Anything Special
Anything special or new in your lives? Something GOOD???? Something you enjoyed?
For me - it has been a long wet May. Chilly and drab, but this weekend it has been sunny & chilly so we got the area of Summerland set up ( the place we put memorials to lost pets & flowers for lost persons). My lilac bush planted for my passed sister in law is blooming. The mums for my mother survived the cold of winter. The statues for my lost pets are out and guarding the area. The hummingbird feeder is set up with quite a few visitors. Old Glory is flying high and all is good in my world.
I have started reading the memoirs of Josh Gates (love me some Josh). Started the new season of Criminal Minds: Evolution. Have gone back in time to the show Profiler on the Roku Channel. My son bought me a couple of DVDs I am looking forward to (the mini series The Shining & the Rob Lowe version of Salem's Lot). I am looking forward to some alone time to watch them (no one in my family appreciates Stephen King).
All these things are good. Special to me.
Tell me something good & special in your life.
Good & special - the joyful summer time.
I'll be enjoying a barbecue with my adult children this afternoon.
Morning...you beauty!!
I will be right over... nothing beats a good Barbie...steaks, snags and prawns...bliss...
We did that all weekend long. Saturday was BBQ chicken, Hot German potato salad, pasta salad - Sunday was Hots & Brats & leftover salads - Monday was my son's special burgers and baby potatoes on the grill. For once it didn't rain the whole weekend.
Hubby got my pool set up so if it ever gets hot here I can sit in my pool....
... nice. I ate too much.
Morning...no worries...
Just hit the waves and jaws will soon chase those extra kilos off... problem solved..😁
I'm in colorado, so the big one has to swallow up LA or the super volcano has to blow in wyoming before any beach will ever be close by ...
Morning...geez any excuse..can always drive...
No worries, I can drop off a croc...that will burn off the bbq...
I'll be waiting, but just to be certain you get here, you better teach it to drive ...
Morning... Summerland...
That really is a lovely idea for people and pets that have gone on ahead...🥀
Nice photo of the moggy..🐾🐾
What's its name please?
Ghost
What a great name..
America is in the greatest internal crisis since the Civil War, and yet everyday there are acts of kindness and self sacrifice and love for our fellow man. It is incongruous, but it is a good.
what a wonderful world - asleep at the wheel
I'm in the fourth season of the old British TV series Upstairs, Downstairs, and am struck with how good the writing is, and how well the storylines have aged. Some episodes would feel relevant to today, if there were higher hemlines and fewer corsets.
My son just turned 21.
And my sister, brother, and sister-in-law, and maybe my nephew, will be visiting in a few weeks. We plan to do the DC tourist thing for a weekend.
... seems like he just graduated high school, where has the time gone?
We must've blinked.
What?!?! He can't be that old. I swear he was just playing baseball last summer!
You're not kidding. I'm sure it was just a week or so ago that I was bringing him home from the hospital.
All that sounds great. Hubby and I are traveling in August for our 40th. We are going to Saratoga.
The quality of this video isn't great, but there's a pretty small limit on video uploads to NT.
Happy driving Bob..looks a nice car..
I had no problem viewing it, which as you know is unusual. However, I couldn't help thinking that I would have no idea how to drive this car, but I reminisced about my very first car, a 1950 Ford Custom Coach in which EVERYTHING was manual, nothing was automatic or electronic except for the push-button AM radio. That car didn't drive me, I had to drive that car. Anyway, you enjoy that new car.
This car has two drive modes: one is "just like any automatic transmission car"; the other is "regenerative braking".
The "regen" uses the motor as a dynamo, converting the energy of the stop into electricity that goes back into the battery. The cars slows as you lift off the accelerator. It is not quite one-pedal. When you lift off the accelerator, it slows to a crawl, but you have to use the brake pedal for a complete stop. Some EVs come to a full stop. I'm still getting used to this, so I don't really have an opinion.
Otherwise, it just a car. It drives like an automatic transmission, although there is in fact just one gear ratio. An electric motor delivers power over a much wider band than an ICE, so one ratio is sufficient. There are a few very high end (expensive!) EVs from Porsche or Audi that have two-speed transmissions... but this car costs less than a quarter of what those cost.
An electric motor is different in another way: it delivers maximum torque at zero RPM. So even a fairly anemic motor is quick off the line. Manufacturers have learned to "tame" this torque, so that the car won't go nuts if you hit the accelerator too hard. Still... it snaps your head back if you goose it.
