Air Out The Brain | DearDiary.Net

I thought I had better show up and write something here today lest you think I have gone walkabout or something...

Well, we DID go walkabout for a while today. Out to the pond. It rained last night and washed everything clean, including the air. Imagine a stiff north wind in this picture, and just enough coolness to require a jacket, but not enough that you wish you had worn gloves.

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Sunny immediately got into the scummy pond and came out black on the bottom half. I would have taken a picture, but right after I got this one of the trees, my batteries gave up the ghost. Anyway, she's out in the back yard right now, drying off after getting sprayed with the garden hose. Ben, being the sensible one, stayed out of the muck. It was good to get out and blow the cobwebs out of my brain.

I have been home for three days in a row, and am happy as a clam.

Though I have never understood how anyone could figure out if a clam felt one way or another.... about anything.

I've started a new pair of socks. They are my new addiction. What can I tell you?

Okay, back to the needles and dark lavender yarn.

Comments (5)

mamallama (Legacy)

When I was a kid and we had been cooped up too long, me grandmother would say, "Let's get out and blow the stink off."
She had lots of great sayings like that.
I sure miss her.
Hugs.

Salamander (Legacy)

I made a comment last week concerning how the heck one figures out if a clam is happy or not. Your post forced me to Google, where I found:

Why would clams be happy? It has been suggested that open clams give the appearance of smiling. The derivation is more likely to come from the fuller version of the phrase, now rarely heard - 'as happy as a clam at high water'. Hide tide is when clams are free from the attentions of predators; surely the happiest of times in the bivalve mollusc world. The phrase originated in the north-eastern states of the USA in the early 19th century. The earliest citation that I can find is from a frontier memoir The Harpe's Head - A Legend of Kentucky, 1833 ...

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-happy-as-a-clam.html

Thanks for making me finally look that up!

InStitches (Legacy)

Most of our fall color is gone now thanks to a storm that blew through a couple of days ago; strong winds plus heavy rain equals very naked trees. I am cold just looking at them.

Pragmatist (Legacy)

Given a choice, it's better that Sunny does the muck thing. After all, she's short haired where Ben would need not only the hose, but the hair dryer and the combing.

That's a beautiful picture. How appropriate that the batteries gave their life. Just couldn't bear to take another maybe so-so picture. Brave little batteries!!!

Bless

welshamethyst (Legacy)

RYC: Yes, it's not really an apricot. It's more of a warm cinnamon brown and it's a perfect match to the comforter set.

I double dog dare you to try the cowslip. What are you out if it doesn't work? $20 in paint and some labor. That's the great thing about paint. If you don't like it, do it again because it's relatively cheap.