WARRIORS GET IT DONE!!!
The Daily News
1 WHEW!!!
2 Good to see, Golden State. Now let's put these guys away.
3 Am I allowed to give Steph Curry a little advice?
4 Next time you want a hot dog, don't jump into the seats.
5 Keep your head in the game, son. My guess? Someone probably talked to you. My guess is that it was yourself. Otherwise, GREAT game. Way to step up.
6 Gawd it was nice not having to pace and worry.
7 Good times.
8 Anybody lookin'?
9 Moving On, Part One: I got brave yesterday and decided to go out in the heat and prune my lemon tree.
10 <basketball buzzer>
11 Actually, I DID end up doing that. The foul was for even thinking of doing that mid-day.
12 Our tree up here in Sac gives off wonderful lemons. They have a tangerine flair that can't be beat. I always loved having a lemon tree in San Jose, so this is nothing new to me.
13 Nor are the spikes and thorns.
14 On a hot day.
15 I tried like heck to get my mind into a Zen zone, so I wouldn't be cussing.
16 I also wore long sleeves and a large cowboy hat.
17 I'm REALLY glad I did that. I have a fountain sitting in the shade of the tree, and lemons fall behind the fountain. The long sleeves kept thorn-pricks to a minimum. The cowboy hat shaded my face and kept me from getting spiked in the head. Good protection. Always worked. Worked again.
18 If you are new to fruit trees, listen up: you definitely should make it easy to clean up the fruit on the ground.
19 Although I hadn't stayed after the lemons as well as I would have liked, I still kept after them pretty well.
20 When our Phoebe was still alive, I made it a point to get the lemons the same time I would pick up after her. It was an easy reminder, so I never had melted lemons.
21 Nothing worse.
22 I did manage to tackle the task yesterday, but I got WAY dehydrated in the process.
23 AND the clean-up ran into the Warrior game. I missed most of the first half, which I know is pretty normal behavior for basketball fans, but I enjoy watching complete games. I think you get a better sense of the game's rhythm.
24 Not worrying about the game was nice. I've plenty of real life things to worry about; I don't want sports to turn me into a madman.
25 So.
26 It felt nice doing yard work two days running. Yesterday I began the gardening with a head start. I wrote about the tech of gardening yesterday. Ironically, right after I sent that DN to post, I went back outside to continue getting things going.
27 The first thing I noticed was that my rose bush was way overgrown.
28 I figured it was a new day, and that I could probably knock that thing out in no time.
29 <yet another basketball buzzer> Stay with me here. The plot thickens. = ) <--------- sideways smiley-dude-which-pre-dates-most-pre-fab-smileys-and-emoticons-that-are-now called emojis.
30 After I got most of it trimmed, my trimmer cut into the extension cord. It popped and crackled. I ALMOST cussed, but held off. All it really meant was a ride to the store.
31 As long as I was going back to Home Depot, I figured, I might as well buy a few more things. Ever do that? The result:
32 $200, and climbing. I got out of there with yet another mini-story to share, but we'll get to that. Meanwhile...
33 I got home and I found myself once again standing in front of that lemon tree. The Ying and the Yang of things, I'm telling you.
34 I got to goof with the babies for a few more hours, but after they all left, I walked back out to the yard. It was dark. I had the fountains all running, but I looked down and noticed that bunch of the solar lights didn't work. So I got in the car and zipped back to Home Depot. This was around 9:30 last night. The last time I did this, I decided to walk around the store 'til closing. That way I could log some walking miles.
35 <basketball buzzer> I walked around for about six minutes when I found that each aisle was blocked by the Home Depot Palace Guard. I tried going down one aisle and this guy stepped in front of me and said, "Whatdya need?"
36 Uh...really? I told him, and he walked me over to the solar lights. I had wanted a specific kind, but he clearly didn't want to help too much. It was weird.
37 After he took his mopey self out of my vision, a speaker said, "Attention Home Depot shoppers. It is now 9:55. The store will be closing in five minutes. Please take all your purchases to the front of the store."
