A LOVELY DAY.....sigh!

 

 

Hello everyone,

I`m back again,  with more of my Scribbles to share with you.  Last night I was so fed up with AOL throwing me offline so many times, plus something was causing my computer to freeze as well and I had to force a shutdown at least 6 times.  I don`t know why because I always keep the PC `clean` and have recently done a defrag.  I have firewalls and up-to-date anti-virus, you name it, I have it and I do it...sometimes I think the flipping thing just doesn`like me...lol!  Anyway, by the time I did get back online I couldn`t really care less about anything and had lost enthusiasm I had for my journal.  So there you have it, my excuse for no entry.

Have any of you been reading Jeannette`s Jottings lately.  She is on the third episode of a beautiful story at the moment, if you haven`t already, do call in and have a look.  Do you like the photo I took of Kerry and Roman this afternoon?  I missed the best photo opportunity there has ever been with him to this day.  We were all sitting on the floor when Jake lifted his head, moved forward towards Roman and nudged him gently with his nose. Roman smiled at him and stroked his face.  If only I could have frozen that moment in time.  It was so beautiful and we were all touched to see that for the briefest of moments, they had made a connection.  It was the first time that Roman, despite Jake trying his hardest, had really taken any real notice of him, it was just amazing to see.

The weather though starting out wet, became really sunny this afternoon.  I took Jake for a long walk, taking in the country lanes.  It was almost as though Spring was in the air.  I could hear birds singing and noticed that shrubs and trees had buds on them already, it was the sort of day when you feel great to be alive and the world seems such a happy place to be, may we soon have more days like today.  I noticed this morning that crocuses have started to peep through the earth and the buds on the two Magnolias are looking really healthy for the time of year.  I always think spring flowers are the prettiest, especially when the Magnolias blossom. One of them is pink and is about thirty years old with star-shaped blooms, the other is a young tree that I planted last year, about two years old at a guess, is a rubra `Susan` and has saucer-sized blooms.  I can`t wait to see `Susan`s` flowers this year.

I`ve been feeling a bit down about my failure to get a job.  I`m going to try the local vet`s surgery to see if they need a part-time receptionist.  They are always looking for new people for whatever reason, so it can`t hurt to ask.  I know people who have worked there and it`s mainly the young nurses who move on to pastures new because they get fed up with doing reception work.  I`ll take Jake round on the pretence of getting him weighed and ask on the off chance. 

Must go now as I have lots of emails to read and journal alerts to answer.  Have a lovely eveing and take care.

 

 

 

Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing.

A golden razor removed from King Tut’s Tomb was still sharp enough to be used

The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.

There was a person that paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.

The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840.

Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with “rejoice.”

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets as their first meal on the moon.

Pamela Anderson isCanada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada’s independence.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Samuel Colt, the famous gun maker, paid the equivalent of $400,000 in today’s money for his wife’s wedding dress and accessories.

David Prouse (the man inside the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars) spoke all of his lines in the first movie. He did not know that his voice was being dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw the finished movie.