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Leap

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Every cloud has I silver lining.....God I hope that's true.

Tess

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
<Doing the please stop raining dance>

Leap

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kady

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Lance, don't we all die eventually? Otherwise, the other million are immortal?

Lancecrossfire

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The others just die of something else! LOL