by jphilo | Sep 10, 2015 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
- Extreme fear of losing a cell phone is now considered a phobia and has been given the name nomophobia. Though I am afraid of snakes, heights, and losing my purse, I do not have nomophobia. Perhaps because I lived for 50 years without one and know I could do so again.
- However, my love for the low tech days of yesteryear go only so far. With a houseful of company over Labor Day, along with high temperatures and humidity, I have no desire to return to the time when air conditioning was not.
- And in the wake of a weekend with a houseful of company and a water main break, I also have no desire to live without running water. Ever. Again.
What technology would be hard to give up? What would you do away with in a heartbeat? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Sep 9, 2014 | Top Ten Tuesday
Our children were very happy to hear we had decided to replace the ancient window air conditioner that came with the house when we moved there in 1991. We were happy, too, until the Man of Steel discovered a bee hive between the machine unit and the box that surrounded it. Bees in the house isn’t a wish-for-it experience, but it does have its perks. Here are ten of them.
10. Bees fleeing their hive as the Man of Steel banged and pulled at the unit provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to see him wear his winter coat, hood, and thick work gloves in early September.
9. The Man of Steel thinks I’m a genius for knowing that a paste of soda and water eases the pain of bee stings.
8. Bees in the house makes mice in the car seem a less disturbing event.
7. A person’s eye-hand coordination improves rapidly when wielding a fly swatter against a bevel o’ angry bees.
6. When the vacuum sweeper sucks the venetian blinds cord a long way into the tube, along with a mound of bee corpses, only a tiny piece of the plastic thingy at the end of the cord becomes a sacrificial offering to the vacuum cleaner god.
5. Bees sneaking back into the house through teeny-tiny holes is motivation to immediately finish the interior caulking, sheet rocking, mudding, painting and trim work.
4. The hardware store will make a huge profit this quarter due to bulk caulking purchases made by a frantic Man of Steel with baking soda paste all over his arms.
3. Bees in the house means the Woman of Aluminum has to spend her working days at her favorite coffee shop until the invasion ends.
2. They also make heading out on a two day speaking trip a welcome event rather than something a homebody Woman of Steel dreads.
1. In fact the speaking trip, booked more than a year ago, makes the Woman of Steel thankful for for God’s divine intervention in our lives…even when he uses bees to make his presence and his plan known.
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