“Life is all about timing… the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable… attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It’s all about timing.”
It is the rainy season. Calling it that is my way of coping so I have few expectations and it stops my whining. Damp and chilly again today as it has been the whole week. I see nothing but grey outside my window: a grey sky and empty grey branches. In the front yard, though, I can see flowers, white flowers. I can also see violets, ancestors of the ones originally from my mother’s garden.
I am sorry for the lack of a music posting the other day. My computer got weird, and I couldn’t get the music to post. It took me all day to figure out a solution. After I figured it out, I did my happy dance and scared Fern a bit. She ran away slunked close to the ground.
I’ve been watching the Red Sox. They have been winning, and the games have been exciting. For home games, the stands are fairly full but the fans are bundled as if for winter. I remember that game in Cleveland where the temperature was about 38˚. It is warmer than that but add damp to the mixture, and it is difficult to stay warm. Even the players are wearing long sleeves and jersey covers for their heads and ears. Xander Bogaerts, the shortstop, is from Aruba. He must think he is living a nightmare.
When I was little, the weather didn’t phase me though I did wish for snow a lot in the winter, more for a snow day than a sledding day. Adults are complainers. Kids take every day as it comes but somehow or other grow up to be people who complain: it’s too cold or too hot, too busy or not busy enough. Ask adults, they’ll tell you there’s never enough time. I don’t know when the change happens, when carefree kids become annoying adults, but I’m thinking it is a by-product of puberty.
I always had more than enough time when I was little. I figure it’s because I had few responsibilities. I had homework but never very much until high school. I had to change into my play clothes every day, but it’s a stretch to call that a responsibility. It took maybe 5 minutes of my time. I managed to fill most of my days and really didn’t notice time passing. I had plenty.
I’m back to having plenty of time sprinkled here and there with a few must-do stuff. I have to food shop, but Peapod delivers. I have to do laundry, but I wait until the last minute to do it and most times it sits in the dryer for a while. Roseanna and Lee come every two weeks to clean. All that’s left for me is to clean the animal dishes, change my bed and sweep a bit in between.
Today’s rain is just rain.
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May 5, 2016 at 1:45 pm
Bad case of the Bright Shinies here today … sun is spillin’ all over everything that’s not protected and makin’ it all sparkly ’n stuff. Where’s my greyness … ?
You’re using OS X ‘El Cap,’ yes? I’ve read quite a few comments from users who are (shall we say) ‘less than happy’ with its performance. Seems they’re not as enthralled with Mr Jony Ives’ ideas re the UI as is the redoutable Mr Cook. Where’s Steve Jobs when we need him? Oh. Right. Never mind …
No b’ball for Homey – at least not ’til World Series time, and then only if Da Yankees are in it. Seriously, are there other teams?
Weather in my Time of Kid-dom was just something that happened. I wasn’t smart enough to understand how or why it happened the way it did or when it did. I know that sometime between when I was a Wee Toddler and a Teenager, N’Awlins went from having four seasons to having only two: Almost Hot and Hotter. Now that I’m in Memphis, I have four seasons again. Go figure.
That whole ‘time’ thing is still etched into my memory by the Twilight Zone episode ‘Time Enough At Last’ with Burgess Meredith. Even when events don’t turn out the way they did for Burgess, it still seems as if things happen to prevent us from enjoying the time we planned for by the time it finally arrives. Again: Go figure.
A bit of a departure from the norm for today’s Musical Interlude: It’s Mr Jeff Beck’s version of the ol’ gospel standard ‘Amazing Grace’ …it’s a tribute song, which he does quite nicely. Enjoy …
May 5, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Richard,
There is another team besides the Red Sox? I didn’t know that. I find it quite astonishing.
We will have a cloudy but warmer day tomorrow. Today it rained quite heavily for a while. Now it is raining less but still raining. It’s in the low 40’s.
Yes, I am using El Cap and have some problems with it. Luckily other people have had the same problems so I usually use my iPad and find a solution. I do prefer a MAC to a PC.
Weather didn’t interrupt my life when I was a kid. It just happened and we went with it. Ghana is one of those hot and hottest countries. Candles melt flat without ever being lit.
I remember the Burgess Meredith one where he as a librarian and hated people. He was in the deepest part of the library and survived a devastating bomb. The only problem was his glasses broke, and he couldn’t read without them.
Beautiful, simple beautiful. It sounds like the essence of the sng.
May 5, 2016 at 8:20 pm
When my iMac hard drive died I took it to the Apple Store where they replaced the hard drive. I asked them to install the best version of OS X for a mid 2010 iMac. They installed Yosemite and I’ve had no issues or problems. Just like my iPad 3 I didn’t upgrade beyond IOS 8. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
May 5, 2016 at 8:30 pm
Bob,
My MAC is being finicky. I’ve being patient but I don’t know for how long I can keep it up.
