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Morning Dew...
I'm in Miami and Friday is garbage day. The handyman I hired last week filled the can with construction materials (instead of the 55 gallon bags I left for him) so I had to roll the can to the front for pickup.
I'm only wearing flip-flops right now... not my normal dress code and my feet are wet from the morning dew. Yuck!
Plans today are to finish pressure washing the roof, wood fascia and eaves in preparation for painting tomorrow.
Right now, I'm waiting for the aspirin to kick in before getting started...
In the mean time I'll wash my feet and flip-flops before I put on work shoes!
Morning dew...
I'm only wearing flip-flops right now... not my normal dress code and my feet are wet from the morning dew. Yuck!
Plans today are to finish pressure washing the roof, wood fascia and eaves in preparation for painting tomorrow.
Right now, I'm waiting for the aspirin to kick in before getting started...
In the mean time I'll wash my feet and flip-flops before I put on work shoes!
Morning dew...
Best wishes for you
Wish your life is clear and bright, and do what you want to do , and love the person you love!
we talk too much
oh, not here on CS. Generally.
Money may be the root of all evil but it is only when we talk about it that people get really het up. If you don't know, you can't get annoyed.
To understand all is to forgive all - but we don't want to understand all. We want to believe what we believe, and talk others into our beliefs, and to get very angry indeed when the others won't listen, or persist in arguing.
I live now in a country where I don't yet speak the language. It's surprisingly peaceful. By the time I had lived this long - 3 months - in Scotland I was caught up in several separate long-running feuds in the neighbourhood and nervously trying to avoid taking sides, being ordered to join things like Home Watch, and backing away at speed from politically-indignant individuals with multiple opinions.
Here, no-one tries to talk to me about politics or issues. I greet people, remark how cold it is, we go on our way smiling. My Spanish builders have given up repeating themselves endlessly in the hope I will suddenly start understanding
and instead we get by on a handful of words and a lot of vigorous mime. Ditto when I look up the Spanish phrase I need and go to the DIY shop on the corner. The very voluble duenna in my street who grabs everyone who passes and talks at them for 20 minutes just nods, smiles and pats my dog (which she calls wa-wa).
My neighbour speaks several languages and translates when mime is simply not enough, but for the rest no feelings are offended by things said, because there is not enough vocabulary to offend.
I am beginning to think I should never learn Spanish. I like this peace and quiet!
We talk too much.
Money may be the root of all evil but it is only when we talk about it that people get really het up. If you don't know, you can't get annoyed.
To understand all is to forgive all - but we don't want to understand all. We want to believe what we believe, and talk others into our beliefs, and to get very angry indeed when the others won't listen, or persist in arguing.
I live now in a country where I don't yet speak the language. It's surprisingly peaceful. By the time I had lived this long - 3 months - in Scotland I was caught up in several separate long-running feuds in the neighbourhood and nervously trying to avoid taking sides, being ordered to join things like Home Watch, and backing away at speed from politically-indignant individuals with multiple opinions.
Here, no-one tries to talk to me about politics or issues. I greet people, remark how cold it is, we go on our way smiling. My Spanish builders have given up repeating themselves endlessly in the hope I will suddenly start understanding
and instead we get by on a handful of words and a lot of vigorous mime. Ditto when I look up the Spanish phrase I need and go to the DIY shop on the corner. The very voluble duenna in my street who grabs everyone who passes and talks at them for 20 minutes just nods, smiles and pats my dog (which she calls wa-wa). My neighbour speaks several languages and translates when mime is simply not enough, but for the rest no feelings are offended by things said, because there is not enough vocabulary to offend.
I am beginning to think I should never learn Spanish. I like this peace and quiet!
We talk too much.
Young Love!
I like coming to the library to use their computers and while doing so I listen to Y**T*** music. My genre is the R&B Soul music.
The oldies play and I look back in memory to the songs and some bring back real profound memories of a love I once had.
I remember crying my eyes out after Priscilla broke up with me and the song that was popular at that time. "Tears On My Pillow". Ha ha ha!!! I was so stupidly immature over that. My ex-best friend Pete stole her from me after I stole her from him. They were divorced in later years and I wonder where I would be of she had married me. I think that I would have been divorced from her too!
The music makes it's rounds and I remember the parties I played at with L'il Charlie and the Royal Mixtures. Songs like "Long Train Running" and the Los Angeles Police Officer whose wife would flirt with me because we played a lot of cop parties. Two bad things about this scenario. They lived down the street from me. And at the time he was the SWAT guy that was the sharp shooter. YABOS!!!! Even though I was actively playing here and there with babes that was definitely too close to home.
Then "Cocaine" plays and I remember my buddy Dakota crying in his sick bed when I brought him a radio to the rest home he was living at. For Dakota it was one too many babes, too much cocaine, too much liquor, too much fist fighting and just too much .... just name it and Dakota did it!!! Dakota was crying about his high school prom and that song was played over and over by the band!
