Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and roger)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Besides it being relatively certain the Winter is over, the following is a list of the people, places and things that elicit, inspire and otherwise convince us we have the native personal qualities to allow a reasonable facsimile of the emotion of gratitude.
(Who said ‘Met ah!??!!)
1 – 3 (inclusive)
4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop
6) Visitors to the TToT and/or those considering participating?? The field (which we may search, harvest and (cleverly) package for inclusion in a Ten Things of Thankful post) is not limited to the contemporary and/now …in the last seven days. No! Secret Rule 783.2 clearly intends to validate people, places and things for inclusion in a list provided: (chap 1.4) “...that if questioned by an authoritative figure (incl but not limited to husband/wife/partner, work-spouse, rabbi or that really friendly person at the gas station), we would not feel any guilt about the veracity of our citation… and, failing, ‘would really, really have liked it to have been true’.” [Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) 1823-2025 op. cit]
(Yeah, we’re still on Grat #6*Grat#9>) Drive-in theatres!! Man! As memories go, drive-in theaters totally take the TAT award for the best Memory-legoes! And...and!! a photo as evidence that this is a recovered memory with minimal distortion (emotional and otherwise) of the Hilltop Drive-In (East Greenwich, Rhode Island c 1960-1978)
7) tree removal project 3/4 complete.
Before:
8) something, something
9) hey, come on! you think you were dealing with an amateur here?
10) Secret Rule 1.3
music vids
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About clarkscottroger
I remember the drive in, we’d go in our jammies and by the time we were driven home, my little brothers had to be carried in from the car.
totally
Interesting list of varied activities. Yes, it takes a while to think of entertaining, enlightening and SEO stuff to include in a post.
agree*
*thank god for soc (Stream of Consciousness) writing
Video: Woah. Dizzy—this is like meta-ultrahyper-self-referential.
Why are you removing trees?
We live in a pine forest and pine trees grow very quickly (and, not for nothin’ time passes even more quicklier)… and so, periodically we cut the trees that have (when we were turned in another direction) grown into looming and/or encompassing trees.
(our sunrise and sunset usually lag a couple of hours from the official… what’s that on the horizon? oh, it’s the sun rising/setting.)
we like being in a forest and we have cleared a portion of the acerage to allow a sense of semi-openess to the outdoors
(it was either that or stick gummi bears, nonpareils necco wafers and assorted other confectionaries on the exterior of the house, ya know?)
My parents, once a long time ago, lived in the midst of a pine forest (Dad called them lodge pole pine, I think) and he always said “Once one falls on its own accord, they’ll all go like dominos.”
It’s an interesting ecosystem… as the trees grow they shade the ground and, as a result nothing much below them than pine needles. However, if enough fall over there is usually an opportunistic species of flora ready to pounce.
(favorite joke during windstorms… with nothing but tree trunks to block the sound, when I hear a tree fall over, I jump up and shout, “I heard that!!” cracks me up. every time)
What Mimi said, plus we used to go in high school and hide people in the trunk so they didn’t have to pay to get in. Good times!
ah the days of skeletal flexibility, range of motion and a lack of a mature perspective!