Move Over Mr.BIV

 for you and for Pinky...                                                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zphAHMPtu4g

Paolos, enjoyed the video on rainbow colors.....I went to a 50's party tonite with a group of Artists...I wore my grandmothers 50.s powdered blue Lace streched cotton fabric shift along with my moms straw seashell purse...wonderful fun..card readings... picture booth with 50's theme clothing.....great fun most people were born 1950...I was born in 1960 so interesting...time...at a famous artist house..super cool..designer...one gentleman was 4 generations in beekeeping.....he talk to me...about his health..so when someone knows you work in a hospital..your a topic health genie...He bolted his words and said......and wanted me to know that Doctors are not fixing the health concerns of people....and reminded me and was not scared to die...but worried about his wife missing him..but he was not scared....but I was scared because i know that he had more work to do..in in line of work..details in his artistry...he was indeed sharing T.M.I. but I listened......and what do you say...his time on earth is not long....he said the Amish exiliar of blackstrap Molasses...apple cider vinegar, and honey would help heal him after cancer chemo..he talked and I listened...I know that I hear to many people ......are not able to swallow...sluggish throats...its' an common thing these days...Read books poetry...slow down from all this action going on...sit comfortably and relax...a juicer...a milkshake, a slurry , popsicicles...can help in this heat..... a video of a VIP party in New York City that my daughter went to.... http://vimeo.com/44697264 belly dancers, syngronized swimming, band,bikinis everywhere...New York City fun....anyway what is a good discussion information to give an individual that knows he is going to cease to breath...CTB...what can you say at a party........check the video of New York..its late..I am just thinking in this hot weather..I had thought of his worriness...and how all of fragile...so fast to become ill and I worry too about death..dying...and not getting proper care at the hospital...

the moon tonite is orange and low in the sky...the heat is intense and i going on the front porch for my snooze.....

I always KNEW that women had a superhero's sense of vision. This explains how the teacher knew precisely who was misbehaving even though she was facing the blackboard.....

Seeing abstract ideas in colour? Where did
Seeing Red - anger
Being Green with envy
Yellow-bellied
Feeling Blue
Lily-livered
The 'black glooms'
Passionate Purple and so on come from? I think we all, to some degree, experience coulour associations. I worked with a teenage boy who was - well, the good Lord knows, but he was difficult! Shared one of my Dad's sayings - not saying it's original - "Don't look at me in that tone of voice, it smells a funny colour" This boy thought that was hilarious. Same teenage boy was supposed to be entertained by doing kiddies large piece jigsaw puzzles - he'd tantrum and throw the bits around the room - a friend made me some large piece puzzles using the centrefolds of those magazines that feature scantily clad ladies for the pictures. Boy-o was delighted with them. No more tantrums at jigsaw time. He said it was kind of Lilac and fluffy.

My mother was one of those people who would argue whether a color was actually lavender, lilac or mauve (purple!? shudder..not even close), She would say "be sure its marine blue not royal." The most extreme she became would be when the house was being painted......do you know how many shades of white there are? If you ever saw a painter sobbing on E.19th Street in NYC, he was probably coming from my mother's.

My husband was color blind. It didn't have much on an impact in our lives but you might want to ask my son who was dressed many times in his older sister's pink outfits. He had blond locks and a trusting ready smile. One day husband said "its weird how many people think Rob is a girl. He's so big." Four year old sister:
"Mom you should see how Daddy dresses him!" Sorting & labelling !!

Good morning!
 
CHEFD....................I love the stories about your mother, she sounds like she was such a character....................and what will be on your table for brunch? I am thinking bacon & pancakes much later, much later...................after I water the dehydrated plant life outside a second cup of English breakfast tea will be good.............w/ ac life IS good!
 
HAZEL................I loved your idea about burning old memories you want to shed. At the risk of sounding all, "I'm okay, you're okay".............................I think it sounds very cleansing to the soul.................I may indulge.................
 
SEAPANSY..................what IS a VIP party??????
 
 
I don't want to be soapbox bebe, but if you HAVE had chickenpox please talk to your doctor about shingles & whether you should get a vaccine......................up close & personal it ain't pretty................

