COUNTING

     Not everything can be counted counts, and not everything that can be counted counts.

                                                          Albert Einstein

            Simple but true.

OBSTACLES

      Obstacles are  those frightful things you see when you take your eyes your   goal.

                                                                  Henry Ford

What can I say about henry Ford?  I even bought one of his cars.

COMMENTS

        I have  not been  getting comments for the last two days. Are other bloggers experiencing the same problem. What do you do about it?

SHOPPING

       

     Part of my back fence has been slowly rotting away. I decided I had to do something about before I find myself out in the snow in he winter.

    I thought is should be fairly easy to do. I needed  two cross pieces and 8 vertical boards. I also had to figure out how to get this material home as I don't have a truck. 

    So here's where the Micro Manager gets in on the action. She has to phone half of the lumber yards in town to get detailed prices. I needed the 12 ft boards  cut in the middle at an angle. So after all this research she made a choice of where to buy the material. We have often dealt with this business. When we got out in the yard to load the material we found that it was in such poor condition we wouldn't take it. After telling us they'd cut on an angle the wouldn't So we got our money back.

    So we went to the next place and we thought  we're smarter so we looked at the material first. The material was of excellent quality but they wouldn't cut on an angle after somebody said they would.

   We finally went to a third business. They would cut on an angle. But before we got to the cutting stage I found boards that were already cut.

    So it was disappointing with all the micro managers research that we had such bad luck.

COMMON SENSE

    Common sense is wisdom with it's sleeves rolled up.

                                                  Kyle Farnsworth

    The only thing I can find on Farnsworth is that he was  baseball pitcher.

BUCK BUCKS !

      Just as I got in bed the other night I remembered that I hadn't set out the carts for  pick up. The Micro Manager said we'll be awake in the morning and put them out. The trucks usually pick up about 7:15 AM. 

     We happened to wake up about 5:15 AM so I decided to go out then.

    I stumbled out with my jacket on. What a surprise when I got in my back yard and found that I had visitors. Two very large bucks were standing in my yard. Usually they run and get out of the country. These two beggars just stood there and looked at me. They sneered. I yelled at them. They moved two steps. I stepped towards them and them decided to leave. They went as far as the street and stopped looking back. I know what they ware  thinking. "He'll go back in the house and we'll go back in the yard. 

    They finally decided to leave.

    the next day I thought I'd see how much they like tomatoes. They ate about 25 % of the fruit. 

    Was I mad?

    I think my friend Bill Franz  sent them down from his place.

     I thought afterwards that mule deer bucks have been known to charge humans. I didn't think about that as I tried to shoo them out of my yard.

BRAINS

   Some people are so open minded, their brains fall out.

                                                  Rick Warren

     I like open minded people. Rick Warren is an American evangelical pastor