Monthly Archives: April 2017

I found the opening to the yellow jacket hole!

I just took the giant pruners out to the west woods to try cutting palmetto fronds away from the one above where I think yellow jacket nest is. Sure enough I cut the fronds away and there is a hole in the ground at the base of the one palmetto trunk. It is less than 3 feet away where the hanging zapper was and I don’t see any yellow jackets around it. I’m going to carefully and little by little clear out the pine thatch that has fallen into the palmettoes. That was what I was doing when I got stung a couple of months ago. Now I will be careful and do one small area at a time and be on the lookout for them. I will try each sunset putting the zapper up to see if I can find where they are. It’s no fun stomping around in the woods if I think they’re are yellow jackets hiding.

RELATED:  No yellow jackets yet

 

 

I wonder what he can see that I can’t see?

Did you ever have everyone around you see something you couldn’t see, and you were the last to know it?

Not everything is visible to the naked eye.

There is so much more than we know, waiting to be known.

Learn to state your position without slamming the opponent

It is absolutely astonishing to me that grown adults don’t know how to put a few sentences together in support of their position without blaming and name-calling someone else, and making mean spirited and derisive comments. Unfrknbelievable. And to all my Facebook friends who continue to blame Clinton and Obama for all the world’s woes, please unfriend me now. It got old years ago. Now you just sound bitter about everything and I know that’s not who you are. But I’m as tired of hearing it as I am sure you are tired of hearing my hopeful optimism. As you were.

Just rearranged the contents of my freezer. Frozen fruit up top with lemongrass, ginger, chili peppers. Tv dinners 2nd shelf. Proteins 3rd shelf (chicken breast, fish, turkey meatballs, turkey sausage.) 4th shelf bags of veggies (green beans, peas, mixed veg, mini corns on the cob.) Lower pull out rack is for all the breads and frozen dumplings and raviolis (yeh, that drawer is way too full.) Afterward I looked and saw how straight it was and wondered why I’ve been thinking it was too crowded. Then I turned around and saw the one pound bags of culinary seeds that I’d taken out last night and not put back yet. They’ll have to go back in bottom refrigerator tray. More than half the stuff in my refrigerator is either condiments or pantry items. This is Florida, everything is subject to humidity unless it’s in an airtight container. My refrigerator is the most air tight container I’ve found.

If you are an adult living in your parents’ home and they’re paying all your bills, consider it a small price to pay to follow their rules. Do your best not to take advantage. Don’t put undue burden on them, don’t make them pick up after you, don’t make them have to remind you about chores, don’t request expensive supplies.  There are a million ways you can help around the house and yard, even if it’s just to be extra kind and ask if they need anything, help clean up after meals, keep your space clean and orderly. Don’t make them worry about you. If you don’t feel it’s honor enough to share time with your parents in their older years, think of them as two graciously generous roommates whose pleasure it is to provide for you when you asked.  Treat them with respect and gratitude no matter how they treat you. Karma will repay you in huge ways. Or, you can figure out a way to move out and do it on your own.

We’re allowed to pick and choose to form beliefs

A Facebook friend gave another heck for posting an image of Buddha saying that is not in line with her typical posts about angels and God, that some things are not the same.  I commented, “I understand confusion over it. I am not a Buddhist but I lean toward Buddhist thought. I am not a Hindu but I have many Hindu practices. I don’t call myself a Christian because the evangelicals hijacked that word.
. . I grew up with Catholics and going to Catholic Church. I spent years in a monastic community that most would call a cult. I don’t consider the Bible the word of God since it’s been editorially suppressed and revised by politicians throughout all millenia. I know God exists, I know angels exist. I’m sure the above sounds like many different topics.
. . What I have found in my lifetime is that I am allowed to pick and choose from the different socially acceptable belief systems to find something that fits what I know to be true according to my own personal experience.
. . My meditation altar — my entire home actually — is full of Hindu deities as well as a huge poster and statues of Buddha, several pictures of Jesus, various Saints and other sacred art. I do not find that any of it conflicts with any other of it.”

Kindle Fire keeps you signed in to Amazon

An irksome thing about the Kindle Fire is that it keeps you continually signed into your Amazon account. That means anybody who picks up your Kindle Fire can order something from Amazon and have it charged to your payment method. The only way to sign out of your Amazon account is to de-register the device, after which you can’t use it. ♡♡ So treat your Kindle Fire the same way you’d treat your wallet. Don’t leave it lying around where anyone can pick it up. ♡♡ BTW, I keep no payment methods on my phone. I also treat my phone the same as my wallet: no one touches it but me.

Dear World, we’re sorry.

A reminder that we can still be happy no matter who is or is not in power, no matter who is or is not impeached. Sure, it would be nice if there was an election do-over, but the only thing we can ever be sure of is change. The secret to life is to take what you have right in front of you and turn it into something you can be happy with.

Angry friends please: your anger, your bitterness and resentment is slowly poisoning your system and clouding your thought. What you wish upon your “enemy” is absolutely what comes back to you in the form of your physical health and outward living conditions. When you give yourself a stroke, you will have no loved ones to look after you if you alienate them all with your hateful actions. Learn to control it, learn to let it go, learn to move on, learn to forgive.