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Corbin_Dallas, I noticed that you were missing.  I see you came back with a vengeance.  I read your political post this morning even though I don't think I commented.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 8:42 PM | link to this | reply

Nautikos, I'm glad that you do drop in now and then though, even if you are out there "having fun".

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 8:41 PM | link to this | reply

HAHAHAHA, I like your slip, Blanche.  Good one!

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 8:40 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS

...which is why I haven't been around much...

posted by Nautikos on October 15, 2006 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

LOL, my typos just are so Freudian: that was supposed to be "on a bagel".

posted by Blanche. on October 15, 2006 at 11:43 AM | link to this | reply

TAPS, crabapple/jalapeno jelly with cream cheese on a belly, sounds divine

  (and I should play some Freddy Fender "Until the next tear drop falls" here, too, it's raining, so it seems fitting).

posted by Blanche. on October 15, 2006 at 11:43 AM | link to this | reply

Your post is.....

right on target........I've spent the last two weeks away just doing.....things!

It was wonderful........

posted by Corbin_Dallas on October 15, 2006 at 11:41 AM | link to this | reply

See how much I got done, ginnieb -

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:48 AM | link to this | reply

Passionflower, does your change as fast as ours?  There is absolutely no comparison here between yesterday and today.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:36 AM | link to this | reply

mneme, I like your way of restoring equilibrium.  I haven't done that in many years.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:35 AM | link to this | reply

Azur, It sounds to me that you've been right busy in spite of the flu and tendonitis.        

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:34 AM | link to this | reply

MarieClaire, I don't have a cider press but there's nothing like a mug of cider with a fresh glazed donut.  (Childhood Halloween memories)

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:32 AM | link to this | reply

Troosha, this day can roll anywhere it wants to (cold and wet and dreary) as long as I have my fuzzy blanket and reclining chair and some Freddy Fender tear drops falling (he passed away yesterday) alternated with my blogging and hot coffee.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:28 AM | link to this | reply

Blanche, what I really want to make is a crabapple/jalopeno jelly.  My jalopenos are bright red and hot as fire and the jalopeno/raspberry jelly is all gone.   You haven't had good jelly until you've had a jalopeno sweet/hot combo on a bagel and cream cheese.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:24 AM | link to this | reply

Justi, I hope you and George had a bit of fun on your busy day yesterday.  I can't play the zither.  How about my concertina?

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 10:20 AM | link to this | reply

heyastuff, Thank you for the extensive comment.  I feel I know you better after that.  lol.  So, I am off to read and greet you on your own turf.

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 9:44 AM | link to this | reply

Hi, Nanaroo.  Today is absolutely the opposite of yesterday here--thick cloud cover, rain, puddles, dripping, bone-chilling wet.  I think its a good day to sit in front of the computer all day long.  LOL

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 9:42 AM | link to this | reply

Whacky, That sounds like something my Mom used to say but she said it in Czech, with a raised eyebrow and while shaking the broomstick in our faces.  LOL

posted by TAPS. on October 15, 2006 at 9:40 AM | link to this | reply

Taps

.. Right ON!

posted by Nanaroo on October 15, 2006 at 9:40 AM | link to this | reply

Mom used to say..Do it now or it won't get done!.

You got some really great pictures!

posted by Whacky on October 15, 2006 at 2:01 AM | link to this | reply

do something, anything, just do it

I loved your post.  I am so much the same way, finding it hard to be inside on a pretty day, especially if I am able to get out and do something.  I stay crazy busy most of the time and go nowhere without at least three things to do with me.  Productiveness or OCD, oh well, get things done and worked on anyhow.  Have a thing for crab apple trees; they are so pretty to look at, and I have made jelly out of them from trees at the local McDonald's because they were beckoning me so.  lol  I really have.  In fact, about 130 jars once.  It is so funny you mention that and have the pic, because they are beckoning now and I am ill and working and parenting and cannot get to the task this time.  Each day I go by the trees, I wish that for a brief time I could clone myself, God help us all!  Just to make preserves out of those damned beautiful crab apples.  When I did that before, the product was consumed at home, given to family and friends as gifts, donated to homeless soup kitchens, and sold for a tiny bit of cash.  I am much the same about situations I see as unfair, and my most recent post of Friday called Life in Words and Pictures (tie me up and burn me down!) is about an issue of ethics that came up in my ethics class.  I would very much like for you to comment, any comment, just comment.  lol  Would love your feedback.  Thanks, Lisa. 

posted by heyastuff on October 14, 2006 at 10:29 PM | link to this | reply

So did ya Taps?

