"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."Khalil Gibran
- JUST BLOOMED TODAY
- AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
- TWEET TREATS
- DID YOU KNOW...?
- GARDEN UPDATE
- THE AMAZING TYPEWRITER ART OF PAUL SMITH
- FAUNA
- GARDEN GIGGLE
- WHAT IN THE WORLD?
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JUST BLOOMED TODAY
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| Hubby brought home orchids :) |
AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
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TWEET TREATS
bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.
DID YOU KNOW...?
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| Do not let me nap @annazipper |
a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue?
GARDEN UPDATE
The amoxicillin is working for my finger. The skin irritation has calmed down to just red patches and I now have knuckles again. Still can't bend my finger but no more throbbing. It does itch, though. Wow, that little guy packed a punch!
The amoxicillin is working for my finger. The skin irritation has calmed down to just red patches and I now have knuckles again. Still can't bend my finger but no more throbbing. It does itch, though. Wow, that little guy packed a punch!
THE AMAZING TYPEWRITER ART OF PAUL SMITH
He lived at Rose Haven Nursing Home ( Roseburg , OR) for years. Paul Smith, the man with extraordinary talent was born on September 21, 1921, with severe cerebral palsy. Not only had Paul beaten the odds of a life with spastic cerebral palsy, a disability that impeded his speech and mobility but also taught himself to become a master artist as well as a terrific chess player even after being devoid of a formal education as a child.
"When typing, Paul used his left hand to steady his right one. Since he couldn't press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the shift key down and made his pictures using the symbols at the top of the number keys. In other words, his pictures were based on these characters ..... @ # $ % ^ & * ( )_ . Across seven decades, Paul created hundreds of pictures. He often gave the originals away. Sometimes, but not always, he kept or received a copy for his own records. As his mastery of the typewriter grew, he developed techniques to create shadings, colors, and textures that made his work resemble pencil or charcoal drawings."
This great man passed away on June 25, 2009, but left behind a collection of his amazing artwork that will be an inspiration for many.
"TV commercials show you how detergents remove bloodstains. I think if you've got shirts with bloodstains all over them, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem." Jerry Seinfeld
FAUNA
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| This is one of Michael Vick's former abused dogs, who has been adopted to a loving family. "Audie" earned his Excellent Jumpers with Weaves 'A' Preferred Agility Title this weekend. Such an athlete, Such a hero! Congrats to our littlest V-dog man and proud owner Linda Chwistek. |
1877 Billy The Kid kills his first man
1915 Charles Kettering receives a patent for the electric self-starter
1933 On August 17, 1933, New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking former Yankee Everett Scott’s record for consecutive games played. Gehrig would go on to play in 2,130 games in a row, setting a record that would stand for over half a century.
1962 East Germans kill a man trying to cross the Berlin Wall
1969 Woodstock Festival concludes. Jimi Hendrix plays his version of the Star Spangled Banner
1974 "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace tops the charts
1978 The first transatlantic balloon ride is accomplished
1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's former deputy, is found strangled to death in Spandau Prison in Berlin at the age of 93, apparently the victim of suicide
1998 Clinton testifies before the grand jury
2002 Pope John Paul II arrives in Krakow, Poland in his last visit to his native land
2012 A man dies and a woman becomes seriously ill contracting the hantavirus from a campsite in Yosemite
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