Today is Natioal Arbor Day. I thought this quote was fitting for today.
Quote for today:
"Forest Revival: Koa is the king of Hawaii's endemic forests, the only places it grows. Reaching up to a hundred feet tall, these flowering trees once provided wood for native Islander's canoes and surfboards. But more than two centuries of logging and clearing the land for grazing have reduced Koa forests to about 215,000 acres, perhaps half their original expanse."
GOOD NEWS HERE:
"To reverse this decline, private landowners and state and federal governments have planted hundreds of thousands of trees over the past 35 years. The new Koa forests attract birds, insects, and plants and improve watersheds, which helps humans too. ---A.R. Williams---
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Do you think handwriting is a lost form? With the inception of the internet most
people are thinking that writing is on the way out. That simply is not true.
In the early years of your education you learn to write in
cursive. It is an artistic form of
writing and you used it in every day writing since then. Now some people are saying that they do not
need to teach that anymore and the block writing that is more often than not
easier to read. It has started as simplly in your education all the way up to what beuty writing can be as Caligraphy.
I do not think that it will ever go out of style to write in
cursive. There ae many ways that you use
it as writing your signature. Thought
there is the new internet and that many things can be used to give your
credence to things you will always use your signature and also print out your
name in various places. Some of those
that demand your written signature and also your printed name are on loans. Have you recently bought a new car? Did you have to sigh and print your name on
about 12 pages of papers to get that car?
How about when you go to the grocery store and that you use your credit
or debit card, you also had to sing your name on the credit card receipt. When you got a mortgage, you also had to put
your signature and print your names on that as well. Notary Publics sign their names to all kinds
of legal documents as well. I do not
think that teaching cursive writing is ever going to go out of style or use.
Writing has been a form of art form thousands of years. Writing is big business. Just take a look at what kinds of things they
sell in all kinds of stores from Dollar Stores to Grocery stores and Office
supply stores. You can buy stationery
sets, drawing tablets, paper, pens rulers, colored pens, colored pencils, pens
that have smells of good things. What do
you think of when you smell blueberries or strawberries? How about the smell of apple pie? Doesn’t that get your memories going and your
creativity started?
Papermate and Bic are huge makers and suppliers of colored ink
pens. All the colors of the rainbow are at your fingertips. Use your imagination or get it all going by
using colored ink in your correspondence and other things that you write.
Apple Tarts, Debra Allen
Mr. Sketcher is a company that sells scented markers. Imagine smelling an orange and drawing a
picture of an orange grove. How about
the smell of the blueberry and moments later you have drawn a blueberry
pie. Your canvas can be of white drawing
paper to colored paper and imagine writing a letter to your love or children
with these and share your imagination and foster their imaginations when they
open their stationery that you hand-picked for them. Another company sells pens that smell like
Lavender, Pina Colada and coffee. How’s
that to wake you up in the morning? Did
you know that a simple aroma can bring memories to you that you once though
lost? Yes, indeed. Science has found that the sense of smell can
trigger memories of all kinds to the individual. Color can too and is used to manipulate
emotions of all kinds.
Don’t you just want to go write or doodle right now? Go ahead and use your cursive and imagination
to sign, write and draw your life.
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I hope that you are having a very nice Easter with friends and family. Today I took pictures of some of the plants, trees and flowers that I have growing in my yard and gardens.
Daffodils almost ready!
Lilac leave are popping and will be unfulred in about a week or so!
I do hope that we get flowers this year. I love the smell or Lilacs.
Daffodils up close.
Hyacinths poking up out of the ground.
Get up sleepy heads!
The Ivy is really starting to take off.
Another picture of the ivy that I have planted in the old iron tub.
It is up against the front of the house.
We used an old daybed frame for the trellis.
The holly that we planted a few years ago is getting bigger year by year.
My White Hellebore
We also started on the raised gardens. Thought we do not plant things until after my birthday, I want to get the preperations done before that. Today was a very nice day for that kind of work. It is suppsed to be soggy come Tuesday all the way to Friday. Getting the first projects underway is a good thing becasue you never know what is going to be happening at any given time that will change your plans.
