"banana guards" I can't stop laughing!!!

Every morning I go through all my feeds. I read my friends blogs daily and then read what looks interesting to me for the day. .

I read fashion incubator about once a week unless I am in a pattern making/sewing frame of mind.  They had a pop quiz a couple days ago, which I noticed today because it made  the tailoring trade newsletters:
http://www.fashion-incubator.com/mt/archives/pop_quiz_467.html

I know what they are, but I have never used one like that, but I would like to.

I am sure I could run up a few banana covers for anyone who needs one ;)

Just had my first tomato from my balcony

It was very good! I ate it with some fresh sweet basil also from my balcony.

I have 5 tomato plants on my balcony and a few tomatoes are on them, but only 1 was anywhere near ripe.  The cucumbers are just starting to flower.  I hope everything gets ripe before the first frost.  The leeks are very thin, look just a bit thicker than the chives ;-(

I have thyme and basils-sweet, thai, cinnamon, and lemon. I had 3 thymes but only the creeping one is left.

We have had some bad weather here but at least most of my plants survived the storms.

Small political quiz

I am a leftist Libertarian, LOL

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

The political group that
agrees with you most is...

.

LIBERTARIAN

LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and

economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one

that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.

Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose

government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate

diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 60%.
(Please note: Scores falling on the Centrist border are counted as Centrist.)

Netflix!

I am so thrilled to have been given Netflix.
I finally finished watching my second disk. 
It was Due South Season 2, disk 2 and it was great! 

Finally, its happened, I became invisible!

When I was younger especially in college, I tried very hard to be a wallflower and not be noticed, but it rarely worked.

The only time I can remember was when I was about 27. I had gotten a haircut I like to referred to as the "twinkie do", and went to the Minneapolis Strictly Business Computer Show. I had some money to spend, about 20K and no one even noticed I was in their booths. So i started playing with their computers. No one noticed! They did eventually notice their screen savers had somehow changed to say "I'd rather be a Mac."
In fact, I was still in one booth when it was discovered but still no one noticed me, I was amazed! A few days later, I flew off to Germany to attended the Hanover Cebit where I had no problem being notice wearing the same outfit, "twinkie do" and all. I actually got all the information I needed, plus seriously wined and dined! I got rid of the "twinkie do" when I got back home but my hair stylist and I still reminisce about it sometimes.

I had heard that when women become a certain age they become invisible, and today I realized it was true, I have become invisible.
Usually there are people and rabbits around my apartment building, and the neighborhood also has a lot of rabbits. When I come home at night there is a usually a rabbit looking at my headlights and chumping on something. Sometimes the rabbit says and sometimes it takes off when I close the car door. I never really thought of why that was until today.

As I was walking to the post office, a rabbit come out in front of me to eat some grass, I kept walking and the rabbit kept eating, I was within 6 inches of the rabbit and it didn't even notice me. Thinking about it I realized the rabbits take off when I am with other people (most of whom are younger than I) and they stay when I am alone.

Suddenly it dawned on me, I have become invisible to RABBITS! How this can be possible is beyond me, but I guess its a good thing as I am allergic to them...
I am wondering if rabbits are color blind because if you had this combination of colors next to you, wouldn't you notice?

Just a bit of weather...

When I got home Friday night at about 2 am I was wondering where is that weather that we were supposed to get.  My friend said that's tomorrow.  A few of my neighbors where up and outside, the weather seemed just fine,
When I was doing an email a bit later I thought I heard some thunder so I unplugged my computer before getting ready for bed.

I was just reading a bit, having sent off my final emails and text messages for the day and getting all comfy when the storm started.  It was very loud, lots of close lightening, deafening thunder, sound of rain and tree branches scrapping the building.  Then the lights flickered a few times, so I got up and started unplugging the tv and assorted video stuff, the microwave, put the lanyard reading light around my neck and checked the flash light by my bed. The lights went out, then on for a few more minutes then off for good.  

I tried to look outside but the rain was coming down so hard I couldn't see beyond the end of my balcony.  It was so hot.  The electricity and the more importantly the AC didn't come back on until 11am. At which point my phone rang and my gardening partner asked to come over to iron a shirt as she still was without power.
the first pic St Anthony Park is MY neighborhood!!!
http://wcco.com/slideshows/local_slideshow_223104336

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Well, it looks like I will have to postpone the rest of my weather and picture post as we are about to get hammered again.  Need to move glass stuff off balcony for hail. We are in a thunderstorm warning already.  Time to freeze the apartment in case of power outage, unplug stuff,

She smiled!

I was going to post about the lovely bit of weather we have had recently, but when we stop by the zoo and conservatory during our view of the damage, we went into the tropical encounters part. We watched the turtles, and the fish. There is also a sloth there always in the same spot in this tree, curled up and sleeping. However today when we were in front of the tree, she woke up! Stretched in a very sloth like manner, smiled at us, relaxed and went back to sleep kind of sprawled out on her back. I have never seen a sloth do that. My brother took the photo.

What Harry Potter Character are You? Hermione Granger You are a smart and intelligent person. You use your smarts to help out friends. You can be emotional at times but you always seem to be in the mood to help someone out. Click Here to Take This Quiz

Quizzes and Personality Tests

Grabbed from Kami Sanctuary

What kind of Poetry are you?

I am, of course, none other than blank verse. I don't know where I'm going, yes, quite right; And when I get there (if I ever do) I might not recognise it. So? Your point? Why should I have a destination set? I'm relatively happy as I am, And wouldn't want to be forever aimed Towards some future path or special goal. It's not to do with laziness, as such. It's just that one the whole I'd rather not Be bothered - so I drift contentedly; An underrated way of life, I find. What Poetry Form Are You?

Stardust-another, very different, red hot fairy tale.

I was going to start this post with a great quote but I can't remember it right, its about how romantic it is to bring a hurt kidnapped women home as a gift.

I am very sleepy, stayed up too late and had to get up early, plus I spent the day in meetings and attempting to learn Dreamweaver. I was afraid I would fell asleep during the movie, but it wouldn't let me!

Stardust is amazing, almost as good as Princess Bride. The cast is great and no one can touch De Niro's performance in this, no one! The peanut gallery is hilarious. Costumes were fun too. I almost forgot the special effects were fantastic, I didn't see any mistakes, and no ILM!!!

It opens on Friday, I have no idea why on earth they did a screening today, but I am happy they did.