yes,
still searching for the link to that video and music. I came across this and had to share::
1. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity.
2. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
3.
Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
4.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
5. Psychiatrists
say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check the three people around
you, if they're OK, you're it.
6. Nothing in the known universe travels faster
than a bad check.
7. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a
unicorn.
8. It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in
rats.
9. It is better to pillage BEFORE you burn.
10. If you are given an
open-book exam, you will forget your book.
11. COROLLARY: If you are given a
take-home test, you will forget where you live.
12. The trouble with doing
something right the first time is that no one appreciates
how difficult it
was.
13. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as an
example to others.
14. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
15. The
average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the man can
see
better than he can think.
16. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little
or no influence on society.
17. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality
by moving from where you left them to
where you can't find them.
18. Law
of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly
distributed.
bucks county
farm field
Saturday, July 14, 2012
a blast from the past. May 2002
I have been looking for a specific video i watched many times in the not so distant past.. or maybe it was in the distant past. i spent an hour so far and while i found many video's that were similar, not the one with the particular music i wanted.
Still not daunted but slightly off the task at hand, i was searching through old saved e-mails when i came across this funny start to a day in May 2002.
enjoy!
"Well here it is Wednesday morning, the first day of May 2002!! Happy May friends! I think i mentioned that the starter went on my car. Hubby push started it from the state of Indiana to here, eastern PA, a total of at least 700 miles, probably more.. because the starter quit as he arrived in Indiana, (Indianapolis speedway?) on Saturday afternoon for a bike racing event.
He spent Saturday and Sunday going hither and yon (via push start) before the long trip home.
Today booboo bear ('85 Nissan stanza) goes to see Stan and brad,
the turnpike mechanic guys. Been at least 6 months since she was there, for a similar or related problem.
so why am i even bringing this up again??
imagine...
very foggy, cool, damp morning of 40 degrees, here on the ridge just above q-town.
Rush hour is pretty much under way here from 6;30 to 8;30. Long lines of cars traveling up hill, and down dale. Headlights on to cut the fog. 2 lane highway. 55 m.p.h. at least. Everyone keeping the peddle to the metal to avoid being stuck behind a school bus. Now, 7 a.m., trash cans lined up at the tops of some driveways. kids walking on the shoulder of the highway to assigned school bus stops.
Between the fog, and that early morning sun, burning through the fog....it is difficult to see what is going on up ahead.. and reaction time is definitely ....a little off. This is one of those mornings.. you hope people will slow down.
and at our house...
sigh.....
we are all assembled in the driveway. Going over hubby's plan to push start the car. We are going to push it UP the driveway to the highway.. and out onto the shoulder, and head west, toward town.
????????????
(at least he is not going to try to push it ACROSS the highway,
which.. if there was not so much traffic would be a wonderful down hill, and probably easy start.)
who is driving the garden tractor. who is steering the car. who is pushing. How to avoid the trash cans at the top of the driveway and the telephone poll and the traffic coming up over the hill.
Andrew is going to steer the car.. and i keep telling him to abort if he
feels it is unsafe.. (as if any part of pushing a car partly onto a busy highway,
on a blind hill is going to be safe.)
sigh....
with some work.. we get the car out onto the shoulder. Snow plow on the garden tractor is at the perfect height to.... caress the bumper for a good push. Hubby's engineering mind is ticking away.. as i point out the enormous traffic flow, the kids on the side of the road waiting for the bus..
the approaching bus..
sheesh.
hubby finally agrees...... maybe pushing it toward town is not the best idea..
We are going to have to push the car at least a 1/4 of a mile before the ridge ends, and falls off to the next little valley, the down hill we probably need to get up a little speed.
so we decide to see if we can aim the car toward the garage and push it DOWN the driveway.
of course.. first we have to push backwards on the shoulder, to the opposite side of the driveway...
so we push.. down it goes..
(the driveway is just about 80 ft? long.) slight slop. hubby pops the clutch.
nope..
2nd time.. almost catches but he is just about IN the garage and has to slam on the breaks.
so here we are at 7;15.. pushing the car back UP the driveway to try again.
(at least the school bus has come and gone.. (the bus ross gets))
Down the driveway the car sails for a second time. First time hubby pops the clutch,,,we see a puff of
exhaust. he engage the clutch again...the engine starts just as he is running out of space.
we had moved the other cars.. so he could ,at least, turn into a parking space.. a few more added feet for the run. instead of the garage or the garden tractor.
With a little coaxing the car keeps running.
second flurry of activity, while i write a note for ross' late arrival
at school. Andrew gets ready to drive, and hubby is brushing his teeth.
finally everyone has gone..and i can breathe a BIG sigh of relief.
