, I cannot leave for 10 days without having water available to keep in place what's now there.
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Lowe's I go. Again.
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