Finally back home, where I can drop by and say Hi! My Pear tree blossomed on time this Spring but my dogwoods are all just blossoming now, and my apple trees have just began to blossom. With all the rain the past few years, just about my entire tree cove has doubled in height! No exaggeration. I am hoping to put in some poplars and maples. Then I will have a nice tightly cropped mix of about 6 deciduous and 2 conifer,types. The first six types are tightly planted to insure competitiveness for sunlight. The reason for it is to produce trees with the harder wood than trees that are spaced on a tree farm.
Hot, rich coffee to keep me awake till the sun goes down! lol
People tell me all the time, that they are bored. This is inconceivable to me. Did you know you can make every waking moment in your life meaningful? Granted, some moments are painful, nut it is meaningful. However, in a situation like we currently find ourselves in, locked up in a house or apartment, you would not believe how good you could be at some new hobby or skill, science or art. Just with simple logic, I can show you how to do it. Just find something that you always wanted to get good at like playing chess. Taking chess as an example, I can work out many others if you write to me privately and ask me to. Here is what you can do in this one "game."
For example, you could take an online course on almost anything, like learning how to play chess well.
(a) You could work on your openings
(b) You could work on your middle game
(c) You could work on your endgame.
(d) You could work on any of these when you have the white pieces
(e) You could work on any of these when you have the black pieces
(f) You could work on any of the above (a to e) to improve your offensive game
(g) ditto, to improve your defensive game.
(h) You could do any of the above for just one kind of piece: a king, a queen, a knight, a bishop, etc.
(i) You could do any of the above using the mathematical possibilities as shown on line that have been worked out with a computer.
(j) You could study any or all of the above by watching the great masters use them in actual games.
(k) You could use both (i) & (j) together.
This could go on for a lifetime. Some people do that and make a good living by winning games at tournament.
That list is seemingly endless.
Then you could be involved in the art/craft of making the materials used in playing the game. None is easy, and each involves a lot of work and research.
For example, in my family, my father was a skilled wood carver, and burnisher, and made many beautiful set of pieces, used by some very skilled players, or as a form of decoration in a game room.
My brother was a Master, so he made his living playing in tournaments.
As a hobby, I love to make the actual chessboard itself. There are so many ways that can be done. I have gotten some pretty fair prices for some of my boards.
No, they are not all alike.
Some people collect chess sets in a whole array of different ways.
I hope you can see that just around the game of chess, there are many thousands of interesting things you could do.
But more importantly, you could do millions of things with your time, with that kind of specificity.
Moreover, above I have just used an analytic method to work out the above lists.
One could work on one thing by creating whole new spin offs of an already existing game.
There is no need for anyone to be bored.
"Latcho Drom" by a gypsy village in the movie, "Latcho Drom" (=good/fateful journey/odyssey). A drom is Roma's ride in wagons and with horses in their lives. A band of people travelling together was always varied in size, and when two bands met up after a couple of years, some families would interchange the band they were with.
I would write all this out into a story but am afraid of the reaction I would get.
Elvis
Women's tennis or women's ice skating.
I pick a stratocaster.
A Martin or a Gibson.
Urgent - ENrage [Using second and third to the last letters er the rules.]
Strawberry Sparkling Water
The Lyrics in French thne in English:
Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?
Ce soir, le vent qui frappe à ma porte
me parle des amours mortes
devant le feu qui s'éteint.
Ce soir, c'est une chanson d'automne
dans la maison qui frissonne
et je pense aux jours lointains.
Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?
Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours ?
Une photo, vieille photo
de ma jeunesse.
Que reste-t-il des billets doux ?
Des mois d'avril, des rendez-vous ?
Un souvenir qui me poursuit,
sans cesse.
Bonheur fané, cheveux au vent,
baisers volés, rêves mouvants.
Que reste-t-il de tout cela ?
Dites-le-moi.
Un petit village, un vieux clocher,
un paysage si bien caché,
et dans un nuage le cher visage
de mon passé.
Les mots, les mots tendres qu'on murmure,
les caresses les plus pures,
les serments au fond des bois,
les fleurs qu'on retrouve dans un livre,
dont le parfum vous enivre,
se sont envolés. Pourquoi ?
English:
What remains of our loves?
Versions: #1#2
Tonight, the wind knocking at my door
speaks to me of past loves
before the dying fire
tonight, an autumn song
quavers through the house
and I think of those bygone days
refrain:
What remains of our loves?
What of those fine days of yore?
A photo, an old photo, of my youth.
What remains of the love letters
the months of April, the rendez-vous?
A memory that pursues me without fail
a shadow of happiness, windblown hair
stolen kisses, moving dreams
what remains of all these things
do tell me?
a little village, an old bell tower
fields and meadows, well tucked away
and in a cloud, the cherished face
of my past days.
The words, the tender words that are murmured
the caresses purest of the pure
the vows exchanged deep in the woods
the flowers one finds among the pages of a book
whose perfume quakes and stirs
have all blown away, oh why?
Only an elderly French male could write such a song in their old age. It contrasts so well with Maurice Chevaliers, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"
I've got me here a full mug of fresh hot coffee, no sugar, so I deeply appreciate all those great cookies! What better treat can a man have than to be given a jar of cookies by a sweet southern belle?
Andy Nonymous, "They're not all for you cowboy!"
My Response: "Well I'll be gawl derned!"
Enjoy your day at the library Angel! Thank for the cookies!
George Harrison - "Here Comes the Sun"
Sleepless in Seattle-- Carly Simon doing "In the We Small Hours of the Morning"
Louis Armstrong doing "A Kiss to Build A Dream On."
Jimmy Durante doing "As Time Goes By"
Nat King Cole doing "Stardust"
Dr John with Rickie Lee Jones doing "Making Woopie!"
Gene Autry doing "Back in the Saddle Again"
Joe Cocker doing "Bye Bye Blackbird"
Harry Connick, Jr. doing a"A Wink and A Smile"
Tammy Wynette doing "Stand by Your Man"
Jimmy Durante doing "Make Someone Happy"
Celine Dion doing "When I Fall In Love"
Because he put the devil's image in our Forum!!
