Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
I hope that everyone who had a celebration today...
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Knowing that you live in an area of your country that...
Friday, March 29, 2013
Churning, burning, tummy turning....
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Just when you think all is well...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Chatting away most all of the day...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Cold makes things shrink!
Monday, March 25, 2013
It appears that once again I have some pictures...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Pictures once again of a fun filled day!
Our day begun with a stop first up to north county to get gas at 3.66.9 a gallon at the Sam’s Club and Hubby also went inside for our bargain priced coffee and extra virgin olive oil both in large economy sizes!
Mostly that’s what we get there as well as paper goods when need be, but right now we are well stocked.
Oh that wasn’t the fun part really, since I waited in the car reading an outdated Waterline paper, from January while listening to the radio, see I can still multi-task, ha! Hubby should really clean out the car, but this time at least I had something to keep me busy while I waited the whole twenty minutes he took in there.
Next stop was for lunch since it was a bit of drizzle and so we decided to eat inside instead of at the park where the Ponce Deleon Day was going on… oh the restaurant is actually at Laishley Park though too so we did not have to move the car, although we did not have a handicap space the car next to us was far enough a way for Hubby to get my black beauty chariot alongside my door for me to hop in. The place was busy except in this one room, which was the only one left with low tables and so we asked to sit there, it was quite private until we were ready to leave and a large group, from perhaps a church came in or a family of about thirty people all different ages.
We were done anyway, and they were quite boisterous, but that was due to the extreme of the quiet we had, had before they arrived.
The Next stop was Hubby wheeling me over to the park where the celebration was and as usual a picture is worth a thousand words so the next few shall speak for themselves… After we decided to go on another drive to another park that is actually called Ponce Deleon Park where the below wild life center is that helps injured and abandoned birds and animals and tries to rehabilitate them and if not they have an always home there.
The birds that took part in those candid shots were first a night heron, a great blue heron, pelicans and lastly a sandhill crane! It was difficult choosing the right pictures between Hubby and I we took twenty seven just for today’s outing!
On that note of hopefully an interesting one, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Having a place to discuss how we feel about anything ...
Friday, March 22, 2013
Extreme violence all over the news and then there is too much...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
No sleep... but...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Drizzle, grizzle, boil and sizzle, allow to twizzle, and then let fizzle...repeat.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Everytime I have a baddy I seem to forget...
Monday, March 18, 2013
Days are good and days are not so good and some...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Kiss Me! I am of Eastern European Ancestry!
Where did the expression come from to Kiss Me I’m Irish and all other interesting bits of Irish blarney? Hold onto you seats I am about to waylay any wonderment's that may be unresolved and for sure with me it might very well be a bumpy ride.
The shamrock: “According to St. Patrick's Day lore, Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to explain the Christian holy trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Today, St. Patrick's Day revelers wear a shamrock. Trifolium dubium, the wild-growing, three-leaf clover that some botanists consider the official shamrock, is an annual plant that germinates in the spring. Other three-leaf clovers, such as the perennials Trifolium repens and Medicago lupulina, are "bogus shamrocks," according to the Irish Times. John Parnell, a botanist at Trinity College Dublin, said that Trifolium dubium is the most commonly used shamrock today, which lends credence to the claims of authenticity.” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120316-saint-patricks-day-2012-march-17-facts-ireland-irish-nation/ “Who Are The Leprechauns of Ireland?
As part of Irish mythology and folklore the Leprechauns are part of our faerie folk, called by some as the “wee folk”. As a cousin of the clurichaun they are known to inhabited Ireland well before the arrival of the Celts. Small enough for one to sit comfortable on your shoulder they are very smartly dressed in small suites with waist coats, hats and buckled shoes. As mischievous and intelligent folk they are general harmless to the general population in Ireland, although they are known to play the odd trick on farmers and local population of villages and towns. It is said that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold, hidden deep in the Irish countryside. To protect the leprechaun’s pot of gold the Irish fairies gave them magical powers to use if ever captured by a human or an animal. Such magic an Irish leprechaun would perform to escape capture would be to grant three wishes or to vanish into thin air!” http://www.yourirish.com/folklore/the-leprechauns/ Best Answer - Chosen by Asker "You are looking at a couple of different ideas and beings and time frames here that have been all mixed up together and cobbled to make up this folk tale. Technically the whole idea of this is to describe something that cannot happen. You can never find the end of a rainbow. In Ireland, where this saying started, rainbows would often appear to end at the burrow mounds or megalithic tombs, which were said to be entrances into the World of the Fae or the Tuatha de Dannan, who were known to have gold. In the 1700's the English turned this underground race of beings from majestic, to-be-feared creatures to small, strange looking caricatures of their true selves and dubbed them 'leprechauns'. These leprechauns where then said to guard the pots of gold but that you could make them give you the gold if you captured one... And the whole folktale was born.
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, as I said, is a powerful image of an unattainable goal, but one worth (perhaps) pursuing.” http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111104070233AANX8Pr Kiss Me I’m Irish! “It is a reference to the Blarney Stone. Kissing the Blarney stone brings you good luck so if you can't kiss the stone the next best chance of getting good luck is "kissing an Irish person." (Side Note: The Blarney Stone is the 'Stone of Eloquence' in Blarney Castle, kissing it gives you the ability to never be lost for words, becoming a smooth talker so-to-speak)” Unsigned. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_does_%27Kiss_me_I%27m_Irish%27_come_from
Now I hope that is enough info to make your blooming greenery day! On that responsible recycler personage of a merry let’s be green day, it’s not that easy being green day, you bet my sweet shillelagh! Which, by the way, is just a nice name for a fancy walking stick or not so fancy one… now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!
Saturday, March 16, 2013
"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think." George Carlin
Friday, March 15, 2013
I am sure happy that I am flying by the seat of my pants still...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
A step by step tutorial-pictorial on how to make tomato sauce...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Why is it when someone with more notoriety says the same thing...people perk up to listen?
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Just call me, Donna Quixote!(No such thing)
Monday, March 11, 2013
"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success..."
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Good food and nice new useful artsy decoration...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Another pictorial of our day!
All for $3.75; three vintage glass cups @.75 and one multi-colored necklace @$2, and one wall mirror @ $1 for our hallway!
The glasses were to replace the broken ones from my Mom’s tea and sandwich set of six, the cups are slightly smaller and not as fluted but blend well, I think, on today what would have been my parents seventy-second anniversary, having been married 3-09-1941, what luck! The necklace was just something I liked and not extravagant and the mirror will be given a white wash or perhaps colorized, since it is plastic not wood and will fit in much better with our cottage décor.
Here’s a sample of the glass set with one of each cup
Sorry a bit blurry, battery in the camera was going dead.
Here’s where I got the mirror and necklace at the Punta Gorda Chamber’s City-Wide Garage Sale…
The remainders of the pictures are from the Cultural Center of Port Charlotte; today was their 11th Annual Spring Bazaar!
This has become our reasonable lunch place. Usually lunch for two under ten bucks, and good tasty food too, today we had seafood casserole with our own waters, for $9.52 for two!
In the back is a separate Tea Room.
An antique store with fine antiques, what a concept.
This is for clothing but in the back there is also a Trash or Treasure for all sorts of collectables and kitchen items etc, and that is where I found my glass cups.
The foyer from the front entrance…These vendors, more than eighty, so I was told, are all in one of the many rooms just for the actual Spring Bazaar.
All in all our day was filled with interesting and colorful things to look at, and not half bad… and on that higher than last night’s note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!
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