An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.  Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed-circuit television.  During the period he neither ate nor drank and did not go to the toilet.  “We still do not know how he survives,” neurologist Sudhir Shah said after the experiment.  “It is still a mystery what kind of phenomenon this is.” Continue reading →

GOOD THING TO KNOW:  New Law: If a patrol car is pulled over to the side of the road, you have to change to the next lane (away from the stopped vehicle) or slow down by 20 mph. Every state except Hawaii , Maryland and D.C. has this law.  In California , the “Move-over” law became operative on January 1, 2010.   A friend’s son got a ticket for this recently. A police car (turned out it was 2 police cars) was on the side of the road giving a ticket to someone else. He slowed down to pass but did not move into the other lane. The second police car immediately pulled him over and gave him a ticket. He had never heard of the law. It is a fairly new law that states if any emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, if you are able, you are to move into the far lane.   The cost of the ticket was $754, with 3 points on your license and a mandatory court appearance. Please let everyone you know that drives about this new law. It is true, see details at the following web address: http://www.moveoveramerica.com/

I just saw a new episode of The Real Housewives of New York City.  I see that, like the other Real Housewives shows, much of the dialogue is contrived as everyone “sets the record straight” to explain how horribly they were edited to look on last year’s show.  Alex McCord had it right when she called Jill Zarin a mean girl acting like she was in high school.  But it’s not just Jill, it’s most of the women on most of the reality shows.  And what’s the other show?  Basketball Wives!  The cat fighting, the gossiping. the posturing, the one-upmanship.  I can only watch a few minutes of this type of show.  I haven’t been able to make myself turn on a moment of the Real Housewives of New Jersey yet this season.  Except for Jacquline Laurita who minds her own business, the others are pretty scary: back-biting, vicious and vindictive.  I just don’t vibrate there at all.  It just seems mean spirited and cruel, and I don’t really see the point in that.  What’s funny to me is that these women don’t seem to notice that they are just the same as the ones they gossip and complain about.  When I come across a mirror, I look into it long enough to see myself. fix what needs fixing and move on.

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Galpal Shannon Burnett of Conscious Living Partnership came by yesterday and we had the most fun time catching up together.   I like when I need to meet with friends and we have tea at my place.  It’s more relaxed and we have complete privacy and no interruptions.  Plus I get to bring out all my teas and honeys and stevia and neat saucers and teapots.  I’d made some iced raspberry clementine tea in case we wanted iced.  We first toasted with white grape juice in my best crystal, with fresh mulberries floating on top.  I told her they were from my tree, then I took her on the yard tour.  We walked right into the tree and nibbled mulberries right off the branches. We’d kind of limbo under the branch and catch it in our teeth.  They are so sweet right now, and more of them are ripe every day. Continue reading →

I had a really good time in the garden yesterday morning.  A gal pal came by to get some plants for her yard.  Since the big shade is over my house once again after the freeze, I had all sorts of plants that needed full sun and had to be dug up and moved.  So we’re moving them to her yard.  I get a lot of enjoyment out of my yard.  It can be as much work as I want it to be, and as much fun as I want it to be.  At this point, I seldom buy new plants, I’m usually just moving them from one place in the yard to another.  That in itself can be a full time job. Continue reading →

Great. I just listened to voice mail and got today’s Bright House message that says sometime between 1:00am and 6:00am the phone, internet and cable tv will all go down for 2-3 hours while they do their routine maintenance.  Oh good, the time I use the internet the most, and about the only time I get to watch tv if I’m going to.  Thanks, Bright House.