38 It was just 9:55. I figured they must have stayed open on Friday nights only or something. I grabbed a bunch of out-of-box solar lights from a bin, and a package of paper towels, and then hoofed it to the front. I didn't want to make anybody who worked there angry.
39 Midway to the cashier, I felt an oddness occurring in my left foot. I looked down. I had kept socks on with my Tevas while gardening. I do that so that my feet will be protected from drying out...eh, long story.
40 Shorter story: my left sock protruded about three inches forward, exposing my heal to all sorts of Home Depot-style germs. I tried loosening the Velcro, but discovered more workers walking immediately behind me, a light wave, but certainly a hint to keep moving.
41 I decided the fastest way outta there was to take both socks off, re-strap my Teevs, put the socks in my back pocket and proceed to checkout. I did, and the strategy worked. I got to the front, went to self-checkout (I had had it with people at that point) where some really happy girl came flying at my cart with one of those cash-register guns. Within minutes, I had all my stuff and got out the door. I think it was around 10:01.5. p.m. I looked up for a bin of water and a table of cookies, but alas, there were none. Just a few night crickets chirping away in the distance.
42 The relative quiet calmed me. I felt sort of artistic in a way, and wanted to write a song about what had just taken place.
43 My logical self climbed out of my body, put its right hand through my left shoulder and then said said to me, "Dude. Go home." He reminded me of Groot.
44 All the way back I couldn't get the image of the elongated sock out of my head. I was lucky I didn't get into a wreck.
45 When I finally arrived home, I unloaded all the stuff, grabbed a little coffee and a few more chocolates, and put on my cricket effect from You Tube. It's the one that just yesterday I had declared the greatest cricket sounds ever.
Turned out that when I had the crickets loud enough to hear, they buzzed and bumped it with bees or something. So my disclaimer for today is that on second examination, the cricket effect was still pretty nice if played low, but only because it had birds chirping as well. It reminded me of a warm summer night back home.
46 Nostalgia works sometimes.
47 Just does.
48 Thanks for listening.
49 Moving On, Part Two: Wanna hear another joke?
50
51
52 Okay.
53 So a Sunday school teacher asked her young class, "Why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One boy answered, "Because people are sleeping."
54
55 Aw, c'mon!
56
57 <crickets>
58 I gottago.
59 Have a GREAT day.
60 See you again.
61 Peace.
9 Moving On, Part One: I got brave yesterday and decided to go out in the heat and prune my lemon tree.
10 <basketball buzzer>
11 Actually, I DID end up doing that. The foul was for even thinking of doing that mid-day.
12 Our tree up here in Sac gives off wonderful lemons. They have a tangerine flair that can't be beat. I always loved having a lemon tree in San Jose, so this is nothing new to me.
13 Nor are the spikes and thorns.
14 On a hot day.
15 I tried like heck to get my mind into a Zen zone, so I wouldn't be cussing.
16 I also wore long sleeves and a large cowboy hat.
17 I'm REALLY glad I did that. I have a fountain sitting in the shade of the tree, and lemons fall behind the fountain. The long sleeves kept thorn-pricks to a minimum. The cowboy hat shaded my face and kept me from getting spiked in the head. Good protection. Always worked. Worked again.
18 If you are new to fruit trees, listen up: you definitely should make it easy to clean up the fruit on the ground.
19 Although I hadn't stayed after the lemons as well as I would have liked, I still kept after them pretty well.
20 When our Phoebe was still alive, I made it a point to get the lemons the same time I would pick up after her. It was an easy reminder, so I never had melted lemons.
21 Nothing worse.
22 I did manage to tackle the task yesterday, but I got WAY dehydrated in the process.
23 AND the clean-up ran into the Warrior game. I missed most of the first half, which I know is pretty normal behavior for basketball fans, but I enjoy watching complete games. I think you get a better sense of the game's rhythm.
24 Not worrying about the game was nice. I've plenty of real life things to worry about; I don't want sports to turn me into a madman.
