"WEATHER FOR TONIGHT: DARK. TURNING PARTLY LIGHT BY MORNING!"

 George Carlin was correct on that one!!  When you analyze what a weather forecaster is, it is merely "ONE WHO PREDICTS THE WEATHER".  Now, I would like a job where all I have to do is PREDICT!! Wouldn't you?  Who wouldn't?  The interesting thing about a weather forecaster is, it doesn't matter if they are right or totally wrong!  They still keep their job.  I spose that wouldn't work too well in the medical profession that I am in. . . making a wrong prediction that is.

SACRAMENTO FORECAST THIS MORNING

So what got me started on this subject?  I was doing my stint at the gym in Elk Grove, which is a mere 10 miles from my home.  As I was leaving, the sun was shining and it was just a beautiful day,as was predicted by the forecaster.  Proceeding home, I saw dark clouds and then lightening.  As I drove down my driveway, it was pouring and a good thunderstorm was in progress. Now this had been "PREDICTED" for Friday, which remained sunny and warm, but not for today. Never the less, my garden welcomed the rain and the sweet smell of the rain was delightful.

WILTON WEATHER IN "REAL"TIME

HERE'S A PROFOUND QUOTE!!!

 "The best thing one can do when it's raining---

is to let it rain."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA!!

I believe I shall!!

"WHILE I WAS SLEEPING!!"

The garden is coming along and I have been nursing my basil back from almost total annihilation by the slugs and sow bugs. Harvesting Arugala daily for my lunches. Yum. 

 But I just figured that the squash had a ways to go.  After all, wasn't it just yesterday that it was planted? Then Ernie mentioned today that I had some "baby" zucchinis and I had better take a look. YOW!!  There were already some "adults" waiting for harvest.  

 INVASION OF THE  ZUCCHINI MONSTERS.

 One day you have an innocent looking squash blossom, then seemingly, overnight it morphs into a 2 pound, foot long zucchini that you can barely carry to the kitchen.

Time to get out my recipe book:

 1000 WAYS TO FIX ZUCCHINI

IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!?!?!?

"I am going to clean the house for you tomorrow and wash your car," Kevin said to me last night as I was about to go to bed. Wow, I thought that sounded just great. 

 

BREAKFAST IN BED!

 I woke up to my boys boisterously bantering in the kitchen and warned to STAY IN BED!  Shortly after, I was served a home-cooked breakfast and the Sunday paper. El had prepared the waffles from scratch and served an excellent cup of coffee. I also got a lesson how to properly make a great cup of joe, which I hadn't a clue. 

EAT YOUR HEART OUT!

 I had to try it myself and found it was even good without the cream and sugar.  Here is how: Use a cone with filter.  Hot water(not boiling) is poured directly over the coffee grinds which then drips into the cup. 

"This makes a very true cup of coffee, bringing out the full flavor of the coffee bean without compromise!"

  The morning was quite enjoyable, hanging out with the boys.  Never a dull moment!!

 Then Kevin and I spent a couple hours at the gym working our butts off!!. . . Now I am just relaxing, reminiscing about all those "mother moments" through the years!! The thrill of victory, the pain, the agony of the feet!?!?

 And the clean house and car shampoo. . . . Maybe next year!?!?!?
 It was a great idea at the time. . . . .  And after all it is the thought that counts.

FLO

FLO

It is NURSES WEEK. . . and I just thought we should give Flo a few kudo's for all she did to lay the foundation for nursing as we know it today. . . 

BABY FLO

When I was in nursing, I sort of resented her cause she was held in such high esteem and  "what would Flo have done?"  was reverberating in my head as I did 'unlike Flo' things.  But now as I have learned more about her. . . She was a pretty incredible woman.  I would have loved her maverick, no-nonsense attitude. I can just see her stepping into a hospital unit, opening the curtains, and throwing open the windows, splashing the room with color from her magic wand.

"I use the word nursing 
for want of a better.
 It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. 

It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet."

She was one empowered woman!! And way ahead of the times!! One of the first woman activists to making the world a better place!! 

She had a voice and she used it!!

"The very first requirement in a Hospital that 
 it should do the sick no harm. 

"Women never have a half-hour in all their lives that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone." [1852] 

WOW--Not much has changed in 2012!!!!!!!!

"The object and color in the materials around us 

actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.” 

“I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.”  

 

" How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

"Nursing is an art: 
and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation,
 as any painter's or sculptor's work; 
for what is the have to do with dead canvas or dead marble,
 compared with having to do with the living body?
 It is one of the Fine Arts:

 THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS."

Retired nurse