Monday, January 4, 2010

Heron country once again! And the fickle pickle was at it again!

Where do Great Blue Heron’s eat?
Anywhere they want to………..but here!
Fortunately, our netting, but not our cheesy pink plastic flamingoes saved our remaining fishies! That thing about heron’s being territorial I suppose does not have anything to do with fighting pink plastic flamingoes for their property or eateries, dinning facilities… you get the picture.
He has been here at least three times today, which is the first time in ages that we have seen him. Many fish have probably found warmer waters, and so he may very well be desperate.

Our cold snap is still snapping away, although tonight is the first night that doesn’t threaten to freeze, but tomorrow night may. It’s so nice to be at least prepared for the worst. I know, in reality who wants anything in life to be the worst? We sure don’t.

But as possibilities go, cold weather being colder, is not as bad as many other things that run through this hyper active brain stormer of mine. I have so much imagination I could put an imagineer (Disney guy) out of business! But my ideas are either way off track and many are not even close probabilities.
Some are dream based others may be some irrational fears, and others are just creative justifications, none are ever drug induced unless cholesterol or blood pressure meds cause hallucinations? Mind creations or ideas can be fascinating when they are not at all boring, and most of mine are not, boring that is.

Did I tell you I started my own greeting card business again, well not really a business, just manufacturing cards for family and friends no income involved, darn, the hard copy type (I still had a lot of card stock and envelopes left from years ago, ergo the cards don’t cost me anything and yet I search my clip art for PICS, and my logo is two feet! I know I call it: ‘Put my two feet in’, publishing, get it, a nosey-body sticking your two feet in; like putting your two cents in the personal business of people?) I send the cards out snail mail. I do know that the US Post Office is dying a slow death; we all, shop and pay our bills online. So I feel like I am doing a major service giving the guys and gals called postal workers something to deliver! And I still have quite a few forever stamps left… so why not?
And because of them I have no idea how much it is to mail a regular card these days, do you?

Since I mentioned my card publishing I thought I better tell on myself…remember how cold I thought my cousin was sending me notification of my uncle’s death by email, and so I felt an email note was a proper way to respond…I sort of decided I would send a hard copy of a more appropriate sympathy card and so I made one and sent it out today.
Of course mine are so much more personal than the store bought ones, but this time I was more sympathetic and tried to make him feel that he did all he could for his dad, which is true. He moved his dad nearby him when he felt that his dad wasn’t doing so well so far away, and I told him so. Any-who, who knows what will come of our relationship.
Right now it is fifty-fifty that it could go either way, only time will tell.

Well, on that revelation I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Which way will the war go?

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