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I have information that may lead to the actual capture of a troll.
Are there rewards offered, substantial enough to keep me in fine standing in a fairy tail kingdom such as this. If you want the info You can find me at the local Inn sitting at the darkest corner grabbing comely barmaids and slapping Wenches

I've just had a message on cs with a skype address. She wants a naked chat on Skype. What on earth makes a person do/ask for such a chat. I my add that the person as been blocked

so I thought I would share, two different styles working together.

I wandered lonely on a bleak high hill,
but not as lonely as a Lakeland cloud.
Nor did I see a single daffodil,
despite my reading Wordsworth out aloud.

I love that Bob Ross is streaming on one of the video streaming deals. He was just the most soothing and uplifting guy. We need more Bobs in this world. Also...I'm completely jealous of his prowess in mixing paint colors.

Bob Ross quotes:

“There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
“We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”
“I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.”
“You too can paint almighty pictures.”
“No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”
“Don’t forget to make all these little things individuals — all of them special in their own way.”
“Find freedom on this canvas.”
“It’s so important to do something every day that will make you happy.”
“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”
“Make love to the canvas.”
“ will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart.”
“We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.”
“We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.”
“That’s a crooked tree. We’ll send him to Washington.”
“Every day is a good day when you paint.”
“I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture.”
“We tell people sometimes: We’re like drug dealers, come into town and get everybody absolutely addicted to painting. It doesn’t take much to get you addicted.”
“They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers — just to upset the critics.”
“Gotta give him a friend. Like I always say, ‘Everyone needs a friend.’”
“See how it fades right into nothing. That’s just what you’re looking for.”
“If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.”
“Water’s like me. It’s lazy. Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things.”
“In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage.”
“Don’t forget to tell these special people in your life just how special they are to you.”
“Didn’t you know you had that much power? You can move mountains. You can do anything.”
“I like to beat the brush.”
“Just let go — and fall like a little waterfall.”
“Talk to the tree, make friends with it.”
“I taught my son to paint mountains like these, and guess what? Now he paints the best darn mountains in the industry.”
“I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the ‘Mona Lisa’ with a two-inch brush.”
“Be so very light. Be a gentle whisper.”
“Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel’s wing.”
“You need the dark in order to show the light.”
“You can do anything you want to do. This is your world.”
“You have to allow the paint to break to make it beautiful.”
“However you think it should be, that’s exactly how it should be.”
“In nature, dead trees are just as normal as live trees.”
“You can have anything you want in the world — once you help everyone around you get what they want.”
“If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.”
“This is happy place; little squirrels live here and play.”
“That’s where the crows will sit. But we’ll have to put an elevator to put them up there because they can’t fly, but they don’t know that, so they still try.”
“Remember how free clouds are. They just lay around in the sky all day long.”
“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
“If we’re going to have animals around we all have to be concerned about them and take care of them.”
“You can do anything here — the only prerequisite is that it makes you happy.”
“Go out on a limb — that’s where the fruit is.”
“Isn’t it fantastic that you can change your mind and create all these happy things?”
“Anytime you learn, you gain.”
“It’s life. It’s interesting. It’s fun.”

Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds..
A.E.

Are we in connection with your spirit every-day. But then what are Spirits.
Do animals have a spirit,and what about the Trees do thay have a Spirit

Or could it be that spirits are an invention of the imagination..

What is your opinion?




We are now in season of lent...

Since I've moved to my new home I have not been able to find a job. So I have had to depend on a food bank. No big deal. God supplied me with food and I am reciprocating His good work and favor with doing my part at the food bank as a volunteer.

I am hard of hearing and I don't multi-task too well so when I went to donate my time I volunteered to lug the wagon of food to the recipients car and unload it for them. I have hearing aids I don't like to use them because in a dusty warehouse setting the cost of the hearing aids use ($8000) is prohibitive.

Since the volunteer aspect (It's transient help because most are offenders and they are doing community service) comes into play. The supervisor, extremely patient, has to finish up a job sometimes left undone. And the workload gets heavy on the regular and dependable. Therefor, I have made an effort to scope things out to see what can be done to alleviate unnecessary work. And this is the crux of my blog!

There are many older people unable to come to the food bank so we deliver food to them on Saturday's. This one wonderful woman heads that up. The first thing she needs are boxes clean enough to pack with the food. I noticed that I have time at certain times of the day so I volunteered to prepare these boxes. They contain junk that needs to be discarded so I do that and line them up in the manner she prefers to have them.

I started doing that yesterday. When I was relieved of my "lugging" duties I informed the lady, Sylvia, that takes the client info and disburses the food where I would be. I said to her, "I will be in back if you need me". Unfortunately this woman is also the kind of person that answers a question with a question. But since I didn't ask a question her curiosity came in and asked me what I was going to do. When I told her she, in her normal go to the max making conclusions, said, "Does Christie know what your doing?" and "Does Charles know what your doing?" and on and on like I'm some kind of stupid idiot. In addition, it was none of her business. Christie and I got together and we planned a strategy. I looked at her and just said, "You know where you can find me if you need me" and I simply ignored her line of questioning.

Now, it got worse. For one hour I cleaned the boxes to Christie's specs! It suddenly occurred to me I had stacked the boxes on the ground (a Federal guideline No-No in the food handling). So I asked this lady Rikki if the boxes needed to be elevated on pallets. She too answers questions with questions. She began riddling me with questions as to why I was what I was doing. I mean, she was walking around the entire hour I was assembling the boxes and it didn't occur to her to ask me what I was doing? I explained and I was finally able to pry out of her a simple answer.

THEN!! This guy, Jimmy, that walks around mumbling to himself comes over and he starts talking to Rikki about the box stack I was making. I didn't care what he asked because she answered him and it appeared that he knew what was going on. But I was wrong. When Christie came to see the operation she caught Jimmy loading up her boxes up on his truck. She told him to stop, she climbed up into the back of the truck and unloaded them. Jimmy just walked around in his usual weird manner mumbling to himself.

I was exasperated when I left for the day. BUT!!! Then when I arrived this morning I was hit with another snag. I calmly told the person I was up to my neck in hogwash and was leaving.

I should have left yesterday when all this "problem" was brewing. I am now at the library cooling off and getting away from the pain in the neck over a small job swerving into a major hassle!

Whew!! Thanks to Jesus for the relief!

Endless sea and huge mountains covered hard snow....
- An upliftingly beautiful short video - about the heroic struggle of a little bearcub for the survival...