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What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread)
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Joy H., Group Founder
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May 30, 2016 12:24PM
PPS-The word,
mnemonic
, comes from the Greek word,
"mnemonikos"
, which means: of or pertaining to memory".
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Here is a list of words which begin with MNE....http://www.onelook.com/?w=mne*&ls=a
It's a strange spelling!
it is strange as I never recognized any on the list.
Too complicated for me; it is easier for me to make up my own way to remember words.
Nina wrote: "Too complicated for me; it is easier for me to make up my own way to remember words."Nina, that's usually the best way because it works the way your mind works.
I have the darndest time remembering the difference between Budapest and Bucharest!
My personal nmemonic for those places is:
The capital of ROMANIA is Bucharest. [Hint: The Romans need rest.]
The capital of HUNGARY is Budapest . [Hint: Hunger is a pest.]
But I can't remember the mnemonics! LOL
Hello everyone. I'm posting this message via my new kindle fire tablet. Every day i learn a little bit more about how the tablet works. Of course i'm typing with one finger. It's a bother to start the word "i'm with a capital letter. How do am I supposed to do that? I was able to do it because they provided me with the word by showing it as a suggestion. They keep suggesting words for me and they are usually right.By the way, I made great use of the search option today, hunting for sections of a the book, Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books. I searched for the name leonid tarassuk, an man she learned interesting things about when she was an editor.
Well, as you saw in my previous post, there are still things I have to learn about how to capitalize names using the fire tablet keyboard. I was unable to capitalize the name of leonid tarassuk.
Good luck Joy. Hang in there as it seems you are doing fine now.
Thank you, Nina. I'm definitely more comfortable with the Fire Tablet nowadays but I know there's a long way to go. I have so many questions about it.
Fortunately Joy for questions there are usually answers.
I finally got the woods paths weedeated. I did one tank last night & 3 tonight. Takes about 30 minutes to use up a tank of gas, but the temp was in the mid 70s, so it wasn't bad. The spiders haven't geared up yet, thankfully. I hate getting cobwebs in my face while weedeating. I should probably do one or two more tanks tomorrow night around the outside of some parts of the fence. I sprayed it, but it needs a good knocking back.In between, I managed to finish another snail puzzle & am working on a shape puzzle, too. This one is made out of an old piece of 2x6 that I had around. Interesting project.
Jim, it's interesting to see the verb, "weedeating". I've heard of "weed-wacking" but weedeating is new to me.Today I trimmed the dead wood off our scrawny rose bushes. As scrawny as they are, they give us beautiful red roses every year. I try to water them with rose food whenever I can (according to the directions of course). But even when I don't feed them, they produce flowers. They're hardy for sure!
The first weedeaters I knew of were by that brand name "WeedEater", so we turned that into the verb. Most people I know use it, although some interchange the two. Not a big deal. The originals only used the nylon string, so wasn't much good in heavy weeds, but it was good for grass. I first used one back in the mid 70s. We rented it for a fence line we needed to paint with creosote. It was such a pain that I wound up using electric fence wire instead of the nylon. It worked great until I got a piece stuck in my shin. Got most of the fence done before that happened & I had to go back to using the stupid nylon string.
I never cared for them until a decade or so later when Stihl or Echo came out with one with a straight bar rather than the original curved one. That used a thicker drive cable which allowed using the nylon or saw blades. (Both were available for the curved bars, but that was too much torque & snapped the cable often.) I typically use the nylon blades with mine, although I have a saw blade for it, too. I had to use that when I was first cleaning up around the place. It lets me cut through trees & branches over an inch thick up to almost 8' in the air.
It's sure an improvement over the first one I used. Mine is the biggest professional model, an FS250, which has a 40cc motor with the bicycle handle bars yet it's only about 15 lbs. It hooks to the right side of my harness that goes over both shoulders & balances really well. I think I paid about $500 for it, but it's been worth every penny. I put in a fair few hard hours with it every year & it still runs great even though its 9 years old.
Joy, Post a picture of your roses after they bloom.