I wrote my first entrance into my Garden Journal on my Gardening blog. There I have all the pictures of what we did today.
This is what they looked like 2 years ago.
The will have different plants in thiem this year.
We will be setting in the post on the Bird feeder. We have it moved, we just have to dig the hole deeper and level it out. We have a problem with digging the hole deeper as my husband said that he hit rock. So that will be finished another day, when we figure out how to get the hole deeper.
I just love playing in the dirt and planting things! It is a very good stress reliever and I love watching things grow.
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I have to tell you that it is beautiful here in my neck of
the woods. I went out to feed my outdoor
cats and heard so many Robins singing their little hearts out. It is too bad that I could not get pictures
of them. I could not see them. They were
still in the trees. Oh it is still mostly
grey and browns out there, but I saw some little leaves on my Knock Out roses peeking
out from the stems. I thought the deer
ate them when they came through here the other day.
Our lilac bush is just about to open its leaves. I do not know if we will get flowers on it
this year or not. Some years we do and
some we don’t. I have no idea why they
do or why they don’t.
Tomorrow we will be transplanting our Heleborus back to
where it was last year. It just does not
like its toes pinched in the raised garden we had it in. It is also getting bud and getting ready to
show its pretty flowers. We will be
transplanting the Tall Phlox into that raised garden. They don’t have really
deep roots and I do believe that it will spread and fill that box by the end of
summer.
We do have to do some maintenance on our gardens as you can
see. It is an every spring event. The ground rises as it hardens in the winter
and then lowers when it is spring. Along
with that we have many animals that like to disturb the boards when they walk
on top of them or around then. I have
even seen the cats lay right up against them.
I have seen the deer walk all over them and pull them up when they move
their hooves over them. No deer today!
This is the time of year that we really get busy
outside. It is nice and warm and we do
lots of prep-work for the vegetables and flowers that we are going to be
planting come the end of April.
Rototilling will also be included in those jobs. Everything may still be a bit dreary and
grey, but there are flowers and trees showing day by day.
I told my husband and everyone else too that I will not be
planting vegetables this year. It is so
hard to keep up with the bugs around here and there seems to be a new variety
each year. Alas, it looks like I will be
planting some anyway as I could not afford to get many of the bulbs that I
would have loved to get for the summer.
I wanted to plant them instead, but I do not like the looks of empty
raised beds.
Here are some of the ways that we have tried to keep those
pesky bugs off our plants. I called them
Conestoga Wagons, because that is what they look like. I might have to do that again. They only problem is that I cannot have those
nets over them when they start growing too tall. I must say though that I do like picking
fresh produce from my garden in the summer.
Are you ready for Spring?
What kinds of things do you do?
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I was watching the news about the German Aircraft pilot that murdered himself and all those aboard the airplane. It is so sad to learn this. It is even sadder that all those people that were on that plane were screaming for their lives and could do nothing about it.
What is even sadder is that the pilot took it upon himself, in a terrible state of mind, to kill everyone. He thought of nobody else's life. He himself was having some sort of mental disturbance or life experience that the only answer that he could come up with was to plan to kill himself and others on that plane. It was premeditated!
Now there is a flurry of incidences like this that the pilot planned to kill others and themselves by crashing the plane to end their suffering. They don't know how they have affected others and brought about mass suffering because of their single act.
They are now discussing how the pilots are trained and screen for all kinds of mental disturbance, flight hours, experience and the like. They are sort of making a mountain of a mole hill. Oh, do not get me wrong there is something really wrong with our society and the youth of today. I have noticed many people between the ages of 22 and 35 doing strange things and having so much anger and destructive behaviours. I can see this on the news, and on the Internet and in other media. I do not understand why others do not see it too. What is happening to the brains in this age group. Do not tell me that they have a hard life because that is a cop out. There is something really wrong here and it is not normal. Near the bottom of this article there is a list of the pilots that had crashed planes intentionally. The ages of them are also listed. Check it out: DailyMail Germanwings Plane Crash
Now for the simple solution for the pilots on planes. It is so simple and would solve all the problems of being locked-out of the cockpit. All the fluff about mental states and life situations and depression and all that is covering something up.
