Our Life & Our World

Bathroom…..

I like a nice clean looking bathroom and when I go to places, it’s easy to notice the ceramic tile they have installed.  It gives me ideas for my bathroom at home and how I might want the designs to look.  Investing in tile, can be expensive, but you can find good deals, when they are on sale.  I know that I would want a good reputable dealer to get my products from.

That Smell

About once a week the lady downstairs, cooks with “garlic”.  Now, I love garlic, but when it’s so strong that it chokes you and you live upstairs, then that’s rough.  I will try to sleep late some morning, and so help me ……that is the morning she will do her thing.  The strong odor could pry a sleeping bear out of his cave.  I even heard her smoke alarm go off one morning from her burning it.

Gloves……

It’s not long until spring and I will need a good pair of gloves, when I start getting the garden cleaned and ready to plant.  It’s necessary to have good work gloves when you are tilling the soil.  I tend to develop blisters when hoeing the grass away from my plants.  I don’t like to get blisters because they hurt so bad the next day.  I make sure to wear my gloves, and keep down the chance of getting one.

I Forgot…….

It’s amazing the things you hear, around your neighborhood. Have you ever really stopped to listen to the sounds of your neighborhood?

Well, as I started writing this, post I realized what I was hearing. Now, you have to consider, that it’s mid-morning on a Friday. The weather’s cold and rainy, yet this sound happens at least twice a week. What is it? It’s loud booming noise, tells me it’s big. The engine is so loud, it could jar you right out of bed, if your lucky enough to still be in bed at this time. It’s the trash truck coming down the street.

Now, all sorts of things go through your mind. “Oh heck, did I put the trash out”? “Maybe, it’s not full enough anyway”. “Oh, well it’s too late now”. “I’m not running out in my sock feet, in the rain, to take it to the curb”. “I’ll just have to take it next week”.

Yes, there’s plenty of procrastination, when it comes to taking out the trash. It’s just not a job we like to do. It’s one of those we put off as long as possible, that has to be done.

Still that sound can stir you, in a hurry. Especially, if you’ve put off taking out the trash the last two times. You can hear it, coming down the street and you know just about how far it’s gotten, by how close the sound is. So, your thinking, I should be able to get out there before it turns around to come up my side of the street. So, you run like heck, tripping over the cat and making him scream bloody murder. Out the door you go, with no shoes, half dressed and your hair standing straight up.

That sound has a dire affect on the human brain & body. It really gets us going and pushes the blood pressure higher, with each running step. By the time you get the trash to the curb, your red in the face and heaving for breath. But you make it, all because of that sound.

Old Age

It gets harder each year to look in the mirror, and see the age in my face.  I’ve often wondered why we have to get so old looking just to get on in years?  I’m sure there are many who think the same and wish that someone would invent a tried and true wrinkle cream that worked.  There are this and that creams on the market, but your lucky if you find one that will do very much at all.