Today, I be in color in the Herb Garden at Nino's for Jazz nite..wine tasting... in Mt. Pleasant selling my books, Honey For All, Pittsburgh Victoria...and All is Gilded, White Buffalo Spirit,, and Blueberries For All...I made fresh Basil wreaths , Sage wreaths...and alot of herbs are on ice as we speak..so busy...it is humid....ditto....hot....dot dot...but dressing cool in the Pennsylvania is not so bad at 83 degrees for a high...Hi Bebe.....a VIP party is an invitation only party for a very important person...VIP......my daughter had a weekend of invites to P.Diddysons 21st birthday...at SL on Friday..then the all party goers...have a continuous summer party...continuos....and my daughter is wearing a pink shirt with white pants holding her sunglaseses in this video....http://vimeo.com/44697264 ; she loves Mongolia..and is a buyer of fashion...travels often...too....

I think birds,and flutterbys,may see air like we see water. Their aerobatics are like our synchronized swimming. So it's my guess that air currents may be subtle shades different...just a guess.... . And thank you all for those kind words of yesterday. It was this village that helped so much to get me through it.

Still burning - anything 2010 or earlier - a mountain of stuff from the days I bred pedigree cats - the delighted new owners will send fuzzy photos to add to the piles of paperwork already in box marked 'Cats' box 3' or whatever. I tried to avoid reading any of it, but did glance upon a note in a box of 'Having the Builders In' to buiders that went along the lines of 'Dear Imbeciles, - Of course you can't get water to the cement mixer if you have parked with the back wheel of your truck on the hose-pipe. Seeing red? Ooooh! I was seeing in Dayglo colours. Vincent, our recent topic, would have loved Dayglo paints. Half wondered if there was a funny coffe-table book in that box of papers - but is it worth revisiting the angst?

Hazel - Wow! As far back as 2010!!? You really are extinguishing your past! What about the cats' records for breeding certificates, and all those tax records? Here, we have to keep our tax records for 5-7 yrs. in case we should get audited and need the proof of what we claimed on the government forms!!

Only 2 years of history kept?? That is erasing a lot of your life for those of us over 60! I can't go that drastic! I'd erase a some of the 50's when my mother was moving from town to town , but then, no....All of those past experiences were learning times and made me the one I am today....I think I don't want to deny any of my past 67 years. Even the sad times give me a point of comparison to appreciate how good life is now. To each his own...if it makes you happy.

Colors...I delight in the colors in flowers...the inner throat of a lily, the deep red of my petunias, the neon pink of the begonias in their hanging baskets at my window, and the velvet crimson of the double hibiscus on the deck! Again, it is odd that the hyper-color vision is to females with color-blind sons! How weird!

RY - Hope you are feeling better today, more UP. The anniversary of a sad time never goes away, but with time becomes less painful. Feb. 13 for me, 17 yrs. ago...I lost my husband, a great love. Therefore, Valentine's Day is tinged with that memory of loss, but still, I have gone on and am now happy again. It is worth surviving. Good thoughts of you and strength going out to you and yours.

I am looking out the window of my little kitchen office at a double or triple curly orange-ish yellow daylily that speaks well of color and Nature. I try to dwell on what is good and what is beautiful in order to be forever grateful...sometimes it works. Best to you.

Are there any color blind Villagers in this group of posters? Just curious.

No one made note of Mr. P's headline reference to Mr. BIV....the time-worn acronym of ROY G BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow: red, orange,yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet......? Didn't we all use that in school to name them?

Apparently, with thousands of shades of those basics, we will have to think of a much longer name for the many colors if we are among those with triple sight!

Where is /are the computer clever people? Of course, Moose, we know Mr BIV - how many times was I cuddled up on the sofa with my son watching/listening to Kermit The Frog doing 'I can sing a Rainbow'

Yea! "The Rainbow Connection" is still one of my favorites.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM

Such beauty and innocence....what's not to like? Good for you sharing it with your son....!