15 minutes pass.. hubby is at the door.......'no bike lock'.
(because he is biking from the repair shop to work.)
anyway..
Ross made it to school.
Andrew is back in bed (works 10p.m. to 6a.m.)
Got a call from rich, so car is at the mechanics,
and he made it to work.
what a morning!"
Still not daunted but slightly off the task at hand, i was searching through old saved e-mails when i came across this funny start to a day in May 2002.
enjoy!
"Well here it is Wednesday morning, the first day of May 2002!! Happy May friends! I think i mentioned that the starter went on my car. Hubby push started it from the state of Indiana to here, eastern PA, a total of at least 700 miles, probably more.. because the starter quit as he arrived in Indiana, (Indianapolis speedway?) on Saturday afternoon for a bike racing event.
He spent Saturday and Sunday going hither and yon (via push start) before the long trip home.
Today booboo bear ('85 Nissan stanza) goes to see Stan and brad,
the turnpike mechanic guys. Been at least 6 months since she was there, for a similar or related problem.
so why am i even bringing this up again??
imagine...
very foggy, cool, damp morning of 40 degrees, here on the ridge just above q-town.
Rush hour is pretty much under way here from 6;30 to 8;30. Long lines of cars traveling up hill, and down dale. Headlights on to cut the fog. 2 lane highway. 55 m.p.h. at least. Everyone keeping the peddle to the metal to avoid being stuck behind a school bus. Now, 7 a.m., trash cans lined up at the tops of some driveways. kids walking on the shoulder of the highway to assigned school bus stops.
Between the fog, and that early morning sun, burning through the fog....it is difficult to see what is going on up ahead.. and reaction time is definitely ....a little off. This is one of those mornings.. you hope people will slow down.
and at our house...
sigh.....
we are all assembled in the driveway. Going over hubby's plan to push start the car. We are going to push it UP the driveway to the highway.. and out onto the shoulder, and head west, toward town.
????????????
(at least he is not going to try to push it ACROSS the highway,
which.. if there was not so much traffic would be a wonderful down hill, and probably easy start.)
who is driving the garden tractor. who is steering the car. who is pushing. How to avoid the trash cans at the top of the driveway and the telephone poll and the traffic coming up over the hill.
Andrew is going to steer the car.. and i keep telling him to abort if he
feels it is unsafe.. (as if any part of pushing a car partly onto a busy highway,
on a blind hill is going to be safe.)
sigh....
with some work.. we get the car out onto the shoulder. Snow plow on the garden tractor is at the perfect height to.... caress the bumper for a good push. Hubby's engineering mind is ticking away.. as i point out the enormous traffic flow, the kids on the side of the road waiting for the bus..
the approaching bus..
sheesh.
hubby finally agrees...... maybe pushing it toward town is not the best idea..
We are going to have to push the car at least a 1/4 of a mile before the ridge ends, and falls off to the next little valley, the down hill we probably need to get up a little speed.
so we decide to see if we can aim the car toward the garage and push it DOWN the driveway.
of course.. first we have to push backwards on the shoulder, to the opposite side of the driveway...
so we push.. down it goes..
(the driveway is just about 80 ft? long.) slight slop. hubby pops the clutch.
nope..
2nd time.. almost catches but he is just about IN the garage and has to slam on the breaks.
so here we are at 7;15.. pushing the car back UP the driveway to try again.
(at least the school bus has come and gone.. (the bus ross gets))
Down the driveway the car sails for a second time. First time hubby pops the clutch,,,we see a puff of
exhaust. he engage the clutch again...the engine starts just as he is running out of space.
we had moved the other cars.. so he could ,at least, turn into a parking space.. a few more added feet for the run. instead of the garage or the garden tractor.
With a little coaxing the car keeps running.
second flurry of activity, while i write a note for ross' late arrival
at school. Andrew gets ready to drive, and hubby is brushing his teeth.
finally everyone has gone..and i can breathe a BIG sigh of relief.
15 minutes pass.. hubby is at the door.......'no bike lock'.
(because he is biking from the repair shop to work.)
anyway..
Ross made it to school.
Andrew is back in bed (works 10p.m. to 6a.m.)
Got a call from rich, so car is at the mechanics,
and he made it to work.
what a morning!"
| ye old car. 1986 Nissan Stanza |
Thursday, July 5, 2012
summer lilies
I did not realize the number of different varieties of day lilies and Stella Doro lilies that i have planted over the years. . here are all but 3, which i will have to photograph when the flowers open again.
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