Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Sunday Morning. Half-day off. Photo says it all.
Let me state, for the record and without qualification, that I am grateful for the external reality-based fact that:
1) and 2) it’s nearly 40 degrees out and it’s only 8:00 am
2) Daylight Savings Time. (…yeah, minus one grat item for losing the early morning light)
3) Daylight Savings Time! ( yeah! because now it’ll be light until like….6 pm or something)
5) Using the following youtube clip, (loved Nadia, it was a fun cooking show)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oy8sIN3oow5) Given that the cable company in my area has seen fit to hide all the good cooking shows…(gotta subtract one)
6) and 7) and 8) and 9) seeing the Doctrine on a grat list… it’s hard to describe the feeling, so I won’t other than to say, ‘hey! thanks for the thought….is this a Doctrine, or what?’
8) realizing how much more there is to be done (in this Wakefield Doctrine as a tool and all-around fun and useful thing (this is not a complaint… the simple fact of the matter is, writing this blog has never been work. I’ve always gotten more out (of it) than it’s taken from me.)
8) …that I’m writing this Post is nothing less than miraculous, and the oddest thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that the more it ‘works’ (as a tool to self-improving oneself) the less amazing it all seems. that’s one of the funny thing about ‘miracles’. There’s absolutely no question (in my reality) that miracles happen all the time… that’s not the ‘hard part’. The challenge is to see and recognize them. The thing about miracles, in my opinion, is that they tend to change reality retroactively, the result being that it becomes easy for some to say, ‘oh that? well, that was just a coincidence!‘ This person, (actually a high percentage of the people who are fortunate enough to witness a miracle), can ‘re-trace’ the events that lead up to the event and feel safe and secure in the thought that, ‘that was just a coincidence’. I believe that most people would rather believe in coincidence than to have to deal with a world, where reality that is so….very uncertain.
9) enough with the metaphysics…. off to work and then maybe some work in the woods… yeah! nothing like a winter without exercise followed by a weekend of overexertion!! lol check back here later I promise photos hell, here is a ‘before photo’ down at the pond we have on the property, aka of the scene of the incipient tragedy:
10) 10? (yeah, I agree! I have totally lost track of the plusseses and minae of today’s List. but there’s a chainsaw calling to me from the shed…and she promises me a very exciting afternoon in the woods….lol)
…psst no chainsaw adventures, left it in the shed, preferring to go more primitive… saw and clippers
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FRUST! i love that bitchin kitchen!!!! frist! and your photos!
Damn! the only jean beat me to it! I was this close…
I’d love to live in a place where I could have my own private skating “rink”. I love to ice skate, roller blade, roller skate. The faster the better:)
A little bit o the daylight savings account and we all go crazy! So what am I doing here?!
Good post today Clark. May your chainsaw be gentle.
Wow, that property of yours looks like so much fun! Sure, it’s work, but you get to ice skate! Be careful with the chain saw.
Christine
yeah, has some woods (and the pond in the photo) has been an interesting diversion over the years that we have been here… I’ll take a photo of the Ola Bridge that I built when we first got here (and re-built a number of times since, it keeps rotting because of the occasional spring flood puts it under water and I don’t like pressure treated lumber)
yes, ma’am
lol
Winter. I’m not sorry to see her go. I can’t wait for Spring to come and stay. :D
Is that Ona up there?
Cyndi
actually, that’s Bella (from about maybe 7 or 9 years ago)… Phyllis and Bella enjoyed the occasional hockey or is that curling??
Did you make it?
If by ‘make it’ you mean return from the woods un-harmed…yes
Good-o
That “incipient tragedy” line just makes me nervous….or is it the chainsaw?
zoe
I ended up not bothering with the chainsaw and chose to work along the stream, trying to clear some damming with clippers and sheer pluckiness… lol pitchas on the bottom of today’s Post
Cool bridge….does una run around out there? How do you spell her name?
I am jealous of your woods. Unless there are a bunch of ticks who live in them in which case ew.
Kristi
and worse! that’s why this is the best time of year for working in the woods…everything scary is asleep or hibernating or in their damn ol pods or whatever the hell they do in the off season
I’m one of the few people that don’t mind Daylight Savings, the kids waiting for the bus don’t have to wait in the dark, so there’s that. They would just keep losing their owner’s helmets and spreading lice in them.
Praise Mother Nature for warmer temps and melting ice!
Nadia is awesome. So funny.
Sorry you didn’t get your chainsaw date, raincheck?
Joy
yeah, loved her show, not on in our area anymore (or at not on basic cable).
the chain saw remains in the shed, it is (one of my) favorite scary tools… scary because it has a way of talking, “…see? not so bad, hey you’re pretty good, lets chop down something really big!”