Thought for the Day Fourth Edition

I was offered a job as a consultant on a residential crew with a very large landscape group.
First, I did not want a day to day obligation and my first fear is I did not speak Spanish I would not be effective communicating with the crew. Everything I do is for free and just for fun. I am very talented but I just want to do it for free. If I am tired, I do not need to show up. If I went to work for the large landscaper, I would be working 10 hours a day and 6 days a week. I would be making mega bucks but right now I do not need or want that . My DH and I enjoy getting up when we want to and getting what we want for our breakfast drink. Mine is hot Chocolate. DH is coffee.
After an hour up we start moving toward our separate projects. Mine is not going to work from 6am to 3pm. Hopefully we will never need me to take this job....But if I do, I will enjoy it and kick everyone's butt. LOL.

sk, the best thing about consulting is that you can set your terms. I've been doing a little freelancing since I retired, and that's how I'm handling it. If they want you, they'll accommodate you.

doss, I'm taking the class thru Gavilan College. I started with some website design classes, which were great. I've been wanting to learn Spanish (I speak a wee bit, but not enough to have a conversation) and when I saw they had it online, I decided to alternate it with the web classes. All of the online classes I've taken are really well-designed. Classes are 6 weeks; lessons are released twice a week, and there's a quiz for each lesson & a final at the end of the last one. Each lesson has a discussion area where you can ask questions or answer other students' questions. The teacher or TA responds to each question within about 24 hours. You can download each lesson and keep it for future reference (which has been really handy with the website design material.) The flexibility of being able to work on it at my convenience & without having to GO someplace is fantastic! My fellow website design students were from all over the country, all walks of life, and registered through all kinds of different colleges. For the Spanish, an audio file for each vocabulary word lets you hear how it's supposed to be pronounced. Lots of great classes available!! http://gavilan.augusoft.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=1010

I've been out of town for a few days..(since the 11th) Arizona can be cold this time of year, depending on what part of it you're in. Went to east central AZ not too far from the New Mexico border. We're looking at some land in Navajo and Apache Counties. Found 20 acres with a well near Snowflake for 40 thousand dollars.

I certainly enjoyed catching up on the thread. You guys crack me up.

Hope you're all having a wonderful Sunday Morning. Good day to you.

Sunday Thought for the Day:

Why do psychics need to ask your name??

Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur

translation: Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.

My favorite if you are a jerk, "You DO NOT want to mess with me".

Glad you are back DP. You were missed. The kitten, Buddy Holly you gave us cracks us up! He played with himself for 15 minutes attacking himself in the mirror. He is a blessing! : - )

Thanks for that Link ima. I never wanted to graduate from college, because I figured that the best thing about being alive was learning new things (feeding the "elephants child").

I always wanted to stay at home and tend my own garden, sleep late or get up early, feed the "elephants child". Be careful what you wish for, you may get it, at the cost of other things you value.

sk, I can't start the day properly without my hot chocolate either.

WIB,
SW

I second that notion!
WIB!
SW

Does it goes for Italian, too?

Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate

(=^_^=)

I love that they offer digital photography as one of the online classes. I'm thinking about taking that one....I could use some pointers...LOL!

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All gardeners know better than other gardeners - Chinese Proverb

Thanks imapigeon. I might just do that in the new year. I would also like to take a webdesign class.

Don't know flyboy, sounds like Italian to me. (I just had to do it!)
WIB,
SW

Why do people who know the least know it the loudest? Unknown

(This is for me. I get louder when I think I'm right and louder still if I know I'm wrong.)

We had freezing temperatures last night. Went from 70s to freezing in 4 days.
"All a green thumb is a whole bunch of hard work". I just made that up.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

(a good one to pass on to young sons and grandsons)

DesertPirate, I loved that. Sorry do not have anything to add.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Weeds are nature's graffiti

Hump day!! Happy Wednesday everybody!

Wednesday Thought for the Day:

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.


(I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.)

LOL And cops are a little harder to concealed-carry. ;)

Thanks for the chuckle. I needed that.

Angie

I'm loving these today!!! LOL

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Good one Celia!!!

Commitment is never an act of moderation. ~ Kenneth G. Mills

How very true!

Some of us get that more than others!

Honey, I will be finished gardening in a minute.
How many times have you said that?

LOL Goes right along with, "Honey, can you help me with this? It will only take a minute. . ."

You have the rest of your life to solve your problems.
How long you live depends on how well you do it.

Good Thursday Morning to everyone!!

Thursday Thought for the Day:

You can't have everything....where would you put it?

It would also make it hard for people to give you gifts, if you already had it all.

You always have one more minute. It's up to you if you want to use it.

I have 2 for today and they both have the same subject. I get so tired of people frowning and being mean when there's no good reason.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. Author Unknown

I am so glad to be home. Where they don't want me to give them almost $12/day for the use of the internet at their Resort. We should have checked into Motel 6 and gotten it for free.
I missed you guys!

"There is no place like home", said Dorothy three times, whilst clicking the heels of her ruby slippers.
From the movie, "The Wizard of Oz".
She was right.
WIB,
SW

kwan,
You are always a ray of sunshine on a bleak day. I smile at people just to see if I can get them to smile back.
WIB,
SW

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There, is that enough smiles for all of you?

Reminds me of a Peanuts poster my dad used to have up in his study. It was of Snoopy, and said, "Smile. It makes people wonder what you're up to."

Angie

Kwan, BC, You all started my day with a smile and you know what? I got the warm fuzzies. : - )

"God respects me when I work, but He Loves me when I sing."
Rabindranath Tagore

Love that one, BC.

Walk In Beauty!
SingingWolf

Good Morning All...

Sunday Thought for the Day;

This smile theme is contagious, as it should be....
here are a couple more

Smile - it increases your face value.

Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa

Good ones DP!

Flowers are God's way of smiling.

Pop or Pat Erickson used to tell me that.

WIB,
SW

This one is just weird, but I read it and have to share it....

We are all brothers under the skin and I, for one, am willing to skin humanity to prove it....Ayn Rand