Drifting through life

  Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to them and have a look. My little redheads are still flying flags for Ukraine and now have the blue and yellow candles which they burn for 15 minutes each day. in this terracotta bowl I planted three more of the Caribbean lily bulbs. I found them lying above ground, very dried out and probably dead, in a deserted garden, I had given them to the person living there at the time and to find out he had just thrown them out was disappointing. see the tiny green shoot? it's still alive! and here is a b...

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here ** Next month's prompts will be supplied by Messymimi ** This week's words/prompts are:  1. instruction  2. construction  3. obstruction  4. fuel  5. compassion  6. presentation  and/or:  1. depression  2. craziness  3. seemed  4. house  5. fountain  6. chariot. Here is my story: Muddy water fountained out of the depressions left by the collapsed gazebo behind the house . The yard began to flood...

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1. instruction 2. construction 3. obstruction 4. fuel 5. compassion 6. presentation and/or: 1. depression 2. craziness 3. seemed 4. house 5. fountain 6. chariot use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun. My own offering will be on this blog on Friday

  Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others.   Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to them and have a look.  Elephant's Child may still be on a break. We'll begin today with photos that loaded in the wrong order: a statue I spotted through a garden gate and three views of a totem pole  side two and the top of it, this is standing guard by someone's entrance gate this is the other side of the top section look at what I found inside my celery! slime! I threw those bits out, washed the rest and after tasting, threw out the whole bunch. the base of a bunch of celery ...

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. entice  2. excuse  3. blackbird  4. swaying  5. better  6. mechanical  7. disorder  and/or:  1. peeling  2. clouds  3. scrambled  4. solid  5. curio  6. float  7. fountain Here is my story: (another chapter in the long running saga) Molly heard Terry say "we'll be there as soon as we can" and after he hung up the phone and entered the lounge room, she s...

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1. entice 2. excuse 3. blackbird 4. swaying 5. better 6. mechanical 7. disorder and/or: 1. peeling 2. clouds  3. scrambled 4. solid 5. curio 6. float 7. fountain use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun. My own offering will be on this blog on Friday.

 I read that one of our politicians, (I don't remember his name) is retiring from politics with an annual pension of $270,000  That's right.  Two hundred and seventy thousand smackeroos every single year for the rest of his life! Do I sound jealous?  you betcha.  Well sort of.  I wouldn't like to have a politicians job, with all the infighting, backlash from the public and never having a moment's peace.  But why the humungous pensions? Why can't they retire on the same age pension rates the rest of us retired minions have to live on?