Why have they not thought of or had it in place from the beginning that all pilots on the plane have a key or key code to the cockpit? This would prevent someone being locked-out of the cockpit. It would also insure that anyone who got sick or other mental state that someone could get to them in case of such an emergency. It is so simple and so cheap and it behoves me to know why they don't have this in place already.
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I posted this some time ago on Bubblews and wanted to bring this up again because of some other reports that I have found very misleading. Many people actually believe whatever is on the internet, on the television and elsewhere without even researching it themselves. Here is the article that I wrote and will be adding other things to it.
I just had a conversation about that Face Book study from
Michigan University that says that those who use Face Book are sadder and less
satisfied. I don’t think that is
entirely true nor did they do a big enough study. Not enough people to qualify that study to be
true.
I think it is all propaganda. What was their motive for taking such a study
in the first place and why would they say such a broad statement about
something they must be being paid for. I
mean look at all the studies out there that have been proven wrong and there is
a Sales Pitch behind the study.
I hate watching TV anymore because you are not watching the
shows. What you are watching is a
plethora of commercials. My husband come
home from work and asks me what I am watching and I say Commercials. Seriously you are watching 10 minutes of the
show and 20 minutes of commercials and they constantly repeat the same ones
over and over again.
Now with Face Book supposedly making us sadder or not
satisfied: Well I would rather be on
Face Book than watching the millions of commercials on the TV. Commercials just make me angry. Face Book does not. I have friends and family on there that I can
strike up a conversation with. You can
be happy and satisfied with that.
The studies about the McDonald's being the cause of obesity is all false. I did lots of research in this and came to find out the study was not performed very well.
I found that they took a control group of about 60-80 people who had or had not had any cholesterol problems. They put these people on a diet of McDonald's hamburgers for 6 weeks. They were only to eat that for that amount of time. Of Course one will get sick if that is all they ate every day for 6 weeks. Who instigated that study in the first place? What was their purpose? Why only McDonald's because other fast food places cook their burgers and get them from the top 6 meat packaging plants as McDonald's? Someone has it out for them and people are believing all the HYPE versus going and doing an UN-biased research on the findings.
Another example is the pharmaceutical commercials and then the wrongful death from them. It is so funny to watch how they do these things. One commercial tells you that brushing your teeth with their brand will help fill in the gaps and holes of your teeth that are missing the enamel. Then you have another commercial stating that your enamel will never grow back.
Oh and let us not forget how many years that we have been eating oranges and other citrus foods and those which are destroying our enamel and making us have cavities. I don't believe their claims one bit. It's not like we only just now started eating those foods.
So who is behind those kinds of studies anyway? What is their Sales Pitch?
Do your own homework and don't just look on the first page of google. Go deeper than that and do your studies in an un-biased way.
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These are the lyrics
from the song above that was done way back in the 60's. I am posting it here
for the simple fact to use as my illustration to where we are in the scheme of
things currently in our society. Read the lyrics. My hub continues after that..........
In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535 Ain't
gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think, do, or say Is
in the pill you took today
In the year 4545 Ain't
gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to do
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555 Your
arms are hanging limp at your sides Your legs not nothing to do Some machine is
doing that for you
In the year 6565 Ain't
gonna need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your
daughter too From the bottom of a long black tube
In the year 7510 If
God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then Maybe he'll look around himself and
say Guess it's time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510 God's
gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or
tear it down and start again
In the year 9595 I'm
kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth
can give And he ain't put back nothing Now it's been 10,000 years Man has cried
a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through
the eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only
yesterday
So we already take a
pill for nearly everything that we don't think works the way we think it should
and we let others tell us what those are. We have lost touch with the real us.
We allow others to take control of our every move, thought and bodies. Then we
act shocked when something happens to our bodies we don't understand. Like the
song says---everything you think, do or say is in that pill you took today.
There are reasons why you get sick and there are reasons why your body has
pain. All those drub companies forcing you to watch their commercials are only
an easy cover-up to what is really happening in your body. You are allowing
them to cover up the symptoms. We must allow pain to tell us the root problem.
