a friend (about 20 years my junior!) at singing last night said I can do tricks with the giant, water-weighted hula hoop, claims I don’t need to get a smaller, lighter one. youtube instructional videos. okay, tomorrow I’ll be hauling my Mac onto the back porch with me and the hoop.
hoopla
circles
crop circles
Simon Beck’s snow art (yes, I looked up his name. he is not the only snow artist though, c’mon people)
today, I think we will get our tax bill
YIKES!
Next week, Hubby leaves for China. 10 days. longest overseas trip ever. Violet will go, too.
I pretty well hate when he’s gone, I do, I really do
Look, it’s not so bad, it’s just not my favorite thing. I’ll miss him. I’ll miss Violet. Annie will miss Violet.
10 days is a long time
Look, you people, you HAVE to answer this quiz:
1. age is a state of mind, true or false?
2. losing one’s mental acuity is not inevitable with age, true or false? what about visual acuity?
3. what time is it?
4. how fast does the time go?
5. who knows where the time goes?
6. do you know that song reference? You better!
7. or else!
8. how physically active can one remain and into what year of one’s life? 78? 80? 84? 87? 93?
9. do you know the thing about old deer/young deer? The old deer won’t try new foods, but the young deer will. The old deer play it safe, but the young deer increase their possibilities for new food sources and, though they don’t know it, they increase their neural connections (as well as risk of eating poisonous plants). that’s how it was told to me, even if it is just a metaphor.
10. are you an old deer or a young deer?
11. laying down new neural connections is the shit
twinklysparkles 
1. False
2. True, True
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. False
8. False
9. True
10. True
11. True
Oh, Katharine, you are a woman after my own heart! You’ve scored 100% (not that we give out grades or judgement or anything like that around here).
–the other Katherine
Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention), too easy!!!
Ray, yes, that is correct. I am more familiar with Judy Collins singing it. Do you have a favorite? They are quite different.
Now, as far as the quiz, you get a fail because although you answered one question correctly, you didn’t even try the rest and you made an impertinent comment to the proctor. A raspberry for you!
I think that’s just cool as hell that Violet gets to go to China with her dad. A safe trip to the both of them.
Thanks, alpha. It is cool, you are right. Maybe the whole family will go some day or I’ll go when the kiddies are out of high school. It’s SO far away and I don’t care much for jet lag and culture shock. I would like to see that clay army and the Great Wall, I suppose, but China is so big, it’s not like you can just hop over and see whatever you want so easily. Big doings.
And you? Have you been to Asia/China?