TROUBLE

                  If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing words instead of being pulled by them.

                                                                 Raymond Chandler

               Raymond Chandler knows something about himself.

ADVENTURE WITH DEER

               I've  been know to tell a jack rabbit story or two. I've also told a few deer stories.

             However, this last while I've been losing the war with a deer..

            A few weeks ago a deer or some deer came in my back yard and ate all the tomatoes that were on the plant exterior. I don't have a gate to my back yard so put up some barriers to keep the deer out of my back yard. It worked.

          So it got to to the point where nothing was left to harvest so I didn't put the barriers up. The deer were in the back yard immediately. The first time I caught them I tried to scare them out of the yard. I then decided to go out and move them out of the yard. I came into the back yard and they stood and looked at me. I yelled and they moved around the  corner of the house. I said aha. I'll bet you go around the corner and stay there. That's exactly  what  they had done.

     The next time There was only one deer to catch and then he got very cheeky and laid down in my yard. All the time he was feeding and making a mess.

   I took the carrots out and left them on the step. Big mistake. They nibbled on some of the carrots and spread them around.

     So it's been quite and adventure. I guess the beginning of the rut is happening and this big buck is putting his scent in my yard.

    Once I told my story , people said that I should be careful as deer have been known to run at people.

Black currant that was trashed

Nice green ash in color

The sunflower that was beaten to pulp.

DREAM

     You have to have a dream so that you can get up in the morning.

                                         Billy Wilder

        The want of coffee does it for me.

BE NICE

               Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down.

                                                                              Jimmy Durante

               At least we know that Jimmy Durante was  trying to be humorous.

CONVERSION

       We live surrounded in asea of converts. Never the less this sea can decrease in size.

                                                                     Mother Teresa

      At lest we know where mother Teresa is coming from in her quotation.

ANGER

            Anger makes dull men witty, but it keep them poor.

                                                             Mark Twain

            I don't get this one at all. It's over my head.

GOLD

            All the gold in the world has no significance. That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man.

                                                    Adolfo Freito

        I wish a certain president could understand this.

CHOICES

      Unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything.

                                                     Peter Marshall

         Peter Marshall was an all round TV personality

BLOGGER

     Everyday I see posts and comments about blogger problems. I seem to get one post per day; 

    I've been able to read blogs and make comments by going to manage for your list of blogs that you follow blogs. You can fiddle around and find blogs and the comments. It's cumbersome and takes time.

     I hope this gets sorted out soon. 

     I miss you.

PESSIMISTS

       The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

                                           Winston Churchill

      Looking at two opposites.

WALKING

             Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave a footprints in your heart.

                                                   Eleonor Roosevelt

            Eleonor Roosevelt was a very interesting character.

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