Pain is in our bodies for a reason--not to just be masked by the pill you take
today. Now they are making you get health insurance and taking our rights away. It is hard to get away from that. I have been caught up in that and had to pay a penalty this year. I won't get health insurace for many reasons. One is that I do not use chemicals and the health insurance companies do not pay for atlernative health measure and they are trying to get all helath suppliments off the market. Do I feel pressure to do something that I have a right to do? You bet!
Some of the reasons that I do not get sick are that I am listening to my body. Meditate and really feel your body. I don't
mean touchy feely stuff. I mean when you eat certain foods--what does your body
tell you and how does it feel in your mouth all the way down to the end result.
Stop and take time to eat. I was always scolded, by my mother, because I ate slowly.
I want to taste what I am eating and I want to experience it. I don't want to
eat like my dog that wolfs things down in one swallow and I don't even think he
tastes it. Life is for experiencing and enjoying the ride, not hurrying up to
get to the destination.
Take your time and smell the roses. Eat your
meals slowly. Don't rush. Make time for things and events. Don't do them just
because you think you should; do them because you want to. Live----really live.
Take control over the things that you were meant to take control of--your own
body and mind. Take self responsibility----stop letting others control
you................ and feel, really feel yourself. Pay attention to your body.
When you get stressed stop stressing and take a deep breath or three or four. Go outside and breath in deep the fresh air and let out the bad air. Feel it course through your body.
We have been doing and have done the Test Tube Baby. That test tube baby has a family and children of her own. We are getting much closer to finding and knowing how the genetic code works and what things that it causes when things are missing. Women will survive because without us men will never rule the planet. We are the vessle that new life is formed and you cannot have a future if you don't have that. All this before the year 2525. Amazing isn't it?
We are in an amazing times here on this planet! Look how far technology has come. Heck we did not have computers or cell phones when I grew up but there are many of them now. It hasen't even been 50 years! Look at the medical field. It is amazing! Space exploration, amazing! New life forms on the planet are forming and taking over the older ones. Maybe it is right for things to go extinct to make way for new ones and better ones. Speaking of the pill that you took today, they have pills that you swollow that have a camera inside of them that allows surgeons to see what happens in your body.
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ABC news had a report on Recalled Cars that are being sold
as new cars. You do know about all the
recalls the manufacturers have sent out to the media, don’t you? You trust that
they fix those defects in all those cars that get recalled before they are sold
again. Not so. ABC has went all over the states to find out
if they are or are not beings fixed before they are re-sold. They found that they are not. The cars have the new car small and all of
that and you think that you are buying a new car but you have to do your own
homework here yet again. By law they are
not permitted to resell a car that had been recalled until they have fixed the
problem. A girl got killed when she
drove a “new” car that was supposedly fixed after a recall. That was what got the news to look into this. Yep, as always it takes a death before something
is done.
Who is supposed to monitor these things in the auto
world? There is a company in Washington
D.C that does or is supposed to do that and it should not be left up the news
reporters for investigating into this activity
or lack of. The agency is NHTSA, “NHTSA
was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 and is dedicated to achieving
the highest standards of excellence in motor vehicle and highway safety. It
works daily to help prevent crashes and their attendant costs, both human and
financial. They should be the ones that are regulating this activity.
There is help though and you should do this before you buy a
new car. Go toSafercar.gov site and enter
the vehicle’s VIN and see if the vehicle was recalled and if the problems were
fixed.
Aren’t you tired of having to do that all the time with
everything from groceries to car and houses even? Ridiculous isn’t it?
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV's China unit will recall over 60,000 sport-utility vehicles in the country due to issues related to the cars' anti-skid braking (ABS) systems, a Chinese regulator said in a statement on Tuesday.
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said that under certain situations the ABS system could malfunction, raising the risk of collision and injury.
Among them are the Smart Car for 2, Scion iQ, Nissan Titan, Nissan Armada, Mitsubishi Mirage, Mitsubishi iMiEV, Lincold MKT, Lincoln MKS,Jeep Wrangler/Wrangler Unlimited, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Compass, Fiat 500L, Dodge Journey, Cadillac XTS, BMW 7 Series.
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