Month: February 2003

Miniature Roses

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HerGardenWeb.comArticle at HerGardenWeb.

I’ve bought two beautiful miniature roses this year. One isn’t doing so well. I think it wants to hybernate. Silly rose, it’s nearly Spring now.

HerGardenWeb needs a new site manager. I’d like to do it, I’m tempted to do it but how could I do it? Soon my head is going to start spinning around.

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Rarely Living

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” –Oscar Wilde”The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” –Mark Twain

“There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”

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Nothing

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I logged in to post something. But, my brain is sleeping and I can’t remember what I was going to post.

Outside we are getting freezing rain. I wish I had gone out today, earlier. The weather people were blabbing about freezing rain all day and it was clear. It started after dark and now I don’t think I want to risk going out tomorrow.… Read the rest

High Flight

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Backwash – Content – Growing Up All Over Again

High Flight
by John Gillespie McGee, Jr.
No. 412 Squadron, RCAF
Killed over Europe in 1941, age 20.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds–and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of–wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.

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