Jim wrote: "The first weedeaters I knew of were by that brand name "WeedEater", so we turned that into the verb. Most people I know use it, although some interchange the two. Not a big deal. The originals on..."
Glad you found one you like, Jim. Sounds like a good one.
Nina wrote: "Joy, Post a picture of your roses after they bloom."I'll try, Nina.
Or you could email me a picture if that proves easier as they sound lovely. Roses were my mother;s favorite. She moved them from house to house and we had a start at our home and by that time they were over fifty years old.
My dad loved roses too. He loved his garden.
"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private," Allen Ginsberg
Good one, Nina. I remember the following from somewhere:QUESTION: "What kind of poetry do you like?"
ANSWER: "I like the kind I can understand."
I'm watching the Tony Awards on CBS-TV!
I love the piano concert. Did any of you have children that took piano lessons and wonder if any children do now??? Five of mine took them and not easy to work in the practice time.
Yes, Nina, three of our four boys took piano lessons and also played instruments in the school orchestra. Only one of them still plays.
I think piano lessons have now gone the way of bowling alleys. There are very few here anymore.
Nina wrote: "I think piano lessons have now gone the way of bowling alleys. There are very few here anymore."I wonder why that is, Nina.
All our kids took riding lessons, two played the clarinet, but it's tough to fit in all the opportunities that the kids had. Time was the biggest factor. Ponies required daily responsibilities maintaining them plus usually one or two trips off the farm in the horse trailer for at least a few hours each week, sometimes entire days or weekends. One of our kids was more into football & motorcycles, so we tried hard to accommodate him & all the kids tried other things at times (gymnastics, Cub Scouts, & such). It was tough with us both working.
Yes, with two working parents outside the home fitting activities would not be easy but sounds as if you did it. We only had one horse in the family and he lived not far from us so I was able to take my youngest daughter there after school most days for her to ride and take care of his needs. Some days I rode also. And if I remember correctly you all sailed. My oldest son once said, "I had an almost perfect childhood." Nice to hear that.
No, I did a bit of sailing as a kid, but mine never did until the oldest bought a sail boat after his divorce. I'm not sure he ever sailed it, though. It had issues. I had a great childhood in some respects. I certainly traveled a lot & had the farm life. My kids had the farm life. That makes for a lot of good memories & taught us all a lot.
Speaking of the past, it seems like all those years flew by. I guess we all did our best at the time. Life has its ups and downs. The important thing is that we survived! :)
Yes, we did survive but there were times I thought I wouldn't and my mother used to say my guardian angel worked overtime. Once I was hospitalized for three months when I was nineteen and was told I might never walk again/I did and raised six children. I had a miracle dr and an overworked angel.
Glad it worked out that way for you, Nina! I think you're a strong person and that story shows it.
We got 1/2" of rain last night!!! We really needed it. I noticed my even my cone flowers wilting in the bank gardens, so I spent a couple of hours watering them, a fairly slow & laborious process. I have a 55 gallon drum with a hose out one hole which I put in the bucket of my tractor lying on its side with the hose down. I fill the drum & let gravity deliver the water. I have to keep the bucket pretty high on some of the banks. I don't do this often. It's a lot easier than lugging buckets, but it took me 4 drums. That's a lot of time & scrambling around. It barely seemed to dampen the ground, too. In some places, water was just disappearing into cracks with no sign of dampening the soil. Still, the flowers all looked better yesterday when I got home.
The storm blew in around 7pm, but it didn't start raining until almost 8pm. Then it poured for a while (about 1/8") before settling down to a steady, soaking rain. Wonderful!!! Best of all, we have a chance for more today. We really needed it. I was spending over an hour each night watering around the house, usually either doing the front or back.
I have so many other things I'd rather be doing than standing around with a water hose, but it makes a huge difference. I planted 5 Lily trees 2 years ago. They look like oriental lilies but they're supposed to get to the size of small trees as they expand each year, although they die back each winter. One in the back that gets a lot of water has a trunk over 2" in diameter this year. A couple along the fence in where I don't water often are about the size of a normal oriental lily, so I'm planning to water them more this year. The blossoms are huge & they're supposed to get more & more as they age. Already gorgeous, they should be stunning.
