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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    Morning Arlene,

    I like easy.  I need to apply easy in my life more often.  Banging my head against the wall is not the easy way!

    Bren

  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 757
    edited January 2011

    Hi, all.  Hi, Bren.

    This is a test.  This is only a test.  If this were a real post, it would say something coherent. Some of you probably know what I'm talking about.  The rest might be worrying I've buried an acorn somewhere and I can't find it.  (Get it?)

    Anyway...  See y'all later!

    otter

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    Otter .. it's nice of you to drop in.  Great bunch of gals on this thread.  You don't have to be an atheist to post here, just a kindhearted person with an open mind!  Which you are both!

    hugs,

    Bren

  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 757
    edited January 2011

    [Post edited by otter to remove unnecessary drivel, and to add a quote from Arlene's previous post]...

    Easy is right. Begin right
    And you are easy.
    Continue easy and you are right.
    The right way to go easy
    Is to forget the right way
    And forget that the going is easy.

    I think I'll drop in here more often.  It's a much safer, more charitable place than some others I've been in lately.  Actually, if I didn't have so darn many posts in my posting history, it might be more obvious why I feel perfectly comfortable here.  ;o)

    otter

    [Edited as noted above]

  • molly52
    molly52 Member Posts: 142
    edited January 2011

    Arlene, I like that.  So true.  I need more easy also.

  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 624
    edited January 2011

    Arlene and Molly -- Do you remember the "Deep Thoughts" segment that Air Farce used to do?  (Air Farce was the CBC version of Saturday Night Live, for all you Americans).  Anyhow, here is my Deep Thought for the day; it's called The Senility Prayer:

    "Grant me the senility to forget the people I don't like,

    The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and

    The eyesight to tell the difference."

  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 278
    edited January 2011

    Easy is.....who??  My brain is tied up in knots now.

    Good morning, everyone!

  • molly52
    molly52 Member Posts: 142
    edited January 2011

    LOL!!!!!!!    Air Farce!   I think I have a VHS tape of them somewhere.

  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 278
    edited January 2011

    Speaking of Deep Thoughts, I live my life guided by this one:

    "I'd rather be rich than stupid."

    Really makes you think, doesn't it?

    E

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    E ... I would rather be rich in lots of things than stupid on one thing!

    But cold hard cash would also be a benefit!  Ha!

    Bren

  • molly52
    molly52 Member Posts: 142
    edited January 2011

    I don't know E - it's hard to choose. (LOL)

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited January 2011

    I've been lurking for quite awhile but finally posted in another thread so since I got that first post out of the way I wanted to pop in here. I went back and read this whole thread and I think it's my favorite one here. I haven't quite decided I'm an atheist. I consider myself agnostic. I like to think there's something bigger than myself but I have no idea what that thing is. The closest I've come is that the spark of humanity that infuses most of us is what is sacred to me, that and nature.



    I don't believe that someone gave me cancer or that someone will take it away, but beyond that I'm still kind of evolving.

  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 398
    edited January 2011

    Hi River Rat - we have lots of river rats where I live, too - on the St. Lawrence river. What's your river?? and do you have a boat? welcome!

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited April 2012

    Hi Souad, thanks for the welcome. We have a 17' bowrider. We haven't put it in the water much in the last few years because life has been so busy but we are looking forward to summer and hoping to get out on it more this year.

    Do you have a boat?
  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 398
    edited January 2011

    Yes, a plastic one I think about 18 ft long, inboard. Old. the nice thing about it is for after swimming you climb up onto a wide back "deck" to sunbathe. but we didn't have it in this year either. I don't really like driving it - prefer a smaller outboard - but.....will do it to get to nice swimming. that was the last thing i did before my MX, took it out the day before & went for nice, long swim. and took some cheesecake pics of me with 2 boobs.LOL Does one swim in the Detroit River? (not that ours is so pure)

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2011

    Hi River Rat, welcome aboard..

    I am a Lake rat I guess but now I live by an ocean

    with no boat...the beaches are nice!!

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited April 2012

    We don't swim in the river but sometimes take the boat out on a lake and swim.  We used to pull the kids around waterskiing. They're grown now and the grandkids are starting to talk about trying. I don't know if I'm ready for that or not.

