another week finished

Thank you to everyone who has left
comments here on the blog. It's wonderful
to hear from you.

It's been a very busy month already.
The Knitting Companion is all set for summer
with his short hair-do.
I have several deadlines that have all been
changed to ... Now.
So the Companion and i are very busy.
He's very zen about all the deadlines.
I'm not.




The poppies have started to open,
but it's raining today and the lovely
peach coloured blossoms are staying shut.
The Companion has some nice Queen Anne's Lace
in the garden.

here's something to think about

"You are a champion of champions,
genetically speaking, because you are
the product of an inconceivably
complex web of ancestors, spiraling back
for billions of years into the primordial
ooze, not a single individual of
which ever failed to grow to maturity
and beget viable offspring while
most other creatures around them,
including many of their brothers,
sisters, and cousins, faded away and
the majority eventually disappeared
forever into extinction. If your ancestors
hadn't been such top performers
that they were 100 percent successful
in procreation, your ancestral lines
of descent would be broken
and you could not exist."

--Guy Murchie, *The Seven Mysteries of Life*

Botanical Update on tuesday

This thorny bunch of Greenery
in a "garden cage"
is Soon going to become a delicate
peach coloured bunch of poppies.



here, next to some visiting Queen Anne's Lace,
is one of the buds.






Now time for the Peony update.



The first blossom is getting
ready to open.

The Knitting Companion had his summer
hair cut yesterday. He's now sporting Very
short hair.

in the meantime,
he's been very sleepy getting over
the whole ordeal.





shhhh .... sleepy puppy boy.

from Georgia

from Georgia Nicols ....


Weekly Horoscope: Sunday June 4, 2006

All Signs: (Eastern Time Zone)

Human history has many calendars
(Gregorian, Mayan, Muslim, Tibetan, Chinese etc.)
They're all tied in with the cycles of
heavenly bodies. (Just like the Oscars.)
In one system, this lunar month
(May 27 - June 25) and the time of Full Moon
in particular, (Sunday, June 11) are unusually
auspicious times when whatever we say and
do are hugely multiplied in the future. Shee!
Personally, I'm with Sidney Poitier in
"Lilies of the Field." He didn't believe in God,
but when asked why he helped the nuns, he said,
" It's insurance. To me, life is here on this
earth -- I can't see further, so I can't believe further.
But, if they're right about the hereafter -- I've paid
my insurance." Therefore, play it safe and grab
every opportunity to practice generosity and
kindness because what goes around,
comes around. (Just like the flu.)