Simple Pleasures

Seeing the house half moved

Sitting poolside at daughter’s fiancé ‘s house with a cup of Colombian coffee, watching the rabbits, ducks and lizards do their own thing around the lakefront.

~Allen

SP: sunny morning, ceiling fan, legs wrapped around Tramp...sigh

Walking my dogs in the last hour before sunset and then driving home looking at a pink sky.

Reading Tramp & Lady flirt with each other in this thread.......

Was it Mexican that we ate?

I get confused. You walk in and everything else just disappears. Can't remember a thing 'cept you, Honeybee!

SP: Tramp wined and dined me last night (Well, beer and mexican), lol....but the dessert.....off the chain! Gotta feeling I will be daydreaming about it quite a lot today. He still does it for me after all these years.....

seeing two empty bedrooms in the house we are living in and two full bedrooms in our new house.

hey chez get the hint lol

Nice cocktails with “friends “!

sitting on njny porch slathering her with spf 40

Lite back scratches

My daughter needed me to fix her TV.

Diagnosed it within 15 minutes, and her friend brought over a new cable.

Problem fixed.

Then we went out to burgers and beers with her, our granddaughter, her bff and her daughter.

She is going through a bad time and I am glad we could be there for her...

Spent the day with Lady in her home town at a family get together for her mom's birthday.

Lady moved to Atlanta, far away from her family, to be with me many years ago. We go back as often as we can, but it's not nearly often enough.

Because of those long absences, I become a shadow on the wall...but it's ok.

I just stare at the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. Lady has the most incredible and infectious smile. I wished I could smile like her. It will melt stone.

I just stared at her all day. Amazed beyond description that she ever picked a Tramp like me...but she did, and here I am. One lucky Tramp!

The way things smell in spring when it has rained overnight, giving my dogs belly rubs, the way coffee smells, being that amount of tired that actually feels good. Maybe just life itself.

Bacon

Forsythia and daffodils blooming, trees budding, and grass greening up after the long bout of winter-like weather.

Getting an unexpected, but very welcomed, call from a favorite forum acquaintance last evening. What a thrill for a common Tramp such as I.

i was tlking to a lady on the plane about this.

The internet is great for connecting people with similar beliefs. Good and bad.

House is almost painted, yaaa Carpet and then we move in!!

More like "Guilty Pleasures" or "Waste of Time"

So sometimes I read some of the garbage groups on facebook. Ones dedicated to woo or flat earth or other such stupidity. I don't know why I do it to myself. Maybe it makes me feel smarter.

Reading some of these flat earthers really blows my mind. What's really amusing is when they take some picture, such as outside the window of a plane or of the ocean from a beach, with the whole "looks flat to me" thing. They just scream "where is the curve?"

Problem is that if you take their own pictures and put a straight line to it you can often see that it is, in fact, curved. This then results in the group kicking the flattie out as some sort of stealth globe-troll. Hysterical.

I had a flat earther history teacher in high school. He had all of the usual things that go with it - we've never been to the Moon, everything is a conspiracy. etc. I always thought he didn't actually believe this stuff but was in fact "trolling" us, trying to stimulate discussion and encourage critical thinking. Basically playing devil's advocate for the purposes of making us think things through rather than blindly accepting them.

Looking back on it, I'm not so sure that this was the case. He died long ago so it's not like I can ask him. Until recently I thought almost all of these people were like that - just going through mental exercises etc.

Now it's becoming obvious that some of these idiots are real. Before the Internet they were alone and mostly kept quiet because they didn't feel like anyone else believed the same way. Now 10,000 of them from all over the globe (pardon the pun) can be in the same room and feel like they are some sort of groundswell of truth. Now they feel bolder and have become noisier, and they have brought more mushy-brained people into their fold.

I've only actually met a couple of these people openly. One at a party who told me that 1. Cancer is caused by a fungus genetically engineered to wipe out the world's population 2. That he works for the World Bank and his job is to control who knows about it (not doing a good job since he tells strangers at parties) 3. Engines can run on water and he has one at his house that works. I kind of went numb at this point.

It's like watching car wrecks, I guess. Entertaining in a sick sort of way. But mostly sad and scary.

The simple pleasure of seeing all my fruit trees I planted come to life with lots of green leaves!

We did that last night.

Took three of the kids (35, 24, 8) and took a cruise. Adult beverages and snacks.

Good times.

happy hour on the boat sounds great

Took the little boat out in the bay.

Tied off to a mooring buoy, grilled some steaks, drank a beer, and enjoyed the early evening...