    We have pics in common. ;) But we took mine at home instead of out on the boat. Kind of wish I had thought of that though.

    I think I'm about out of posts for the day so if that's the case I will check back here tomorrow.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2011

    When I was in college, I spent summers with my grandmother at her lake place

    and I had a job teaching swimming at t local gym, I used to water ski to work and

    back. It was about 5 miles each way . I would have on my shorts and my  shoes

    tied around my neck and wait for him on the end of the dock. He would throw

    me the rope and off I went; let go when we got to town; put on my shoes and

    walked to work..same thing in reverse going home. Of course, I couldn't do it in

    bad weather or really choppy waves..

    Great memories

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited January 2011

    Hi, SoCalLisa. Your memories have got me smiling, sounds great. I don't ski, just pull the others around. My specialty is floating. I wondered before my BMX if I would be able to float once the boobs were gone. I'm happy to report that my special talent is still there. ;)



    Thanks for the welcome.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2011

    riverrat...we put a pool in 30 years ago and I can float

    and fall asleep...I have lots of fat to keep me there

  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 398
    edited January 2011

    me too! sometimes I'm just floating like that, not moving, in the river, and I realize I have to move my hands or feet a bit so boats going by won't think I'm a floating corpse ha ha ha. oh yes lots of fat to keep me up.

    I thought that when my partner used to go to work by mortorboat that was the height of best ways to get to work - but waterskiiing??? how fab is that???

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    Welcome River Rat ... I think floating along staring up at the sky sounds lovely.  I think I Iike floating much better than water skiing or tubing.  My chubby belly is a perfect innertube!

    Hugs to all,

    Bren

  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 612
    edited January 2011

    I'm a mountain rat. Don't much care for the water except to gaze upon it and reflect. So, give me a lake that I can hike to in the mountains...and the reast is easy!

    Loved that "easy" piece. Great food for thought.

    I'm so thankful for the serenity here right now after all the shennigans on other threads. I need a Zen moment!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2011

    Bren, what is that picture of in your avatar??

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    Hi Guys .. just wanted to let you know that I got a note from River Rat, our newest member to the thread.   She's on a 5 post a day limit and said she would be back to post as soon as the 24-hours is up!

    Thanks,

    Bren

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited January 2011

    Hi Lisa .. it's a squirrel with it's ears flying!!  I changed avatars to honor a friend of mine who had a squirrel as her avatar.  She left BCO after being banned, but I wanted to remember her for awhile. I even named my avatar Roxy!!  I know, I'm silly!

    hugs everyone,

    Bren

  • Maya2
    Maya2 Member Posts: 244
    edited January 2011

    Hi, dropping back by. Felt I should leave a couple other threads which got downright unfriendly. Welcome River Rat.

  • river_rat
    river_rat Member Posts: 317
    edited January 2011

    Hello all. Thank you for welcoming me. Thanks, BinVA for relaying my message.



    Talking about the water and floating really has me looking forward to summer. We're supposed to get a doozie of a storm Tuesday night/Wednesday. I imagine many of you are faced with the same.



    So if I end up snowed in I'm going to spend some meditation time imagining that I'm floating. Then if that doesn't work I'm going to pop in my Monsoon Wedding DVD and fix some chai.





  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 100
    edited January 2011

    I'm just a ways up river from river_rat, and I actually *have* been swimming in the Detroit River (which is technically a strait).  I've always believed that the beach on Belle Isle (an urban park on an island in the middle of the river) is cleaner than Metro Beach, out in the suburbs, where the river widens into Lake St. Clair.  I think it's because the river's faster flow carries the icky stuff away. And no one who's not from here believes this, but on a sunny summer day, the Detroit River can be an amazing, shimmering turquoise.

    Now, of course, it's grey and icy.  I'm hoping the big storm misses us.  I have tickets to see one of my favorite bands - the Decemberists - on Wednesday night, and it would suck if the weather screws that up.

    Here's a quote that I'm sure is older than dirt, but new to me.  It's about faith, broadly defined:

    Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

    (This thread is such a great place to be.)

     L

  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 1,418
    edited January 2011

    This thread is so cool compared to some other threads that are way too hot.  It is always a joy to read the comments here.

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