A good night's sleep, chocolate, the happiness and satisfaction of sharing on AgingCare forum. Does anyone have some favorite things to think about? Yes, this phrase is from the song in the movie "The sound of Music". My husband and I often resort to using movie lines and song to improve communication. We were the only two in a gathering of people who heard the background music playing. We both had the same (cassette tape/CD). A connection bringing two people together. To this day, we crack up when one uses a simple movie line to make a serious point.
SO, What is one of your favorite movie line, some of your favorite things?
I wasn't aware that Quebec was a maple syrup producer; I believe Vermont is, but I always thought of Quebec as being very cosmopolitan, not that that doesn't preclude back to the land living for folks in more rural areas.
In a few decades, children will have to learn about making maple syrup by going to nature museums.
It never ceases to fascinate me how people before our current generation learned how to use so much of what nature has to offer. I confess if I want syrup I go to the grocery store. But if I had maples instead of the prolific unwanted junk trees, I might be tempted to tap a tree just for the experience of it. It's innately satisfying to find sources of food and shelter directly, without going to Home Depot, Lowe's, or other store, but just going out into one's back yard.
Decades ago when Rodale's New Shelter magazine and Mother Earth News were the mantras of people concerned with pollution, earth sheltered homes, energy conservation, etc., MEN provided plans to build a cider press. I still have those magazines, and someday I still want to build a cider press to make my own cider from apple trees which I still have yet to plant.
Guess I should get out more and go to the beach.
I can see
Waters raging at my feet
I can feel
The breath of those surrounding me
I can hear
The sound of nations rising up
We will not be overtaken
We will not be overcome
I can walk
Down this dark and painful road
I can face
Every fear of the unknown
I can hear
All God’s children singing out
We will not be overtaken
We will not be overcome
The same power that rose Jesus from the grave
The same power that commands the dead to wake
Lives in us, lives in us
The same power that moves mountains when He speaks
The same power that can calm a raging sea
Lives in us, lives in us
He lives in us, lives in us
We have hope
That His promises are true
In His strength
There is nothing we can’t do
Yes, we know
There are greater things in store
We will not be overtaken
We will not be overcome
Greater is He that is living in me
He’s conquered our enemy
No power of darkness
No weapon prevails
We stand here in victory
Even though it's not my favorite thing, I am going to physical therapy-that is why I will be checking in less. Then, there is the full moon coming up. I really am missing everybody's comments! If I don't survive, I have asked my husband to check in here to say goodbye. That is as far as we have progressed with after death planning. It is enough!
Whatever name you choose or keep will be fine, I'm sure.
Cwillie, So sorry you became ill. I have noticed that even days before the actual symptoms of an illness we can get very irritable, so forgive yourself and start over. You are facing big decisions, and as long as you are undecided, that will add to your burden. You are right to ask for suggestions about deciding.
Get well soon. Then decide. For now, you can decide to defer the decision to a later time.
I love it when, hubs will make himself lunch and he shares some with the dog. It is so funny as I listen to him talk to the dog.
Hubs: "I gave you 5 pieces of the burrito, I didn't put hot sauce on the pieces I gave you."
Dog: She looks sadly at him, blinking her eyes.
Hubs: "Don't look like you are going to cry, I shared with you. I guess I could make a couple more, but you would sit and look at me like this even if I gave you more."
LOL!!! The big tough man has a heart!!!
Oh my gosh, he has passed on now but suppose she is on this site and sees this post. She could easily work out who wrote it couldn't she? Maybe I should just change my name.Now what should i call myself? Any suggestions?
Or you ca have the ashes made into diamonds and crystals for a price. One lady had a firework display suing her hubby's ashes.
Id like to be dropped over the side of a boat in the caribbean so the sharks can feed on me because I don't think we actually are at the top of the food chain and that would prove it!
Mmmm, turkey wings. So much more worthwhile than those tiny little chicken wings they have nowadays. Can you imagine them with bbq sauce?
The second is this song. Its an old Yorkshire song and for brevity I have missed out the multitude of repeat lines - I haven't eaten duck to the best of my knowledge in years because of this song
ON ILKLEY MOOR BAHT 'AT - Translation On Ilkley Moor without hat
(Traditional English - Yorkshire)
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee, (Where have you been since I saw you?)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?! (On Ilkley Moor without hat?)
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane (You've been courting Mary Jane)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd (You're bound to catch your death of cold)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall ha' to bury thee (Then we shall have to bury you)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop (Then the worms will come and eat you up)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms (Then the ducks will come and eat up the worms)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks (Then we shall go and eat up the ducks)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall all 'ave etten thee (Then we will have eaten you)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
That's wheer we get us oahn back (That's where we get our own back)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
And on a disgusting note our blacksmith confided that when his wife horse's died he could no dig a hole big enough so he used a chain saw to cut off the legs and put them in separately. He never told his wife and we don't know if she found out
Watching one of those home buying shows, the couple closed escrow and were told they were allowed to bury two people in their yard! Wouldn't that save lots!
I think it was outside of St. Louis. Eewwww! What if the previous owners already did that? An entire cemetery, right in your own back yard. A very green yard it was.