It's modern, so it has distance-sensing cruise control, and all that stuff... but you just take a few minutes to input all the settings you like, and then it remembers you.
Our old Citroëns were very modern for their time, so we're used to being pampered by a car.
A long time ago I did own a French car - a Peugeot 604. It was known as the Cadillac of France. Its tires were very unusual Michilens, and when they were wearing out and required replacement they were so expensive I traded the car.
Cool. I love new vehicles - although I like my Silverado.
wtf? I thought you said hubby was a mechanic ...
He is. Heavy Duty - he works on the BIG trucks. MACKS.
Big Macs?
Morning... he would fit right in here...he would love it..
meh, I was slamming chevy trucks ...
I have a license to drive either one of those, you little ripper ...
Morning...Big macs..🙄
You mob get things so arse about...
That's would be Macca's... aka McDonald's...yeesh everyone knows that here...
Morning Vangy..so what are you waiting for??..earn around $160,000 hauling in one of the road trains....
Eucla truckies can get up to $220,000...
You to, can live on the rock...
gee I don't know, how much is that in american money? I don't have to eat any vegemite, do I?
$220,000 AUS is $143,000 in US..
Yes we regularly test for personal use of Vegemite...if you fail you are out..😁
Speaking of which that's on the menu for this morning..
Look at that... perfection...what more can I say..🦘
... uh, no comment on what that breakfast bears a resemblance to ...
I just bought a new Jeep Wrangler 5 weeks ago, I love it.
Pure gold...you are absolutely right..🐨
... uh, yeah ... that's it ...
that should be fun in your locale. where I'm at, most own 4x4's just to get across town a couple weeks out of the year ...
Ummm....the steering wheel is on the wrong side... didn't they tell you that...😁
Plenty of room in the boot as well..
The dealer said it would be corrected under guarantee.
I got a new dog this spring. A Great Dane, first one of them I have had. She is a happy dog.
Great Danes are good dogs, my brother has rescued a few. Warning they do consider themselves to be lap dogs
I have found that out and she will sneak up on the bed after you fall asleep
You may need a bigger bed..😊
Bigger beds don't always work.
My guys helping me nap -
Good resting and nothing will get you
I had a Great Dane fall over on me once. I thought she broke my arm
New PUPPERS.... always fun. Big lap dog you have there.
Nice post, V…
Hosting a bbq get together for our Special Olympics team of athletes and fellow coaches this afternoon. When things get tough to comprehend in these trying daze, spending time with these extraordinary people puts it all in perspective. Peace!
Thank you for stopping by and for hosting such a special event.
I am trying to stay positive this year.
My neighbor has the grill lit up so I am headed over there
And I have a ripe tomato
MMMMMMM - I love tomatoes.
Hope you had a good time next door.
Absolutely one of my favourite food items. I can still recall watching my father eat a tomato like an apple - I guess I inherited his taste. I eat tomatoes almost every day.
Graduated to using only one crutch (kinda) to get around last week (first time I haven't used two in a year and a half). Headed to a family reunion this summer, it'll be the first time seeing some of my relatives in 20 years. Other than that it's warm and the sun is shining, happy days
Arvo..well done Free...always a good and satisfying achievement when you progress over health issues..
Love, sun & warmth make for happy days.
Progress from 2 to 1. Keep moving ahead....
My 9 month old grandson, Owen, visits next week ... a good thing as the diapers I bought are too small for me.
Morning...what a handsome little lad.. could be a budding engineer or construction worker....
The SILENCE is almost shocking.
Otherwise... it's just a nice car. And that's a good thing. There's nothing to differentiate it from an ICE except that SILENCE.
Next time, buy Depends.
I have an early exit plan before that horror arrives.
The thought of needing them one day scares the ^^^^ out of me.
What a cutie. Enjoy him & hug the stuffing out of him. They do not stay little long.
Didn't you check the size?
But of course and twice.
Morning...saw my specialist last week and all systems still go..no sign of the myeloma and coming up to nearly three years without taking any medication..must be the Vegemite..😁
But the best news we have had rain.. Victoria and South Australia are in the grip of drought, even I have never seen it so dry for this time of year...
New South Wales and Queensland have got massive floods..but that's Australia all over..as a famous poem here states....
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
That's excellent news, shona!
... uh, sounds more like a muddy brown rock.
brilliant health news, shona!
Ahh yes we are a bit soggy and boggy but the Outback is now green..
One of Mother Nature's master pieces..
From this...
