just for now!!!

Good morning all!!

I found this on Flickr yesterday

much to my surprise

I find it hilarious that both of them were picked

If you could have seen the photos they were surrounded by

beautiful serene sensuous arty breath taking photos

and

...

them

ha ha ha ha ha

Just thought I would

share

as they say

and I'll be back a little later

maybe

don't know with what

but you know me

I always find some nonsense to post about

ha ha ha haaaaaaaa



this is just a post

I really have nothing people

no rants

no raves

no pictures of beautiful things

not going to discuss world affairs

and stupid nasty raving lunatic men

not going to

so

what then

I found these photos on the camera

and that's what you're going to get today

:)

I will, right here and now,

say thank you for all the lovely comments you made about the

snow people

...

over on Flickr too

(I know some of you come here from there...so thanks for that too)

the Missus has been invited into two groups

which is kind of neat 

and I will say I am not going into production

I have sated my need to have them and they will sit

on the shelf together where I can see them

and smile

maybe every now and then I will make a new 'at for them

but maybe not!!!

 I baked another cake the day before yesterday

which is why you see two broken eggs there

I wanted a Victoria Sponge

I looked for my recipe and couldn't find it and then remembered I had thrown all those oily greasy floury pieces of paper, that I called my recipe file, away

so I had to look it up on line

I found one

and I don't recommend it

but I will eat it

even though it isn't the best

but I didn't know that before I baked it

which is why

this goofy thing was done

I took photos of the washing up

.....

aren't you just too too excited

.......

I think my camera objected because there were more but they all turned out blurry and bad

and it also objected to having cake batter all over it

oh the trials and tribulations of being a photographer and a set designer

!!!!!!!!!

we woke up to a dusting of snow yesterday

and cold returned too

but the sun came out and it felt like Spring again by afternoon

I, on the other hand, was truly disappointed when the needles I ordered

didn't arrive in the mail

and I do so long to try them out

the old ones are just making me crazy

I undid or tried to undo

a big tangled mess o'yarn

was able to wind half of it before this happened and I gave up

yesterday was one of those days you wonder why you got up!

But I did make my self a really yummy dinner

as a reward for not biting anyone's head off or throwing them in the lake!!!

I made some fish, which I sauted, with green beans, corn

and rice.......

no I didn't take you a picture!!!!

I thought about it but the husband walked in and I felt really, really silly!

:)

maybe next time, because this week I'm eating fish and steak

every night

no not together

with lots of veggies

and

CAKE!!!!

the husband doesn't do real food the way I like it

so he's on his own

or he has to put in his order for whatever it is he feels like

but in time enough for me to know

I'm like that!!!

Something else I did yesterday was try to do a new stitch

 that Dear Sweet

Nilla

has been trying to teach me

from her blog and an e-mail

long distance knitting lessons

ain't life grand!!!

Right before I started writing this

I was sat here

 ( as they say in the North of England and I love it)

  needles in hand trying to do what she shows

here

this sweet woman has two sick kids and she isn't feeling that great either

 but she

sent a photo with instructions

for me to follow

Nilla, I am trying as hard as my brain will let me to figure out what a

hank is

I will let you know if I do!!!

If you go to her blog and I hope you will

you will see her explanation of where this pattern comes from

so

"tack så mycket!"

Nilla

I really appreciate the help

:)

and that is all I have

today

I am trying not to think about the needles that didn't arrive

I hope they come today

I hope they aren't stuck in the snow somewhere along the line

so how's about a cup o'tea and a small slice of

CAKE!!!!!!

and I will leave you with this

a sneek peek at what popped into the brain this morning at

5 am

when I awoke

and then I'll have to go and hunt down a video place where I can watch the end of

"V"

because I fell asleep while watching it last night

silly silly silly show

but I watch it!!!!

see you later

all you lovely people you

:)

for your enjoyment...

the sister sent me this

thank you sister!!!

:)

for those of you who don't speak English as a first language

and for those of you who do

now you know why it ain't easy!!!!

fascinating, interesting, informative

 and

sooo cooool dude!!!!!

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You think English is easy???

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language! There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French Fries in France ... Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth,beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this...

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'.

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP! When is rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When is doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP!

I don't know where this came from

unless the sister tells me

so thank you for this wonderful look into

a language so many of us speak

but pay little attention to

Cheers and

bottoms UP

:)

a baby called "Facebook" and other things

the story here

and how to start a revolution on your phone

here

for those of you who want to know!!!!

and other things

a bird waiting to eat in the tree and you can see the sky

grey and blegh

.........

we are going to be getting rain and then snow

later today

when I got up this morning

before dawn

it was clear and really lovely when the sun came up!!

but soon after, the clouds started rolling in

and the whole atmosphere about the place changed

dull and gloomy and yuck!!

we did a bit of shopping

you know for the feline of the species

as she has consumed all those cans of food I feel like I bought just five minutes ago

poor little thing

she really doesn't eat a lot

I just feel like all I do is feed and water her

 straighten her bed

sweep the hair off the floor

and make sure she is loved

and all she does is

eat drink

fill the house with noxious fumes

and

sleep

you know

just like any cat

next to the grocery store we frequent

is a pre-school

on the roof were a ton of sea gulls all huddled together looking

miserable and tired

the coast must be getting the brunt of the system

I WISH I'd taken my camera

I really must start doing that

note to self

...

these photos are what I saw as I was putting away the groceries

the little diving ducks are back

swimming and diving

in amongst the geese

who are so majestically

floating on the water

it started to rain so they left rather quickly to go who knows where

 maybe they just went around the corner to sit on the beach and wait it out

last night I practiced the

magic loop again

and ended up with

.

.

.

.

.

.

v

this

 

he 'as a new 'at

and now he thinks he's a merchant marine

I promise

right hand up

that this is the last time

you have to suffer the

snowpeople...

I swear

I do...

no, my fingers are

NOT

crossed!!!

see ya

.....

many moods....

so

 what do you do

......

while singing

egyptian freedom songs

messing about and wasting time

instead of cleaning your

pig-sty of a room

v

v

v

v

v

v

you play......and create

 the

many moods of a snow man

rakish

 

laid back

rogue-ish 

sweet and innocent

gangsta-ish

but she likes him

anyway

all ways

look

she gave him the bee

and my favourite with his head slightly to the side and and love in his eye!!!!!!!

so off I go

to do what needs to be done

......

how will I ever not be able to smile again

hope he made you smile!!!