makes sense

"Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant."

Anonymous

summertime

It's Summer now that school is out and Memorial Day has passed. I guess officially we have a few more weeks, but I've never been very official.

The smells of summer:

Cantaloupe--I don't care for it myself, but all of my family does. That smell always means summer to me.

Fresh mown grass

Hot cotton -- when a kid we used to make a tent on Grandma's clothes line with some of her quilts. The smell of them in the hot sun was a wonderful smell. I still enjoy taking a quilt out and letting it warm in the sun.

State Fair smells

Sunscreen

Dirt

Koolaid

The sights of summer:

Kids running through sprinklers

Checkered tablecloths

Mountain lakes

Storm clouds

Kids riding bikes at dusk

Wildflowers

Too much skin

Fireworks

The sounds of summer:

Kids squealing as they run through sprinklers

Crickets

Cicadas

Bees

Ice Cream Trucks

Fans

The touch of summer:

The breeze from the fan

Cool water

Damp grass

Cotton clothes

Gravel under bare feet

Itchy mosquito bites

The tastes of summer:

Watermelon

Lemonade

Iced tea

Ice cream

Corn on the cob

Fresh green beans

BBQ

gotta have that

Ok, so you see a mattress store with a giant inflatable Statue of Liberty on top. Does that make you think, "Oh yeah, I Need a New Mattress. I think I'll go in right now and get one."??

You see one of those flexy, bendy guys, (air tubes, I discovered they are called). Do you say -"Hey, I think I'll go get my oil changed."??

You see a giant inflatable gorilla. Do you automatically decide to go buy a new car?

Do you even go into a business that you weren't planning to go into just because they have some kind of tacky inflatable thing on the roof?

There must be some statistics that show that they draw in customers. Why else would someone dish out the $800 or so? I looked at some sites that claimed your business would double with an inflatable, but they were selling the things.

I don't know - this was just on my mind today. I thought I would share.

now i get it

Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.

Bureaucratic Socialism
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

Real World Communism
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

Russian Communism
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.

Cambodian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

Militarism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

Totalitarianism

You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

Pure Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

British Democracy

You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

Bureaucracy
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

Pure Anarchy
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

Pure Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

Capitalism
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

Environmentalism

You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.

Political Correctness

You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

Surrealism
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

This was found at The Funny Farm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/index.html#list

leaving

"You have to leave before you can arrive."

That was the theme of my daughter's culmination ceremony at school today.

I like that thought.

Timely.

We are leaving a town we have lived in for 11 years. We recently left a church we had been in for several years. My kids will be leaving their school, and all of us leaving friends and familiarity.

You can't get anywhere when you're sitting in one place. You can't do something new until you stop doing the old thing - usually.

You can't reach the goal unless you leave the starting block.

edited to add :

You can't move into the new house unless you pack up the old one!

i always wondered

What finger are you? Hopefully not a thumb!

***You Are a Pinky***
You are fiercely independent, and possibly downright weird.

A great communicator, you can get along with almost anyone.

You are kind and sympathetic.

You support all your friends - and love them for who they are.
You get along well with: The Ring Finger
Stay away from: The Thumb
What Finger Are You?http://www.blogthings.com/whatfingerareyouquiz/

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