Make hay?  Very cute post!! 

posted by ginnieb on October 14, 2006 at 7:19 PM | link to this | reply

The weather here in North Texas has been so lovely

That it's a crime to stay indoors.

posted by Passionflower on October 14, 2006 at 6:17 PM | link to this | reply

Wonderful post, Taps..

I feel the insistence of time quite keenly these days, and every day spent being unproductive is a waste for me.  I accept the odd hurdle, so long as I can get back on track, and life is too short to be too busy for leisure time.  Of course there are all sorts of ways of being productive! - even sitting on a blanket in dappled shade and just taking it easy is productive.. restoring equilibrium. 

posted by mneme on October 14, 2006 at 6:05 PM | link to this | reply

Good idea, well in the past two days

I have been to the farmers' market, baked and frozen short pastry, baked a lemon cake, cleared the freezer, sat out on the deck and read. Am limited somewhat by fly and tendonitis and so had to pass up a visit to an art gallery and a movie. Now I am going to grade papers and prepare my class for next week.

posted by Azur on October 14, 2006 at 5:29 PM | link to this | reply

taps, sound advice... so what did you do?.... sit at the computer to write

about wasting time at the computer... there is some irony in this.
I love reading your posts, you write so beautifully, tell me is it some special ink you use...Go make some jelly for my belly...before the birds and the worms get them and turn them to rot...Can you make cider? There is nothing I love more than a cool glass of cider, sitting at a Creperie in Britanny...may be some other time. Care to join me?

posted by marieclaire66 on October 14, 2006 at 5:19 PM | link to this | reply

Isn't that the truth - the sign, that is.....

Nice reminder to just get to it - one day does have a tendency to roll into the next.

posted by Troosha on October 14, 2006 at 3:56 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS, I am trying to find a happier medium and balance between blogging

and life myself.  But I agree with Absolutely Positive, your time spent photographing and posting these pictures was not wasted, even if there is crab apple jelly to be made.  I was thinking of making hay while the sun shone myself the other day, as the days waned and drew towards closing, and I don't even have any hay in sight!

posted by Blanche. on October 14, 2006 at 3:44 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS

I'm off to our lake to see if I can hear just one duck quak- aodo-oloo. That was the funniest line. Loved the photographs. Be blessed I got a busy day. Se ya. George said bring that olf earth zither and come on out any time. LOL

posted by Justi on October 14, 2006 at 1:00 PM | link to this | reply

Snooze away, Rumored_Intelligence.  I'm sure you deserve it.

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 11:31 AM | link to this | reply

I didn't have any choice this a.m...had to be to work at 7..

it was a good shift though..got a lot of things done we don't have time for during the week..now I'm ready for a nap....

posted by Rumor on October 14, 2006 at 11:30 AM | link to this | reply

Pat_B, When they get over-ripe, they also draw lots of bees.  I got stung once beneath my Mom's crabapple tree helping her out.  She was the jelly maker.  She always combined crabapples and elderberries into the most wonderful jelly.

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 11:17 AM | link to this | reply

They sure do, Pat_B.  I have one of those in my yard too and it really draws the birds.  Its fun to see them flitting and chirping and all a-flutter.

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 11:15 AM | link to this | reply

About the crabapples...

If you leave them on the tree they will dehydrate a bit and by February, when all other food is snow-covered and can't be reached, the little birds will have something to eat. In case you were feeling guilty about not making crab apple jelly. Returning robins love them.

posted by Pat_B on October 14, 2006 at 10:50 AM | link to this | reply

YPunday, It looks to me like it is kin to the zinnia, but whatever it is, it must be at Betty's Bay.

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 10:25 AM | link to this | reply

As much I'm addicted to Blogit & gr8 friends, I need to be outside. Agreed!

and a South African favorite for you (Guess the name):

posted by ILLUMINATI8 on October 14, 2006 at 9:59 AM | link to this | reply

I'm still here, JanesOpinion, LOL.  But, I have given myself a very short time limit.   Do you really think you can manage yourself.  haha

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 9:46 AM | link to this | reply

Great post, TAPS, and now I think I need to go manage myself!

posted by JanesOpinion on October 14, 2006 at 9:42 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks, AbsolutelyPositive.  I just got through reading you for the first time.  I guess I was visiting you while you were visiting me.  LOL

posted by TAPS. on October 14, 2006 at 9:38 AM | link to this | reply

I love the picture of the crabapples

Your day was well spent and you have produced a lovely image.

posted by AbsolutelyPositive on October 14, 2006 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply