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Leap | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:21 am     Sorry to hear about your flooding. We have a wet basement, as well. It is nothing alarming; towels do the trick. But, if it rains anymore, we will have to move everything out. I will be thinking about you and chanting to the sun gods. |
Tess | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:25 am     Every cloud has I silver lining.....God I hope that's true. |
Tess | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:32 am     Oh, no, Leap. You're wet, too???? We're way past the towel stage and it's still raining hard here. Gee, I love Minnesota. I'm trying not to mourn the loss of some of Sweetie Cake's baby things I was saving. The normal things I can handle but the sentimental things are tugging at my heart as they get thrown out. I'm sure I'll shed a tear or two in the night but gotta run now. I have to stop every few minutes and take a rest. Oh, and CHANT LOUDER PLEASE. THE GODS ARE NOT LISTENING. |
Willi | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:47 am     <Doing the please stop raining dance> |
Leap | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 02:35 pm     Guess what, Tess? I was just listening to the weather on the radio and the guy said the rivers are going to re-crest. <insert sigh here> On a positive note, the weather is supposed to be getting better this week. And, there were just a pair of ducks in my front yard (and I live right in the middle of Minneapolis). Sorry to hear about the momentos. I know I would be sad if I lost all my Xmas ornaments. |
Grod | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 03:39 pm     Karuuna, Fires of Spring is one of the best books i ever read. I remember that quote. I have the hardcopy of it. you reminded me to dig it out and reread it. I liked when he stood looking out to the river thinking a thousand years from now, someone else will stand at the exact spot. many many good lessons in that book. i think that is probably one of the best books Mitchener wrote. here is my two thought for the day: humourous thought: "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." .....Harry Hershfield, American Comedian "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair" ......George Burns |
Tess | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 04:05 pm     Hey, Leap, if you see a break in the clouds out your window, could you please send it just a little bit south. Pretty please?? We're almost a mile from that pesky Minnesota River so we thought we were safe. The problem is still the rain water just pouring right through the basement walls and up through the floor. We had everything re-lanscaped so this wouldn't happen again. Now I'm to the point where I don't even open the boxes before I throw them out. I'm seeing in the news what's going on in Duluth from the ice storm and Des Moines from the Mississippi so I guess we're the lucky ones. I just need to call BFI for a special trash pick up ASAP. Ooops, just saw a house in Eden Prairie and their entire basement wall collapsed. WOW. At least ours is still holding, leaking but holding. There's just one major crack and it's not even leaking there. You have ducks?? So do we. Every spring we have a pair of mallards that make a nest somewhere in my garden. We love watching the eggs hatch. We had a robin build a nest in a hanging planter of impatiens last year, too. Stay dry. I'll be back. |
Karuuna | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 04:12 pm     Grod, I've always loved Michener, have all his books (along with about a billion other books!). Have you read his autobiography "The World My Home?" Fascinating man, I'm sorry he's not around any more to keep me thinking! Maybe I'll go stand by a river, and just reflect on who else will stand there after me a thousand years from now. |
Grod | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 06:56 pm     LOL karuuna, i think i will do the same at my river. yes i have all his books also. (and a billion other books) i love reading. |
Twiggyish | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 07:02 pm     I loved Michener, too. His book on South Africa (the name escapes me) was great. I love how he delved into the prehistory and then built the characters. |
Karuuna | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 07:54 pm     twiggy -- he was a master at doing thorough research of both era and area he wrote about, made his books so vividly detailed and believable... grod - i love to read too, but I don't indulge myself in fiction too often these days. Maybe I should spoil myself a little and start doing that more! |
Grod | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:33 am     i find if a person stays away from the Harlequin type books, there are many great fictional books with good lessons,values and morals. i read both fiction and non-fiction, equally. |
Tess | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:50 am     from time to time while looking at the sun, the clouds come to give you rest. (don't know who wrote this haiku but I learned it in highschool -- seems appropriate somehow for today) |
Tess | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:54 am     ooops-- I think that was supposed to be.... from time to time while looking at the MOON, the clouds come to give you rest. sorry 'bout that. I'm sure we learned it as moon not sun but either seems to work. The premise still holds. |
Nancy091158 | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 08:44 am     "The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces" -- Source Unknown "A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did." -- Anonymous "You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you." -- Dr. Robert Anthony "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy |
Wink | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 08:52 am     "Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly." "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." --H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
Karuuna | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 09:29 am     "It is at the very core of human nature to blame other people; it is fundamental self-preservation to try to escape accountability. You don't want things to be your responsibility, so you will go any extreme of rationalization and justification to explain why they are not." "... but when you set out to find the causes to your problems in other people, you'll never find them, because they aren't there. They are in you." Phil McGraw, Life Strategies |
Wink | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 09:33 am     Kar Dr. Phil has become one of my all time favourite "tell it like it is" guys. He's so full of common sense and has a great delivery. Kinda cute too altho I don't know if Moon would let me put him in the Hunka Hunka category. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 09:36 am     Grod, it depends on the reason for reading. Although I don't read Harlequin Romances, I know people who find them interesting. Kar, that is what I love about Michener. I also read his book, Hawaii. |
Max | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 09:40 am     Dr. Phil ROCKS! I'm trying to work through the "Life Strategies" book. The exercises are very challenging. Wink, I don't think Dr. Phil is a hunka hunka, but he's definitely a cuddly wuddly! |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:21 am     Your chances of dying are one in a million if you... smoke 1.4 cigarettes eat 40 tablespoons of peanut butter eat 100 charcoal broiled steaks spend 2 days breathing the air in New York City drive 40 miles in a car fly 2500 miles in a jet canoe for 6 minutes receive 10 mrem of radiation |
Flint | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:25 am     Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Kady | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:28 am     If you must choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing an evil. ---Jerry Garcia |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:28 am     Lance, don't we all die eventually? Otherwise, the other million are immortal? |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:31 am     The others just die of something else! LOL |
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