Does Your Garden Grow?

Bi-color Narcissus

Peach blossoms

Violets

Pansies

Hardening the plants

Leaves on the Japanese Maple

How does your garden grow?

Happy, Little, Time Waster

 

CJ and Ink

"NASA has a website where you can type in your name and see it spelled out using real satellite images of Earth.

The tool is called Your Name in Landsat, and each letter comes from an actual landscape captured from space, rivers, mountains, coastlines, ice, deserts, and other features that naturally look like letters.

You can type in your name, your kid’s name, your partner’s name, or the name of someone you’ve lost, and see what parts of the Earth come together to spell it."

Your Name in Landsat

The Friday Five Good Things

 

Five good things that happened this week.

1. The new fleece jacket with zippers in the pockets arrived. I hate carrying a purse.

2. I bought some comfy socks for Summer

3. I made pizza, and the yeast decided to add an ingredient

4. I made the Young One's delicious sausage soup recipe

5. I finished the layout for the baby gift

How was your week?

TBT Reprints from CJ's Whine and Cheeze

 In 2003, Ma had a stroke. Dad was her full time caregiver until he he had a car accident that totaled the car. So in 2006, I became their chauffeur among other jobs.

At the time, to deal with the stress of running two households and working, I kept a blog entitled CJ's Whine and Cheeze. Egged on by some friends who enjoyed the first read through, you'll see your part when it comes by.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Solution

The following day after Dad's phone bill arrived, I called Dad to tell him the amount on the phone bill. He had the same reaction I did. Pissed He asked me to call the phone company to see if they would remove the charge from the bill.

"Like they did for the past two months?"

"Uh, yeah, and see if they can block the number so Ma can't call.

"I'll try."

Kelly at the phone company was very sympathetic and understanding. "I'm not allowed to credit calls to Jamaica anymore", she said. "However, I will give him a credit as if he had the International dialing plan on his service. That would bring the call to Jamaica down to 38 cents per minute instead of $4.96 per minute. That call would be $8.74 plus tax."

I thanked her and then asked if there was anyway that could prevent Ma from placing international calls. She suggested having the international plan of $4.00 per month added to the bill. As she pointed out, Ma isn't going to stop calling these scam numbers and at least the phone call would be a reasonable amount to pay instead of the $100 calls. She had a point, but I wanted to find a better solution. I asked to be connected to the fraud department to see if they could help out.

After spending the day on the phone talking to the phone company representatives, I was sharing a large glass of whine with a friend. "Other than the international calling plan, the only other thing they could suggest would be to prevent the Weebles from placing any calls where they have to dial a one before the number. Only that wouldn't be good because then if they needed me, they couldn't call me."

"I'm not seeing the downside to the problem," she said.

Himself had the same reaction.

While pacing from the kitchen to the livingroom, I came up with a solution. "I know what to do."

"Yeah, what?" Himself asked.

"I'll give Tony Soprano a call.

A Journal Page

 

playing around with ideas for a new project.

T Stands for Dietetic Pink

The Pink Panther in "Dietetic Pink"

Did you spy the beverage? 

Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth’s blog to find out what the rest of the T gang is up to. If you want to play, include a beverage or beverage container in your post. Don’t forget to link your blog from Bleubeard and Elizabeth’s page.

Monet and Me

 

are working on a new baby gift for our niece's new baby.

What are you working on today?