I didn't mention BIV because I didn't know what it was, I never heard of it.   What class did I miss that I was supposed to learn that in?  I slept through all math classes, but this doesn't sound like a lapse in mathematics...I must have slept through a few more classes...????"

Hazel, all this burning of yours is really piquing my curiosity...so far, have you regretted something that you watched go up in smoke?     ....I really want to do this, but I worry that I'll regret...even certain people/person who I do not regret not ever seeing again, that last photo - might I regret it?  And if I do, what does that say?...........................I THINK TOO MUCH.   Je ne regret rien!   I hope so, if I decide to burn a la Hazel....

BEBE:  consider yerself ejikated.  Urban chic acronymnious lifestyles.  We are all better people for you having asked the question...modern day rules of civility? or just not very civilized at all?   PS:  didn't we all have chicken pox?  or, when was the vaccine invented?  I'm still sorry for your husband, there's no getting around that pain.

PS BEBE:  the longer it lasts, the shingles, I'm going to be feeling really sorry for you.  If I recall, my patient's patience was about as long as a short match, and pain killers gave him a headache, and so did I, and life got pretty rocky there until he got better.  So my sympathies to your husband now, and in a short while, my sympathies to you.   You might plan another trip somewhere until he's all better? ;)

It sounds like you mom was one of the few that could see great variations among color shades, ChefDeb.  Did she embroider or crewell or needlepoint?  She would have been great on a William Morrison needlepoint where there are 6 shade of blue and 5 of gray and only under a very good light can you tell the difference among some of them.
 
Prayers for a quick recovery for your husband BEBE. I remember when my Tante Lina had them and how she suffered.

No RUSTY, she did not do crafts but she would have been happy to tell you what you did wrong with yours.

BEBE, as RUSTY and PARK both say, speedy recovery for your husband!! And I am going to mention it to my doctor, thanks for the suggestion. Too hot here to do anything but eat tomato sandwiches.........

I remember Stoney mentioned someone, friend or foe I do not know, inventing and naming a sixth primary color.  Would there be need of other primary colors  to comprise the other 900 million shades that I have not yet seen? This has little to do with color, other than Renoir was a painter.  Barely off color, barely on topic.  I am told it was Renoir who said (but of course he said it in French), "Never trust a man who is not moved by the sight of a pretty breast." I trust Stoney explicitly.

Sorry dear peoples ---- been busy.
Park~ The virtue of burning papers etc is the same as suicide by jumping off a high building - you don't get to change your mind. BIV is Blue, Indigo, Violet - the last three colours of the rainbow. The other part of his name, as Moose said, ROY G - Red, orange, yellow, green.
Eeeeeeeewwwww........... Beeeeeeeb!.......... Man with shingles!!!!!!!!!  Lucky you (not!) Cider vinegar? ....... for him, applied externally and taken with warm water internally while you slurp on a well deserved drink of your choice. ............ Do you or your neighbour have a dog that needs to be taken on long walks?
 
 

paolos~ I'm off to bed thinking of Renoir paintings, and Degas, Gaugin and Toulouse Lautrec ..... all of whom enjoyed a curvaceous mammary gland.
Nos da dear people. x

The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest .......
 
Enjoy the remaining Thirty ....... Don't let your only regret be about those things you didn't experience .......

My doc said the shingles shot is $150, so I called the insurance co. and asked about pre-cert....The gal said it will be partly reimbursed, but not pre-certifie, and she sent me the paperwork.....I think it is still worth it to avoid the misery. My late husband had shingles after he was weakened by the chemo and radiation, and he was miserable with them all around his torso. My father- at 56 - had shingles in his face, right through his eye, and lost some vision as well as the eyebrow on that side. He was in great misery.

Yes, I had chicken pox as most of us did, thus we have the virus in our systems. A word to the wise....even expensive, the vaccine is worth the cost to avoid the attack. I see the doc on Tuesday.

Bebe, sympathy and good health to your husband to heal as quickly as possible. Hope you have good meds and some kind of Zoster cream.

