Drifting through life

Musical Monday I was introduced to Musical Monday by Delores who copied the meme from another site. I think it’s a fun way to show off some of the music we like and brighten up our Mondays at the same time.  I’ll be finding my clips on you tube , so will simply credit that site since there are often so many versions of everything and I wouldn’t want to accidentally credit the wrong artist. Today’s clip is: Pearl Jam Last Kiss and the lyrics A sad song, but I love it.

Welcome back to Sunday Selections! This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs. The rules are very simple:- 1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title 2. link back to me, River , somewhere in your post 3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted. 4. hop on over to The Elephant's Child to see more of her wonderful photos.   Andrew often joins in too, but he is currently holidaying in the summery northern hemisphere, hopefully taking lots of photos. I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections but this week my selection is rather more random .  I took a stroll through my 2010 and 2011 folders and came up with these: a little piece of yesteryear, sandwiched between two more modern styles. in Rundle Mall, Februar...

On Wednesdays , Elephant’sChild , puts up a selection of six (or twelve) words which she calls “Words for Wednesday” . She has taken over this meme from Delores , who is retiring from the blogging world.  Elephant's Child has now requested assistance to keep this meme going; perhaps others would like to take a turn putting up the word selection? I have offered to do July. Is anyone keen to put up the words for August? We then choose to use these words in a short story, or a poem. I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story. It’s a fun challenge…why not join in? This week's words are: 1. choke 2. respect 3. smash 4. airplane 5. royal 6. spring and/or: 1. good 2. eye 3. burly 4. alarm 5. stick 6. rebel Here is my story: I'd always been a bit of a rebel , so when 'World Power' suddenly began issuing daily royal blue pills in the spring of 2957, I decided not to take them.  We were all supposed...

from Finger-Lickin' Fifteen , a Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich " All over the field, teams were working at marinating meat and chopping vegetables. The air smelled smoky from applewood and hickory fires, and the barbecue kitchens were colorful with striped awnings and checkered tablecloths. Except for our kitchen. Our kitchen looked like the Beverly Hillbillies were getting ready to barbecue possum." Lula: "all I gotta do is enter the contest as one of them chefs. I bet I could even win." Stephanie: " you can't cook." Lula: "that's true so far, but that could change. I'm real good at eatin' " Today's Thoughts: from our local free weekly newspaper:  " Due in part to the proliferation of shops and staff who need parking for the popular Stuart Road, Dulwich corner, traffic grinds to a halt up much of Grandview as each side is choked with unrestricted parkers, from as early as 7.30am most days....

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday! The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend. just where you'd want a carrot to be!

Where does the time go? There are still 24 hours in each day, yes? why do I feel like there are only half that amount? Seems like every time I turn around another day has slipped into history and it's time to go to bed. Mmmmm, sleeeep..........zzzzzzzz. I'm desperately trying to catch up on reading, I have a stack of books that has a 1/4 inch of dust on top because I just don't get to them. Another stack is shorter by about ten books. My kindle lies idle while I'm reading and commenting on blogs, writing my own new post, reading a book while pages load.  There's a crossword puzzle waiting to be done, and a whole book of code crackers to be worked out. Two books actually, I bought a new one, then found the old one. There's cooking to be done, kitchen clean up, washing of clothes. I spend more time than I'd like staring at my pots of succulents, wondering where I'm going to plant each one. I don't have a plan for that, there are so many other thi...

A funny man my K, one of those annoying people who would spring out of bed, instantly awake, cheery and whistling or singing. I'm the type who drags herself from under the covers, manages to get through the day and starts waking up properly sometime after lunch.  But we muddled along.  It helped that he was in the Army and away a lot. I could set my own routine. Get everything done early and mostly on auto-pilot, spend the afternoons reading until it was time to start dinner.  Somewhere in those years I birthed and we raised four babies; when he got out of the Army he had difficulty settling into civilian life, but I thought he was managing, until I realised he wasn't. We divorced somewhere along the line and he had another daughter, which brings me to the point of this little tale.  Said daughter is now 19 and was home last night when K suddenly experienced a heart attack. She drove him to hospital; two hours later he was in recovery with two brand new stents in...

Welcome back to Sunday Selections! This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs. The rules are very simple:- 1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title 2. link back to me, River , somewhere in your post 3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted. 4. hop on over to Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.   Andrew often joins in too, but not this time, he is off on a holiday up in the northern hemisphere, hopefully gathering lots of photos to share with us on his return. I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I have more photos of those concrete "trees" I featured last week. Now it's confession time: I didn't get around to finding out more about them, why they are there, ...