I hear "Sabor a Mi" and I remember playing with Joe Alvarez and the Red Coats. The times he would want me to sing a song and he'd hand me his mic. I finally had to buy my own because Joe had horrendous breath that stunk his mic to high smells. Joe would sing with the mic right at his mouth and the sound system was bunk so his voice would come out staticky and garbled. In doing my songs I would keep a distance from the mic and that worked perfectly. Joe would ask why I sounded better and Paul the sax player would tell him stand away. Joe would answer, "but that's the way Frank Sinatra does it"!! Paul would retort, "How does Micky Rooney do it"!!! We'd choke laughing and laughing.
Joe's dad would get crazily drunk and by 11 pm he would be making the band sound like blazes. In the old days the piano player played a real piano. So all Joe's dad would take to the gig was a cushion to relieve his sore buns from sitting on the piano bench. When he'd get drunk he would forget his cushion and the next time we played that hall he would find it and rejoice like it was a wallet full of cash he had lost!
Rufus Thomas comes on with "Walking the Dog" and it immediately reminds me of the bar girl at "El Tentacion" bar that would get down and crawl around like a dog. That band was "Sabu". If your old enough to remember there were films about a young boy that lived in a jungle named Sabu. Our leader looked like Sabu so he was named that moniker!
Then for some dang reason I wonder about my personal feelings and the songs that "seemed" to have carved my outlook on life and love. I think I was too much into the lyrics and the dreams those lyrics created. I think how foolish I was about life. But I think music pretty much forms a young persons images of love so I wasn't so different after all.
Tonite I will have a beer and celebrate music and all the songs I love to hear over and over again!!!
The oldies play and I look back in memory to the songs and some bring back real profound memories of a love I once had.
I remember crying my eyes out after Priscilla broke up with me and the song that was popular at that time. "Tears On My Pillow". Ha ha ha!!! I was so stupidly immature over that. My ex-best friend Pete stole her from me after I stole her from him. They were divorced in later years and I wonder where I would be of she had married me. I think that I would have been divorced from her too!
The music makes it's rounds and I remember the parties I played at with L'il Charlie and the Royal Mixtures. Songs like "Long Train Running" and the Los Angeles Police Officer whose wife would flirt with me because we played a lot of cop parties. Two bad things about this scenario. They lived down the street from me. And at the time he was the SWAT guy that was the sharp shooter. YABOS!!!! Even though I was actively playing here and there with babes that was definitely too close to home.
Then "Cocaine" plays and I remember my buddy Dakota crying in his sick bed when I brought him a radio to the rest home he was living at. For Dakota it was one too many babes, too much cocaine, too much liquor, too much fist fighting and just too much .... just name it and Dakota did it!!! Dakota was crying about his high school prom and that song was played over and over by the band!
I hear "Sabor a Mi" and I remember playing with Joe Alvarez and the Red Coats. The times he would want me to sing a song and he'd hand me his mic. I finally had to buy my own because Joe had horrendous breath that stunk his mic to high smells. Joe would sing with the mic right at his mouth and the sound system was bunk so his voice would come out staticky and garbled. In doing my songs I would keep a distance from the mic and that worked perfectly. Joe would ask why I sounded better and Paul the sax player would tell him stand away. Joe would answer, "but that's the way Frank Sinatra does it"!! Paul would retort, "How does Micky Rooney do it"!!! We'd choke laughing and laughing.
Joe's dad would get crazily drunk and by 11 pm he would be making the band sound like blazes. In the old days the piano player played a real piano. So all Joe's dad would take to the gig was a cushion to relieve his sore buns from sitting on the piano bench. When he'd get drunk he would forget his cushion and the next time we played that hall he would find it and rejoice like it was a wallet full of cash he had lost!
Rufus Thomas comes on with "Walking the Dog" and it immediately reminds me of the bar girl at "El Tentacion" bar that would get down and crawl around like a dog. That band was "Sabu". If your old enough to remember there were films about a young boy that lived in a jungle named Sabu. Our leader looked like Sabu so he was named that moniker!
Then for some dang reason I wonder about my personal feelings and the songs that "seemed" to have carved my outlook on life and love. I think I was too much into the lyrics and the dreams those lyrics created. I think how foolish I was about life. But I think music pretty much forms a young persons images of love so I wasn't so different after all.
Tonite I will have a beer and celebrate music and all the songs I love to hear over and over again!!!
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May...
May I start a new month with you?
I submitted my quarterly corporate tax returns yesterday... before the deadline.
Corporate and personal taxes are on extension.
Nothing new.
I submitted my quarterly corporate tax returns yesterday... before the deadline.
Corporate and personal taxes are on extension.
Nothing new.
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Back On The Blok
Greetings my friends. Its been a long time,
My days are long so there is not much time for the blog
yet some times I do read the blogs just to see what is happening..
Today I have a free day or a free morning ,this afternoon I would like todo some gardening in my little garden if it does not rain today..
Hope you all enjoying the summer going to the beach having a picnic, or having a barbece party,
Last Saturday I had a little party we had margarita cocktails..
Well where ever you are take the time to enjoy life
and Walk Good..
My days are long so there is not much time for the blog
yet some times I do read the blogs just to see what is happening..
Today I have a free day or a free morning ,this afternoon I would like todo some gardening in my little garden if it does not rain today..