It was on a Manhattan subway that a young man posed this question to his mates: "Is it breastes or breasteses?"
"Tets," he was told.
Just in time as it turned out for him face a young woman and place himself between her and the door toward which she and we were headed.
It would be easy to speculate about what he might have said but all we heard was the word, "prime."
Then, we heard the back of his head hit the floor, a woman exclaim: "Oo-ooh," and his heels drop down together.
There was about the girl no remaining flex or readiness so it is probable that he was not the first person she had dropped.
When his friends made to leave, she said: "Uh-uh, you take care of him and set him straight."
I had my doubts, that kind of stupidity has real staying power.
The girl, in form-fitting workout attire, was striking on more levels than one but you didn't hear that from me.

A little prediction for some of you. A choice to make, a fork in the road. Something inside of you pushing you to take one road or the other. Hazel Leese, maybe that's why you feel compelled to burn your papers from the past. A need for cleansing,good for you! 

bebe, so funny about Burn Notice. I've never seen it, but a couple of years ago a friend came to visit. Admittedly rather ditzy. Anyway, she kept saying Michael says this and Michael says such and such. I finally asked who Michael was...she said he was the main character on Burn Notice. I could hardly believe she was living according to Michael from a TV show.
Sympathy for your mom and husband. Sounds really awful. I've wondered about getting the vaccine...now I think this is the impetus I needed.
Park4, I hope your husband has had no further outbreaks. Do you know, does the vaccine have any effect once you've gotten shingles or .... once stricken, always at risk?

RUSTY, HAZE, PARK, MOOSE, & JANE, many thanks for your kind words. It sounds as if many of you have experienced it also thru a loved one. It is a most bizarre thing. If I had to compare it to a human it would be the bully who relentlessly torments you & then lets up enough for you to think, "He's done w/ me, yay!", but he's noooooooooooooooottttttttttttttttttttt......................
 
PARK...................rules of incivility ideed, perfect!
 
SEAPANSY.........................I love to look at all the gossip magazines when I am in the checkout line at the grocery. A long time ago when Pdiddy was going out w/ Jennifer Lopez he had this big bash at his new Hamptons estate. Many famous people according to the article. It said that he & Ms. Lopez engaged in something very loud w/ the windows open to ensure that the guests around the pool would hear. Something that is normally done in complete privacy unless you are in a porn film.
 
For some reason that stuck w/ me & I think of that whenever I hear his name. VIP he ain't.
 
JANE..............I love the Burn Notice story.......................I'm sure you did a double take when you realized Michael was not a real person................Sharon Gless from Cagney & Lacey plays his mom & they have great chemistry. It's a small cast & they seem like they enjoy each other a lot. No good movies playing unless you are a tween....................We watched Drive last night & it was not what I expected, but I liked it. Very moody.........................get the shot chickletta, get it!
 
MOOSE & PARK...................I imagine that both of you were unbelievably excellent caregivers.........................it's not something that would be easy to go thru alone.....................
 
STONEY....................it's simple, don't be a pigdog to women. why do some young & grown men get it so wrong????????????
 
CHEFD.......................get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"don't be a pigdog to women" -- one reason why I love bebe:  she's always locked and loaded and she's not afraid to fire.  My kind of gal. ;)

My reply to the gentleman at the party over his illness..I told him..we hugged after....you have to pull it together...you have to tighten up wits, strength, rid yourself of self doubt....your personal health battle is something that ......give to you striaght Child birth is a risk...death does occur to women bearing children.......what every women goes through at child-birth...she feels a loss that a part of her is missing...her health, vitlality...and she has to fight for her last bit of strength in order to retrieve..... who she was before child-birth...it is a personal fight when anyone's health is at stake!!!  Recovery is part of the health care that takes its course....it up to you to follow through with the outcome..this is just one thought....sometimes thinking about how others fight their way to good health...can lead you to a healing path...for yourself....Get the GetGo! GoFight...Go Fight....love yourself...meditate...hug yourself...vision good health...pray...rid of negative feelings....try your best...maintain...read, relax and follow your Doctors Rx, Tx and Meds...x...holistic meds....pray...Get Well Be Well....prevention is the best medicine...He is better for it ....asking and praying about good health...