Did they transfer all your files to the new drive? Was the new drive expensive?
I have to give those some thought before I do something like that.
May 5, 2016 at 9:42 pm
They didn’t transfer my files because I had them all backed up on an external HD using Time Machine. They charged me $250 or so and I just restored the files from the HD when I got it home.
May 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm
Thanks, Bob
That is less expensive than I thought. All my stuff is backed up as well.
May 5, 2016 at 11:58 pm
Kat, this is from the MacInTouch site. It may come in handy if you need to check your certificates. If the links below aren’t active in WordPress, just visit the site link and it’ll take you to the article where they’re live.
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d05may2016
Lists of available trusted root certificates in OS X
The OS X Trust Store contains trusted root certificates that are preinstalled with OS X. About trust and certificates
Each OS X Trust Store listed below contains three categories of certificates:
• Trusted certificates establish a chain of trust that verifies other certificates signed by the trusted roots–for example, to establish a secure connection to a web server. When IT administrators create Configuration Profiles for OS X, these trusted root certificates don’t need to be included.
• Always Ask certificates are untrusted but not blocked. When one of these certificates is used, you’ll be prompted to choose whether or not to trust it.
• Blocked certificates are believed to be compromised and will never be trusted.
OS X Trust Store
• List of available trusted root certificates in OS X El Capitan
• List of available trusted root certificates in OS X Yosemite
• List of available trusted root certificates in OS X Mavericks
May 6, 2016 at 12:07 am
Richard,
Thank you so much. I will do exactly that tomorrow.
Right now I am waiting for the last White Sox out. The Red Sox just beat them 7-3 and took the series 2-1. Your Yankees lost in 10 to Baltimore.
May 5, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Another wonderful day here, sunshine and warm but there’s a weak but slightly cold wind that makes it hard to dress when going for a walk, without the wind it’s almost hot (well spring hot 🙂 ) but when it hits it gets rather cold.
I’ve done very little today, I did pull up some stinging nettles from the woodland aera so now some of my fingers burn badly. It had to be done before they grew too big and I had trilliums grosing close so I had to do it by hand and have no gloves 🙂
Tomorrow I’ll buy a plum tree. I had hoped I could go to my favorite garden center but it turns out they don’t sell the variety I want, well personally I really don’t care what variety I buy but I promised my neighbor to buy a plum tree that helps his tree to get some fruit and Czar is the only one that can grow in my climate zone. I’ve read the plums are good though. I’ll buy some other thiungs onmy way home too but that’sit. Long weekends are made for resting 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
May 5, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Christer,
You and your wonderful days. It is pouring right now, and we won’t get sun until Sunday.
I had a doctor’s appointment for my back and got a referral to the pain clinic where they will decided the best course to take.
I’ve never given fruit trees a thought. I have wondered about strawberries and blueberries. I know they grow well on the Cape, but haven’t done anything about it.
Years ago the cape grew asparagus and more than any other part of the state. I don’t think any is grown now. Turnips do grow and Wellfleet (I think it’s Wellfleet) turnips are well known.
Have a lazy long weekend.
May 5, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Christer, have you tried to eat stinging nettles? I occasionally do it with mine. Let the ripped out plants rest for at least an hour until they don’t sting any more and then just take the leaves. Well, not as good as spinach but good enough to add to vegetable soup.
May 5, 2016 at 11:42 pm
Hi Birgit!
Yes I have and it is perhaps not my favorite thing in life 🙂 The kind we have here stings long after it is dead but if we pour boiling water on it it finally stops stinging. I’ll find my gloves instead 🙂
May 5, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Hi Kat,
Maybe we become weather whiney as adults because fighting the weather is yet another thing we have to do in order to get somewhere to do more things we don’t want to do. As a kid, I found most weather to be entertaining at least. Thunderstorms were wonderful. Rain was fun. Snow was even more fun. Hot meant swimming weather. I didn’t have a schedule so I could take the time to play in the weather. As an adult, I had to be somewhere at a certain time and weather was often an impediment to be overcome instead of enjoyed. But I’m back to the point where I can enjoy it again.
However, this week is an overabundance of cold and rain. I’d like to play in some sunshine again soon. 🙂
Enjoy the day.
May 5, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Hi Caryn,
That’s true about weather when we’re adults. We’re stuck with working. The weather can’t affect us. We just go and do.The worst though is being stuck working on a perfect spring day when all you can do is look out the window and yearn.
Sunday will be sunny or at least not rainy!
The good this is we don’t really have to go out most bad days.
Enjoy your evening!!