Hope you all enjoying the summer going to the beach having a picnic, or having a barbece party,
Last Saturday I had a little party we had margarita cocktails..
Well where ever you are take the time to enjoy life
and Walk Good..
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Money saving tips
Flushing the toilet:
People in desert regions must be appalled that in the west we use drinking water to flush a toilet. Dirty dish water and bath water works just as well. All you need is a regular size bucket filled to about 2" from the top to do the trick. Make sure the water level in the bowl is at the normal height, not down low after a prior bucket flush or it wont work. Next, DUMP the water into the bowl, don't pour it in or it wont work. You have to raise the water level up fast. That's how toilets work.
Milk:
It's perfectly alright to freeze milk. It's not quite as good as milk that hasn't been frozen but for coffee or cereal you wont know the difference. I have been freezing milk for years. I have 2-32 oz. yogurt containers of milk in my freezer right now. The energy spent freezing the milk will be reclaimed when you put the frozen container in the fridge as it melts back to a liquid.
Washing dishes:
Hand washing uses less water and electricity if it's only you and maybe 1 other person, If you have a large family and generate a lot of dirty dishes a dish washer is probably a better choice. If you're really creative you might want to rig up a way of catching the water from the dish washer to flush the toilet but this is kind of extreme and can create a big water mess if you aren't careful. A washing machine is another source of a huge amount of flush water but this is even more dangerous than a dish washer due to the large amount of water and the speed a washing machine pumps out the wash/rinse water.
Drying clothes:
Use a clothes line, with pulleys from the back door or window. Not the kind out in the backyard where you have to carry a laundry basket full of wet clothes down a flight of stairs and walk to the clothes line. That may be "country" but it's a lot more work than a pulley system used by city folks. Just imagine if you lived on the 5th floor of an apartment building and you didn't even have a back yard. I grew up in New York city in a row of 5 buildings which had 40 families and no one had a clothes dryer. Most didn't even have a washing machine. Clothes were washed in the kitchen sink by hand.
Soda:
About 2 weeks ago I happen to be at a nearby convenience store when I looked at the little soda cooler near the checkout. I was so shocked that I decided to snap a picture of it. Are people so conditioned to fork over almost 2 bucks ($1.97 with 5% sales tax) for a 20 OZ bottle of soda? I buy Sams Club Cola at Walmart, a 2 litre (68 OZ) bottle costs 65 cents tax included. You can fill 3, 20 OZ bottles and have a cup left over. The final cost works out to 19 cents for that $1.97 bottle of soda. I have several empty soda bottles and it's no big deal to fill 3 of them from a 2L bottle of soda. What would you rather pay, 2 dollars or 2 dimes?
People in desert regions must be appalled that in the west we use drinking water to flush a toilet. Dirty dish water and bath water works just as well. All you need is a regular size bucket filled to about 2" from the top to do the trick. Make sure the water level in the bowl is at the normal height, not down low after a prior bucket flush or it wont work. Next, DUMP the water into the bowl, don't pour it in or it wont work. You have to raise the water level up fast. That's how toilets work.
Milk:
It's perfectly alright to freeze milk. It's not quite as good as milk that hasn't been frozen but for coffee or cereal you wont know the difference. I have been freezing milk for years. I have 2-32 oz. yogurt containers of milk in my freezer right now. The energy spent freezing the milk will be reclaimed when you put the frozen container in the fridge as it melts back to a liquid.
Washing dishes:
Hand washing uses less water and electricity if it's only you and maybe 1 other person, If you have a large family and generate a lot of dirty dishes a dish washer is probably a better choice. If you're really creative you might want to rig up a way of catching the water from the dish washer to flush the toilet but this is kind of extreme and can create a big water mess if you aren't careful. A washing machine is another source of a huge amount of flush water but this is even more dangerous than a dish washer due to the large amount of water and the speed a washing machine pumps out the wash/rinse water.
Drying clothes:
Use a clothes line, with pulleys from the back door or window. Not the kind out in the backyard where you have to carry a laundry basket full of wet clothes down a flight of stairs and walk to the clothes line. That may be "country" but it's a lot more work than a pulley system used by city folks. Just imagine if you lived on the 5th floor of an apartment building and you didn't even have a back yard. I grew up in New York city in a row of 5 buildings which had 40 families and no one had a clothes dryer. Most didn't even have a washing machine. Clothes were washed in the kitchen sink by hand.
Soda:
About 2 weeks ago I happen to be at a nearby convenience store when I looked at the little soda cooler near the checkout. I was so shocked that I decided to snap a picture of it. Are people so conditioned to fork over almost 2 bucks ($1.97 with 5% sales tax) for a 20 OZ bottle of soda? I buy Sams Club Cola at Walmart, a 2 litre (68 OZ) bottle costs 65 cents tax included. You can fill 3, 20 OZ bottles and have a cup left over. The final cost works out to 19 cents for that $1.97 bottle of soda. I have several empty soda bottles and it's no big deal to fill 3 of them from a 2L bottle of soda. What would you rather pay, 2 dollars or 2 dimes?
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