Thought for the Day Fourth Edition

Love that one, Marie!

DP, I think it's because people make off with the TP. And the paper towels. And anything else that isn't bolted down.

Here's my thought for the day, found in an interesting article about seed saving, and preparing to help plants migrate to more favorable areas if we do experience significant climate change. They are banking thousands of native seeds, based on this premise:

Aldo Leopold’s maxim: ‘The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to keep all the pieces.’

Made me laugh, as it reminded me of my brother taking things apart to see how they worked, and then losing the pieces. I, on the other hand, drew pictures of where all the pieces went, and laid them all out in order, in the hopes that I could reassemble them before Mom found out. LOL

Here's the article, if anyone is interested:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/earth/10plant.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Angie

Hmmm, did that work??

Good Morning All. Another sunshiny day!!! Yippee!!!

Tuesday Thought for the Day:

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.

marie~

I think it's, "The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence; but, at least, you don't have to mow it."

Be well

(o_O)

Cat. I truly get the poem.
The rest of you, make me laugh, and make me think. Right now I am thinking.

Since aerodynamically it's impossible, why can bumblebee's fly?

Thank goodness for such impossibilities! The world be less wonderful without bumble bees and other improbable things. There would be less magic for us to share.

Walk In Beauty!
SW

Kwanjin - I snorted out loud when I read that one. Nice!

Is there another word for synonym?

Thanks, GardenSox. I did, too, when I found it. ^_^

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

Celia that was funny!!! I will have to remember that

DesertPirate, I actually tried to figure out what the other word was.

Thanks, Marie. I keep giggling over some of these.

Dribbling football - ROFL. I always hated it when people told me I could do ANYthing I wanted to. What balderdash! And what a great way to make a kid feel inadequate when they tried something totally out of their league.

They say 'Grow where you're planted' but camellias don't grow in the desert.

Imagination was given to Man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon

You do not quit when you are tired, you quit you are done. My father...

Oh, I like that one.

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.
-Linus van Pelt

ROTF!!!

Ooooh, skwinter, that is profound! I'll have to remind myself of that when I feel like quitting on a project!

Angie

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery,
by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
poet (1672-1719)

Good one Kwanjin!
skwinter, my stepdad taught us that one. Only we were also taught that the job ain't done till the tools have been cleaned up and put away. : - )
BookerC, thank you for the laugh. It came at a good time!
wcgypsy, thanks for that quote. It hit home. : - )

Whilst stuck in the Dr's office I had to read something and much to my surprise I found these gems to share with you all. (Yes, I wrote them down on my handy dandy notepad).

#1. "There is within self all healing that may be accomplished for the body." -- Edgar Cayce

#2. "A little experience often upsets a lot of theory." -- Cadmen

WIB,
SW

SW...amen to both....

Okay, where is everyone?
Must be some truth to that adage, "Make hay while the sun shines."
Guess I'll join you!
WIB,
SW

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light!

Quod cupio mecum est.

(o_O)

My Latin is desperately rusty----translation, please?

If it not going to affect you 5 years from now, do not let it get you down.

SW, I spent most of yesterday cleaning my garden area of the garage and my laundry room because I have been tired when I was "finished" and did not clean or put away my tools. It only took me two hours, which was amazing. Now I am on my way to take cutting off my geraniums for rooting. A new thing I got into because of the coleus forum. Of course, my ADD, ADHD, OCC and everything else went way overboard on the cuttings. No one is surprised.

sk, least of all me. I don't clean my tools unless they are paint brushes, or something like that. I don't clean my gardening tools after each use either because I work a bit then rest a bit. Then I forget what I was doing and go off on a tangent. : - )

ima, I like yours, when I think about it, it is so true. Blessed be!

Here's another one that meant a lot to me growing up (blame Heinlein).

Ad Astra!

Translation roughly is, To the Stars!

WIB!
SW

I believe it means, "What I want, I have." Let's see how rusty MY Latin is! LOL

Now that you tell me what they mean, those words do look familiar...LOL!

Right -- loosely, "Everything I desire I already have."

I am , deep down, a Bostonian.

Be well

(o_O)

and singing~

I think you missed the first part -- or the last.

It is Per aspera ad astra. or, backwards: Ad astra per aspera

Be well

(o_O)

Yup, flyboy, that would be me, getting things backwards again. Sigh. Thanks for the correction! : - )
I wish they still taught Latin when I went to school.

If wishes were wings, we'd all fly.

I just made it up to go with the others I know are out there somewhere . . .
WIB!
SW

I had 8 years of Latin & 8 years of French. Both are somewhat useful for crossword puzzles and that's about it. Now I'm taking an online Spanish class, as I think that could actually come in handy here in CA!

Boy, my Latin IS rusty. I came close, though. ^_^ How about this.

Ego sum domi per meus amicitia. I am at home with my friends.

My French got me about as far as "Je pense que vous etes fou" and "La plume de ma tante est sur la table". I do keep thinking about some classes in conversational French (as opposed to the constant conjugating of verbs that seemed to be the main thing I was taught years ago...lol) Why? Who knows.....
edited because I couldn't even remember that much!

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Pigeon, what on-line Spanish class are you using?

"I think that you are crazy"? LOL gypsy.