July 10, 2006
Tiger Lilies (Grrrrrr....rrr)
I just wanted to publish a pretty picture or two this morning, and when I pushed my usual button, I found that my publishing platform, Moveable Type, had changed its format. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to put up a new entry. I have a rigid learning style, no doubt a compensation for some undiagnosed learning disability of yore. Something like this makes me want to take an ax to my computer.
I already awoke unhappy at 3 AM this morning, having been bullied by a contractor yesterday into boxing in beautiful hand hewn beams in a very old house that's in the middle of restoration. The decision was reversed this afternoon, you will be glad to know, but not without angst.
My cellphone died too. They told me it was fixed at the Verizon Store, but it wasn't, and I need a new phone which they didn't have in stock. I have to run around town tomorrow, in blogging time, to pick up a new one at another location.
The spokes on the front wheel of my new bike started to pop, (the back wheel has already been replaced for a similar flaw). Yesterday I was riding the three speed "English racer" I had in high school, leaving the bike path, when I crashed into a bespandexed bike jock , whom I was trying to avoid, thus providing a lesson to a nine year old whose mother used our collision as a warning to him not to enter said path at breakneck speed. I fell off the old clunker in front of a rather large audience, and smashed up my knuckles (not punching him out, unfortunately).
I am told that Mercury is in retrograde.
I have three wonderful friends who are having health crises, all of whom thought their problems were resolved, only to find that they need further treatment. Now that's something to complain about.
Shut your mouth now, Dakota, and put up the pretty pictures.
Photo note #1: A day lily posed before my neighbor's tipped over blue garbage can. Excellent prop.
Photo note #2: A day lily with milkweed in full bloom
My dear Dakota,
Thank you for these very beautiful flower pics...I, for one, never tire of them. I'm sorry, though, to read about your fall from the bike. (Better than a fall from grace, I guess, which seems more common nowadays.) Hope you are not too banged up.
Love, Mrs. W
Ah Mrs. W.
Thank you for asking -- I have blue knuckles rather than white, and am otherwise unscathed -- which is rather a miracle, given my tendency toward cronehood. Heaven only knows what it did to the old vibration though.
Now that I think of it, this is about the third time I have fallen dramatically without dire consequences. Hmmm...mm?
Falling from grace is quite another matter. I hardly ever reached the first rung of the grace ladder, so such falls are also inconsequential.
I can't keep the week straight, but are you corresponding from this continent? I shall post some pretty flowers especially for you.
Love D
Posted by: Dakota at July 11, 2006 07:17 PMDakota dear,
I am still on this continent. I leave on Friday for ten days. I don't know if they have internet access in the Wales countryside, but I will check it out. Glad to hear that you are not too badly injured.
Love to you, as always. Mrs. W