I think this is what I bought:
http://www.brecks.com/product/classic...
My dear little red bud tree has leaf blight and it will be sprayed but there are two kinds of this disease and so it's a fifty fifty chance it can be cured. Bah!
Many of my redbuds are dying due to a fungus. Nothing to do for them. They tend to get it when stressed. Those with it are the ones in full sun. They're an understory tree, so shouldn't get it. They did well for about 6 years before succumbing.:(
Jim, I wish I could see your garden. It must be beautiful.Sorry to hear about the rose fungus. Hope my scrawny little bushes don't get it. I keep meaning to give them some rose food but haven't been able to get around to it.
We lost our redbud several years ago. I loved that tree so much, and was so sad when it died. I'd like to get another, but after the first experience and reading what Jim said, I doubt that it would live long. I'm still debating on what tree to replace it with, but haven't found the right one yet.Jim - those lily trees look so cool! I might get a few of those for my backyard in a year or two. As soon as the play structure for the kids comes out...
The redbuds that I have planted on the east side of the shop seem to be doing fine. It's when they get direct sunlight from the south & west that really cuts them short, although I don't think they're a long-lived tree. I rarely see an old one, anyway. They're few & far between. The oldest one I've seen was at Longwood Gardens in PA. I don't recall how old it was, but probably no more than 80 considering where it was. It was a foot in diameter at the base, though. Definitely the biggest I've seen. Not very tall.
Joy H. wrote: "Jim, I wish I could see your garden. It must be beautiful.Sorry to hear about the rose fungus. Hope my scrawny little bushes don't get it. I keep meaning to give them some rose food but haven't b..."
Redbud fungus, not rose. I don't do roses. Marg does & she makes sure we buy types that aren't too susceptible to that sort of thing. I forget what they are, though.
As for my garden... I don't have one, but many scattered about. Some are pretty, some are getting there, some are overgrown. If it's a pain to mow near or around, I try to plant weedy flowers next to it or on it, depending.
:)
Joy H. wrote: "Nina wrote: "I think piano lessons have now gone the way of bowling alleys. There are very few here anymore."I wonder why that is, Nina."I think young people are busy "working out." and running in races and don't have time for bowling and have no idea about piano lessons but it seems no one my great grandchildren's age are taking lessons.
I think a lot of the reason less piano lessons are around now is because of entertainment. 100 years & more ago, the piano was a centerpiece of a good home. Now few have them. Someone playing the piano was a good way for everyone to entertain themselves, but now we have so many entertainments that we're driven to distraction. Pianos take up a lot of room & maintenance, too. Try finding someone to tune or fix one now. Keyboards have taken over a little, but even they take up a lot of room.
My husband's uncle was a piano teacher and we used to gather with all of our children and sing along as he played the piano. It was quite moving. My son was quite talented and his piano teacher said he could have been the next Van Clibern and I think she exaggerating but sadly he got tired of recitals and all of that so we let his piano playing go by the wayside. Maybe that was for the best.
Jim wrote: "... Redbud fungus, not rose. ..."OOPS! Thanks, Jim.
Jim wrote: "I think a lot of the reason less piano lessons are around now is because of entertainment. 100 years & more ago, the piano was a centerpiece of a good home. Now few have them. Someone playing the p..."Jim, that is all very true, unfortunately. I've always loved the piano! It's connected to so many wonderful family memories.
Nina wrote: "My husband's uncle was a piano teacher and we used to gather with all of our children and sing along as he played the piano. It was quite moving. My son was quite talented and his piano teacher sai..."My uncle used to visit our house and fill our home with piano music. It was such a happy time!
Jen wrote: "We lost our redbud several years ago. I loved that tree so much, and was so sad when it died. I'd like to get another, but after the first experience and reading what Jim said, I doubt that it woul..."Jenn, it's good to hear from you!
Redbud trees are very prolific around here and especially in the Ozarks in MO/not far away. I am sorry we are having a problem with ours but hopefully it will be fine after it is sprayed.
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