To this..
Glad to hear you're doing well!
Happy you got the precipitation you needed. Here's to happy times & warm climes.
Great news!
Thank you Frosty and all....yes I do tend to hold my breath until I know the results...
To celebrate had a cappuccino and a toasted ham, cheese and tomato sanga (sandwich) and sat down by the harbour to celebrate..
Go back in September so continue on as normal..🦘
Not much that is that special in my life these days, although every day is pretty good. I do watch an average of a movie a day, and now and then I see one I've not seen before that I think is better than most, or even if it might not have been considered by the critics or the public to be that special I mght have thought it to be. One I watched recently was The Bookshop, and in an article I recently posted in my Books group I explained my feelings about it. As well, we are approaching Dragon Boat Festival during which a delicacy called zongzi is eaten, and I'm looking forward to having them for lunch today. I guess that at my age every day I'm able to wake up in the morning, still go for walks, might be considered special.
As long as the days are good. I have made it my self-mission to find something good from each day and make an offering at night for that good thing. Have to stay positive.
It's been a miserable May. Rain and cool. However, I got a small crop of peas yesterday and I ruined them.
Looking forward to Mr G going away for a while so I can do my thing like read in peace.
Don;t have a lot of plans for this summer
Hear you on the rainy & cool May - The last few days we have been cool, but sunny. Tomorrow it goes back to rain & cool. BUT my flowers are growing.
I get up an hour before Hubby so I can read in peace.
Sometimes no plans are a good thing.
i had actually started out to my plan i had mentioned to you, as in moving to Ohio to be with a girl I knew in my youth, as she recently became widowed, and we were friends on Facebook but in January we started talking about travel, and haven't stopped since. Its 4;15 AM here and about an 8 hour drive to her beatiful set uo in Ohio. It's very simialar to the Pocono area but the small town hospitality reminds me of Maybery. So here I am, ignorant fool with fresh slobber and drool, playing a tool, visiting the polite and friendly folk of this ole little town of 1,562, but, it is like an attempt to grab some very wet and slippery pus ///// woops, i pulled a Trumper, as I feel like i just grabbed some wet and slippery ACID, and it is so slippery, I tend to keep on dropping it, (acid_0), where was I B 4 my shoes are untied to the tied dye tie i wear for working the roles payed by those with theoir own visione as they toast glasses inside the posters toasters like marshmellow frllow because they have not been
Shall be an interesting new chapter in my book of horrors
I've rewritten the first 50 pages of romance novel about 6 times. I think I'm in a good place with the 2 main characters now - who they are and what motivates them. They are normal everyday people, but that in itself creates the issue of how do I make 2 ordinary people interesting enough to keep the reader engaged?
turn one into a serial killer, with a twisted specialty ...
In 2008 there was a short run TV show called Eli Stone. It only ran for 2 seasons. I like the show because the lead character triumphed by always doing the right thing for the right reasons, even when it seemed insurmountably difficult.
For awhile now I've tired of anti-heros and people doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. The whole idea of my story is to show that sometimes doing the right thing, being the nice guy, might be difficult, but ultimately makes this couple stronger.
Both characters are broken in similar ways, but since they different people they deal with these issues in fundamentally different ways. In the short term they don't "fix" each other, but in broad strokes they compliment each other. He is lonely and she had changed everything she loved about herself to conform to the image her ex wanted. He wants to fix all her problems. She is worried she could slip into the same pattern of conforming to his life without knowing who she really is, or wants to be.
Both understand their past relationships were toxic, but they also know they were also partially to blame for that and they both held on to it too long. How does that effect this new one? Can she trust him not to cheat and lie, like her ex? Can he negotiate arguments in a healthy way when his ex used fights and make-up sex as ways of control?
AND THEN... I'll add physical trauma into the drama...
Making this all an interesting weave will be a challenge.
What an excellent idea, but which one, she or me ?
Oh, that question wasn't posed to I, besides, I'm not afraid to die. I used to be a dumb brunette, and do my best mourning after brunch on Froot Loops after I eat my Wheaties and get chaffed. I'll see if i can't talk her into it, that weigh, we can kill two love birds, with one Alka Seltzer Water Gone Wild ! Be There !!
I was just spitballing a subplot. mixing something healthy and normal with a shocking surprise undercurrent that's hinted at, but then manifests itself at the most inopportune time ...
why not both ...
Watch 'You' on Netflix and go for both.
Like a podiatrist.
Settle down Iggy... LOL