Thought for the Day!

You should have stopped in...and you could have seen my fried garden ! I was cleaning up the carnage today.

The parrots are only here in the morning and just before the sun sets...and even then it's too much noise with them all squawking non-stop. They're trying to drive my old cat insane.

Whenever I get an attack of "earworms", it's always with some song I hate with a passion. A few weeks ago it was "Piece of my heart" by fingernails on a chalkboard Janis Joplin.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Well, besides 'The Cow Song' - the other one that bit me I actually like a lot. It's called 'Ragged Wood' by Fleet Foxes. Be careful if you dare to listen - it has an Appalachian ring to it and is really infectious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2T4Ox1gls

My least favorite earworm is "Wooly Bully". Lordy how I hated that song when it was on the charts. Why it gets into my head I don't know. But now that I've thought about it, it'll probably be stuck there for the next week. Someone on another forum was saying she calls up "Davey Crockett" to banish bad worms. Not sure that would be my choice if I actually thought about it, but it's better than Wooly Bully!!!

I'll swap your "Wooly Bully" for "Midnight At The Oasis"...that's another one that haunts me from time to time...

A shrink could have a field day with this !

Why is it always a song we can't stand? Last week for a brief diversion it was a Dolly Parton number.....
Fried stuff here too. Tables under 50% shadecloth had stuff on the east end fried 'cause I didn't have an overhang on that side when it went up to about 107 here...and that was morning sun.

Good morning everybody. THANKS A LOT MIKE!!! I thought I'd been 'earwormed' by Maria Muldaur for the last time, but NOOOO!!! you had to put her right there in my head again. Hopefully it won't last " 'til the evenin' ends".

Thought for the Day:
An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!'

ROFL! I'd call that a fool. Very unused word nowadays - even though there are numerous opportunities.

My DH loves "Midnight at the Oasis".....

One of my favorite quotes:
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up
because they’re looking for ideas”

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."

-- Bill Waterston, creator of "Calvin and Hobbs"

Well after the trip with the family to OK this summer, I'm not a big fan of alternative rock.
My least favorite song of all time, was Dreamweaver, but mainly because every time you turned on the radio, that song was playing!
My Elder Brother #2 (have 4 brothers), is a whistler. Drives his wife nuts because no matter what he starts whistling, it always turns into the Mexican Hat Dance. I wonder if that is part of the same thing or if it has it's own name?
In my experience, the only way to get rid of "Involuntary Music Imagery", is to replace it with another song. Eventually they go away on their own, but I guess it all depends on the song. The things you learn. I didn't know that John Lennon came up with that saying about life. I didn't know that it was from a song he wrote for his son until today.
wcgypsy, some day, I'll come visiting and you can play that song for me?
I relate to life through song, so I guess that I'm sort of used to it.
KC, which one do you consider to be unused word?
Knew that you were twisted ima, please do come sit by me, we have a lot to discuss! LOL!
Marie, most of my friends are of an age that we are pretending to enter our second childhood. ROTFLOL
They used to call me the eternal optimist, now I'm happy to be called eccentric, actually thrilled they know of the word and how to use it. Spelling it is another matter.
Keep 'em coming, I love this thread!
WIB,
SW

Sorry KC, we crossposted.
In my case, my knees would be brown, and I use a pad when kneeling, but I get the idea! LOL!
I loved Calvin & Hobbs. Sad when he retired the character.
WIB,
SW

Good morning all. Happy hump day!!!

Wednesday Thought for the Day:

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

LOL I Love that one Kathleen! I too am a Calvin and Hobbs fan!!!

Here is my quote or thought for the day:
If flying is so safe, why do they call an airport the terminal?

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. (Brendan Gill )

I love that one Marie. LOL!

Me, too !!!

This one just came through on an email and I had to add it here:

'Children may never remember what you said or what you did but they will never forget how you made them feel.'

Boy...there's an understatement !

Great one Kathleen!!

I've been collecting these things for years - both comic and serious. Used to write them in spiral notebook, so you can imagine when I started! Now I have a little program that allows me to 'steal' them from the 'net, and I add them manually if I find them in a book. Then I can post them in my emails when I want to. Some things are just so funny, meaningful, snarky, or profound they deserve repeating.

My brain activity has little resemblance to a train of thought. It's more like a derailment.

Good way to start the day! : - )
One of my favorites is:

Keep your children long on hugs, and short on pocket money!
R. A. Heinlein

Think about it.

WIB,
SW

Brilliant! I wish had a memory to hold these things - I just have to write them down.

Marie, my DH would describe me in exactly that way - I'm always going off on tangents and he loses his way trying to follow! LOL

There are a few I keep in my memory. Probably my favorite or at least my most often repeated is this one:

Diplomacy- The art of being able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

DP..that's BRILLIANT !!!