25 So.
26 It felt nice doing yard work two days running. Yesterday I began the gardening with a head start. I wrote about the tech of gardening yesterday. Ironically, right after I sent that DN to post, I went back outside to continue getting things going.
27 The first thing I noticed was that my rose bush was way overgrown.
28 I figured it was a new day, and that I could probably knock that thing out in no time.
29 <yet another basketball buzzer> Stay with me here. The plot thickens. = ) <--------- sideways smiley-dude-which-pre-dates-most-pre-fab-smileys-and-emoticons-that-are-now called emojis.
30 After I got most of it trimmed, my trimmer cut into the extension cord. It popped and crackled. I ALMOST cussed, but held off. All it really meant was a ride to the store.
31 As long as I was going back to Home Depot, I figured, I might as well buy a few more things. Ever do that? The result:
32 $200, and climbing. I got out of there with yet another mini-story to share, but we'll get to that. Meanwhile...
33 I got home and I found myself once again standing in front of that lemon tree. The Ying and the Yang of things, I'm telling you.
34 I got to goof with the babies for a few more hours, but after they all left, I walked back out to the yard. It was dark. I had the fountains all running, but I looked down and noticed that bunch of the solar lights didn't work. So I got in the car and zipped back to Home Depot. This was around 9:30 last night. The last time I did this, I decided to walk around the store 'til closing. That way I could log some walking miles.
35 <basketball buzzer> I walked around for about six minutes when I found that each aisle was blocked by the Home Depot Palace Guard. I tried going down one aisle and this guy stepped in front of me and said, "Whatdya need?"
36 Uh...really? I told him, and he walked me over to the solar lights. I had wanted a specific kind, but he clearly didn't want to help too much. It was weird.
37 After he took his mopey self out of my vision, a speaker said, "Attention Home Depot shoppers. It is now 9:55. The store will be closing in five minutes. Please take all your purchases to the front of the store."
39 Midway to the cashier, I felt an oddness occurring in my left foot. I looked down. I had kept socks on with my Tevas while gardening. I do that so that my feet will be protected from drying out...eh, long story.
40 Shorter story: my left sock protruded about three inches forward, exposing my heal to all sorts of Home Depot-style germs. I tried loosening the Velcro, but discovered more workers walking immediately behind me, a light wave, but certainly a hint to keep moving.
41 I decided the fastest way outta there was to take both socks off, re-strap my Teevs, put the socks in my back pocket and proceed to checkout. I did, and the strategy worked. I got to the front, went to self-checkout (I had had it with people at that point) where some really happy girl came flying at my cart with one of those cash-register guns. Within minutes, I had all my stuff and got out the door. I think it was around 10:01.5. p.m. I looked up for a bin of water and a table of cookies, but alas, there were none. Just a few night crickets chirping away in the distance.
43 My logical self climbed out of my body, put its right hand through my left shoulder and then said said to me, "Dude. Go home." He reminded me of Groot.
44 All the way back I couldn't get the image of the elongated sock out of my head. I was lucky I didn't get into a wreck.
45 When I finally arrived home, I unloaded all the stuff, grabbed a little coffee and a few more chocolates, and put on my cricket effect from You Tube. It's the one that just yesterday I had declared the greatest cricket sounds ever.
Turned out that when I had the crickets loud enough to hear, they buzzed and bumped it with bees or something. So my disclaimer for today is that on second examination, the cricket effect was still pretty nice if played low, but only because it had birds chirping as well. It reminded me of a warm summer night back home.
46 Nostalgia works sometimes.
47 Just does.
48 Thanks for listening.
49 Moving On, Part Two: Wanna hear another joke?
50
51
52 Okay.
53 So a Sunday school teacher asked her young class, "Why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One boy answered, "Because people are sleeping."
54
55 Aw, c'mon!
56
57 <crickets>
58 I gottago.
59 Have a GREAT day.
60 See you again.
61 Peace.
~H~
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