Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Running continuously now for over 79 years, this grat hop is one of the easiest ways to practice the cultivation of gratitude as a… self-development thing. Whatever. (As the most aggravating and annoying ‘wise man quote’ would have you believe: ‘If you have to ask the question, you wouldn’t understand the answer’.
For this week, our Ten Things of Thankful for us are as follows:
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) Speaking of prehistoric lifeforms! No, not your Humble Narrator. We’re talking turtles. (as opposed to tortoises as Lady Manila featured in her TToT last week,)… while doing our video of Dinosaur Alley we noticed a number of turtles, all Busby Berkeley* on a fallen tree. But without the sequined bathing caps.
5) New landscape project! A Maginot Line with the ambition to hold back very aggressive ground vines (photo). (Let’s agree to ignore the historically established weakness in this approach to resisting a more persistent force.) (See: Sand Castles: building against nature. op. cit.)
6) something, something
7) video of Dinosaur Alley (one of the paths down to the pond)
8) Friday is Movie Night. P said, “…maybe a romantic movie.” We said, “Sure!” ‘Warm Bodies‘
9) reasonably heated atmosphere for the week past, high 80’s
10) Secret Rule 1.3
* no! wait, you should be so grateful that you need to look-up ‘Busby Berkeley’ to appreciate our clever reference. getting old isn’t merely understanding the meaning of life, sometimes it’s making ‘young’ people laugh. (Like Floggie Rogers who used to stick out his dentures. Our five-year-old self, growing up on Martha’s Vineyard found that the height of humor.
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I liked the video of the walk to the water. The fallen, dead trees did look like a dinosaurs.
ikr? fun fact: the one on the left (in the video) is a cedar and the one on the right a white pine… the pine fell suddenly in a windstorm but the cedar (very tough trees) leaned over gradually (we use to walk under it for some ‘gift of life’ thrills while it still was above head height)
Enjoyed the paleo-forest video a lot. Very pretty pond. All the best for your week, Clark.
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Fantastic! I wonder where the parent dinos are. It could have taken them a few years for the young to grow to that size.
As we all know, kindness rates way ahead beyond age.
May you see a pleasant week in the coming days. :)
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you as well
What a romantic movie indeed! Loves the photos and the walk… And 79 years? Wowsers…
one of our faves
(don’t tell anyone, but one of my ambitions (in terms of developing skills as a writer) is to become an Unreliable Narrator*)
*surprisingly difficult
Good luck on holding the line. Your posts always make me smile.
By the way, I cannot add my link, it won’t let me upload an avatar.
wth! I had the same problem linking to your site… eventually it accepted it*
* sent an email. more complete an accounting
I finally got it to work. Don’t know what they’ve changed, but we’ll see if my work around continues to function.