Most guys like that one, Mike. The reaction from women isn't as positive and I can't really explain that. It's not sexist or anything.

DP, I loved it. I am a female, at least I was the last time I checked. Then again, I learned how to tell people to butt out and mind their own beeswax tactfully by watching soap operas. I hate soap operas. I have much better things to do with my time and mind, but I did learn how to tell people to go to heck, and most of them come away feeling it was a positive experience. Most people just want to know that you hear them and acknowledge what they said. Doesn't mean you have to agree.
I happen to love the books written by Heinlein, and some of them I do remember. This one isn't all that special, but I like it.
"Small change can often be found in seat cushions."

My chiropractor had me LOL, we were talking about the Beatles. (He's from Britain, but is now a US Citizen). Seems he actually saw the Beatles play way long ago, back when they were first starting out with their original drummer. At that time they played in an underground arched former storage area turned into a club called the Cavern. He never thought they'd make it because they sounded awful. He was surprised when they hit it big.
Can't wait to see what you come up with for tomorrow!
WIB!
SW

Good morning all. Hope you have a beautiful Thursday. And to the other two football fans out there, Happy opening day.

Thursday Thought for the Day:

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

I know this is not really part of the "thought" thread but I think it's important to warn as many people as I can. There is a disease that seems to be infecting many of my friends. Please be aware of the possibility of contracting it via nurseries and even gardening websites.

CHAD - 'Compulsive Horticultural Acquisition Disorder'. Typical symptoms are 1.) impulse buying of any new plant encountered, 2.) buying it without having even the vaguest idea of where you are going to plant it, 3.) putting new plants in willy-nilly into the most convenient, available spot in the garden, 4.) eventually filling every available empty space, resulting in unmanageable overcrowding, and 5.) losing the lawn to 'bed creep', as beds are expanded in an attempt to relieve the overcrowding, while making space for new acquisitions. Other symptoms may include 'new plant envy', 'gardener's resentment', financial exhaustion, and a number of specific addictive behaviors, including hostaholicism, hemeroholicism, etc. Though not discussed, it appears that eventual loss of bladder and bowel control may presage the onset of insanity. No cure was offered.

I've been in rehab for the past 6 months...even able to go to nurseries 5 times without buying a single plant. The Salvia Sale is this weekend at Fullerton Arboretum and I'm weakening, anyone know of a CHAD chapter locally?

DP I LOVE that one. Do you mind if I share it?

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

CHAD----nice to have a name for my affliction.

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde

Good one Janet! I know some of both of course.


Absolutely, please share Marie. Everyone should be warned. I've also heard that it seems to be spreading vociferously at these remote gatherings known as "round-ups". Evidently the sufferers come together at these gatherings and share their "fix" with each other as many have multiple addictions.

Is there a vaccine? Or do we want to know...

No known cure. You die with it and then your "friends" steal the potted flowers from the mortuary. (those same friends are quite good about bringing cut flowers to your grave though)

Actually, I think I might be a carrier.....

Hmm no vaccine, no cure and I am still coming to the round up in California. I must have a serious case

Coughing and laughing like crazy, what a great way to start the day.
I definitely have CHAD. (Another definition for chad, and it's not referring to elections!) I didn't even make it to the RU and I'm already giving away plants! Receiving some too. : - )
I was proud of myself yesterday. I saw a beautiful potted mum, and I didn't buy it. Man oh man, talk about restraint! It was hard to walk away from it.
I don't think that taking a potted plant from a grave site is a bad thing, especially if you don't want it to join the deceased. It's nice to get cut flowers! Besides the plant will always remind them of the person it came from. That's a good thing!
I am definitely an orchidoholic. I'll find a place, for them. I noticed I was and am contemplating enlarging a bed of succulents, and plopping some others in as well. No lawn there, but I have ideas! Nothing I'd like better than to get rid of DH's lawn (grass allergies), but only creeping out around the electric meter to hide the ugly thing that pokes out of the lawn.
How about this one DP, goes back to your thought of the day.

It takes two people to have a conversation. But one of them has to listen.
(I heard this from an Indian Elder.)

Loved your saying ima. I too know some of both. I wonder where if people are happy to see me, or just happy to see me go? Hmm. Must ponder that one.

Marie, I am also pondering teflon. I know that there is some kind of process to applying the teflon, but can't remember how it is done. Good question. It'll be stuck in my head all day. Rather have a song.

"Good morning starshine, the earth says hello, you twinkle above us, we twinkle below."
I definitely have IMI too!
Does anyone remember the title to that one, or where it came from? It's been bugging me.
Thanks for the laughs!
WIB,
SW