Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Kristi is our host. She invites one and all to stop in, read and, if so moved, add a post of Ten Things of Thankful to the mix.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

For us, the following qualify as Grat Items:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) Whole house generator. See that top photo? Taken on Tuesday of this week. Whatever hurricane-ette was passing by, well to the west, produced some nice special effects. It also knocked down a tree in our neighborhood, resulting in a loss of power from say, four o’clock in the afternoon until midday Thursday. The sound of our generator rumbling outside the house, nice

4) If the mountain will not come to Muhammed(Peace be upon him)… then ask Phyllis. I should elaborate. If you insist. So our stove chose to break (a little) this week, after the storm. The cooktop works, the display, (and its controls of the oven), went dead. So, minor repair, no? Well sure. And a Grat. The stove is somewhere along the lines of 15 years old. Thats not the problem. The problem is the house. Or, to be more concise, the countertop on either side of the stove. One side effect of the house settling over the years is that the countertops have pulled a little away from the wall. As the photo demonstrates, if the counter moves away from the wall, it will press on the stove. We once tried to move the stove and barely got it back in place.

Yet, with the humility the above proverb, Phyllis approached the issue and succeeded in moving the mountain.

5) Toying with a new serial (or two). The second Ian Devereaux novel and a story having to do with the Order of Lilith, Jack the Ripper and Victorian London.  Should be fun.

6) My imagination and the Wakefield Doctrine. So, Wednesday I was working in the woods. Mostly moving something heavy from one place to another. It did, however, require a shovel, a rake, a hoe and the wheelbarrow. Good workout. Almost totally exhausting. Upon bringing said implements back to the house, I noticed that my prodigal lopper* was not among the gathered tools. Unlike last week, I knew where I’d left them…hanging on a tree branch. Down at the pond.

As I moved with the slow reluctance of the physically exhausted, which tends to involve a controlled fall in the desired direction, trusting one of two feet to stay ahead of the upper torso, the thought came, as it often does at such times, “Suppose you were in a bed that you will never leave? And someone allowed you one more trip away from the bed and this walk was it?” It made a difference.

The Wakefield Doctrine in this Grat? There is no way in the multiverse I would have written this outloud had not I the availed myself of the perspective available in everyone’s favorite personality theory.

7) Six Sentence Story. You know that corner of the sock drawer that becomes the Home for Orphan Socks? The Six Sentence Story bloghop is like that… how, on occasion, and provided your trousers were long enough, you might put together a pair from one brown-in-the-shade sock with a blue-so-dark-they-wouldn’t-even-know-your-name.**

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABE Because sometimes its nice to try something out before totally committing. Send in a Grat, I’ll paste it right here.

9) something, something.  

10) Secret Rule 1.3   …Because we’re responsible adults and, if we need to find an exception or append an addenda, who are we to say ya can’t? However, even the BoSR (aka SBoR) is not a total Get Out of Jail Card. It, (the Book), is a powerful tool, however, to utilize it, one is expected to demonstrate a competent understanding of it’s capabilities and share a healthy respect for something that, in the blogosphere, has been described as thesaurus for rhetoric.

* the full backstory in last week’s TToT (Item 6)

** ‘Cheap Sunglasses’ ZZ Top

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