Smart Phones!

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(From my FB page)

 

 

 

My kids all have these types of 'smart phones.'
They suggest that C. and I need them, too!
We really don't, though!

I only have need of a cell phone about one day a week when I go out shopping...to call home and make sure C. is availa ble to help me unload the groceries when I get home!

:) I have a cheap cell phone that has no idea how to do all those 'smart' things my kids show me that their phones can do!

...As for other communications...everyone I know now-or have EVER known- can be found on Face Book...OR I can just walk next door and say 'hi' to my neighbors! :)

I DO think we have gone a little wild in these modern times with the things that we've grown to consider our necessities in our lives!

You might think this is a contradiction, since...here I am on a computer, after all...But you don't know how LONG I did resist getting a computer!! (a LONG time!!!)

BESIDES-I can't afford a 'Smart' phone! :)

(image from Wikipedia)

 

This is the only Blackberry I know.

Junie Rose

My husband, the COMIC… (a re-run)

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~~ A Blast From The Past~~

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My husband, the COMIC…

1968

My husband has resisted the world of computers!
 (resisted - resented- relentlessly!! HIS 3 Rs))

However, he has,

in spite of all, picked up some computer speak…so he ain’t fooling me a bit with this show of total ‘unawareness’ of the term - ‘BLOG!’

In my excitement over the fun I’m having with MY OWN BLOG I recently asked him,

“Charles, if you had a BLOG, what would you put on it?”

 Without a moments hesitation he came back with …

“Watkin’s salve!” “But I don’t need any - I’m Healthy!”
 
…insinuating he didn’t understand my question… didn’t understand what I meant by BLOG…pretending he thought I meant some skin blemish or some such thing!!

Luckily, I have a good sense of humor or I might read more into this...
 “But I don’t need any - I’m healthy!”



Note:

Watkin's salve is product that has been around for many years-used to treat skin problems and wounds!


July 31, 2005

Juniper

More on that plant...

LOL...And I feel stupid!

When C. brought that plant in for me to see we both felt a familiarity to it...It was kinda weird because neither of us could capture our memories/knowledge for this plant..but we both felt we had seen it before-also the smell of the leaves seemed familiar to us.

One of my readers  left a comment letting me know the name she knows it by.

 

Here  is the comment!

Mel Cole of PA, USA said...

Oh those! We call those Ampalaya. They are food for diebetic though. Have a beautiful Tuesday.  ~~

OK-I was excited to get this info and of course went to search out more information about this plant.

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I found~

 another name  for this plant is 'Bitter Melon.'

This is some info on Wikipedia.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_melon

~After learning this, Charles and I became concerned that this plant may have been planted by our daughter-in-law, Joy, as a veggie to use...and that it was NOT a wild plant at all like we had thought it to be!~

LOL-OK-later  that night I talked to my D-I-L ( My new D-I-L who is a Filipino girl) and-indeed- she knew all about this plant and had grown it from seeds she had got from a friend!

The name she knows it by is 'Bitter Squash.'

Oh, my! So we had messed up- but Joy and I had a good laugh over it!  :) Luckily, C. didn't remove the plants- just the fruit to show me!

...so...the feeling of having known this plant before- or one closely related- kept gnawing at my memories... I decided to search out 'Florida Vines.' I had  almost immediate results in this journey! I found this!

Bitter melon, Balsam apple - Momordica charantia

 

 http://www.floridasnature.com/vines_%20gallery.htm

 

...And then Charles and I both remembered a very similar problem vine we had  had in Miami that kept growing up among our Hibiscus hedge.  I remembered this but since the fruits were much smaller didn't make the connection that it is the same plant- or at least a very close relative!

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This plant seems to have many uses and is beneficial in a lot of ways ... also-parts of it can be toxic...so my first impression was not really that far off!

Only one of the fruits C. picked to show me was at the edible stage...when they turn yellow they are only good for the seeds. 

 

Anyway-I have the seeds and will save them for next year!

 

~~OK-then~ THIS is one reason I like blogging and the Internet!!  There's a whole world of knowledge at your fingertips!!~~

 

 

Junie Rose

Art Horses

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Art Horses

This week Carletta, of 'Round the Bend,' posted and blogged about a very neat painted art horse she had seen on her travels.

LOL- Seems Carletta and I are often on the *same track* with our blogging- as we often find the same things to photograph and show and talk about.
We both, do indeed, take a lot of pictures of a lot of different things! :)

Anyway- Carletta's horse blog brought our own 'Horse Fever' project back to mind for me. Here in Ocala our horses were created by local artists and eventually, sold at auction.

I wrote about it here!

Here are a few more that might not have been shown in my earlier blogs about these horses.










Junie