climbing the ladder

did the midterm for level 2 oilpatch accounting today... 82%! YES!!!

somehow managed to walk away from the harp enough to study.

onward!

the poly cover over the strawberries in early spring has paid off. i'm picking strawberries for breakfast every day, and had about 3/4 of a gallon to freeze a day or 2 ago. they're just beginning to REALLY produce, and heavy with ripening berries, so i should have more berries than ever in my wildest dreams over the winter. :o) And the diatomaceous earth has kept the slugs at bay. i'm getting more berries than the crawlies are!

a new thing

i'm getting a 30 string Celtic harp this weekend, and my first lesson.

very excited!

after all, this is probably the closest i'll ever come to being angelic!

grannyfiddler - little known facts

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Grannyfiddler!

1. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat grannyfiddler'.
2. Baskin Robbins once made grannyfiddler flavoured ice cream.
3. Grannyfiddler once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but grannyfiddler can not!
5. Pacman was originally called grannyfiddlerman.
6. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw grannyfiddler into a volcano it would stop erupting!
7. Never store grannyfiddler at room temperature.
8. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by grannyfiddler.
9. All shrimp are born as grannyfiddler, but gradually mature into females.
10. Grannyfiddler has three eyelids.

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little known facts about grannyfiddler

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Grannyfiddler!

1. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat grannyfiddler'.
2. Baskin Robbins once made grannyfiddler flavoured ice cream.
3. Grannyfiddler once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but grannyfiddler can not!
5. Pacman was originally called grannyfiddlerman.
6. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw grannyfiddler into a volcano it would stop erupting!
7. Never store grannyfiddler at room temperature.
8. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by grannyfiddler.
9. All shrimp are born as grannyfiddler, but gradually mature into females.
10. Grannyfiddler has three eyelids.

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little known facts about grannyfiddler

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Grannyfiddler!

1. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat grannyfiddler'.
2. Baskin Robbins once made grannyfiddler flavoured ice cream.
3. Grannyfiddler once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but grannyfiddler can not!
5. Pacman was originally called grannyfiddlerman.
6. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw grannyfiddler into a volcano it would stop erupting!
7. Never store grannyfiddler at room temperature.
8. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by grannyfiddler.
9. All shrimp are born as grannyfiddler, but gradually mature into females.
10. Grannyfiddler has three eyelids.

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little known facts about grannyfiddler

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Grannyfiddler!

1. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat grannyfiddler'.
2. Baskin Robbins once made grannyfiddler flavoured ice cream.
3. Grannyfiddler once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but grannyfiddler can not!
5. Pacman was originally called grannyfiddlerman.
6. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw grannyfiddler into a volcano it would stop erupting!
7. Never store grannyfiddler at room temperature.
8. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by grannyfiddler.
9. All shrimp are born as grannyfiddler, but gradually mature into females.
10. Grannyfiddler has three eyelids.

http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl" method="get" style="background-color:#5F5F42;color:#CFCF95;padding:4px;text-align:center">I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

summer is a fertility goddess

she's lush and fruitful, voluptous like the plaster cast of Claire's friend Fiona, just before birthing. she's rich, and she's generous with her bounty, never stingy. summer dances languidly in the breeze, clothed in gossamer layers of every shade and nuance of green imagineable, and some that can't be imagined. she wears pearls of dew and diamonds of raindrops at her ears and throat. as she dances, flowers spring up wherever her feet touch the earth, and enfold her in their perfume.

she is always barefoot. her skin is brown. her eyes are dark and deep as new-turned earth.

grannyfiddler

grannyfiddler

I am a Daffodil What Flower Are You?

grannyfiddler

summertime

the home computer gets less and less reliable on-line - high frustration levels are not conducive to blogging anything anyone would want to read.... and summer is the very busiest time at work, so not even time for a quick coffee break blog here. also, i've an accounting midterm looming, and finals shortly thereafter, so must cram mightily when i'm not hauling stones for landscaping the yard.

so won't be 'home' much over the next 2 or 3 months. will stop by and visit with friends when the opportunity comes. and will try to get a friend to take some digital pictures and help me figure out how to post them in lieu of words.

so, a very pleasant and well blessed summer to my friendly and faithful blog neighbors.

tag! i'm it!

five items in my fridge
avacadoes

mixed salad greens

mangoes

leftover barbequed beef (from a friend)

gluten free bread

five items in my closet
lots of lovely new clothes ('new' as in... less than 5 years old... since i've got a real job)

a pair of x-country ski boots i'm hoping to unite with skis some time fairly soon

an 'antique' mechano set loaned by friends for eldest son (now 30+) to play with, and not yet returned

my painting clothes, bespattered with a colorful record of the home renovations of the past 13 years

out of season footwear

five items in my car

many empty diet pepsi bottles

a racquetball racquet and goggles

gym bag sneakers and membership card

spare lipstick

chewing gum and fruit bars

five items in my 'purse'

palm pilot

cell phone

feminine hygiene products

theatre tickets

program from last weekend's graduation (2nd youngest son)

Five items on my computer desk

a picture of my granddaughter

stacks of sheet music and music books

empty teacup (would you like more? if you say 'no' i'll believe you the first time)

violin cleaner/polish

unpaid utility bills