Giving Good Head

Oh for God's sake, I'm friggin' blind! I just saw the pic after I posted this response.....

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So the fish breeding angle tickled your imagination did it? You'd be amazed what you can get up to with a generous amount of duct tape! I gotta go to bed, so this is a short one from me for once. G'Night Zig and happy Wood Nymphing!

Yeah, seeing a once dying plant thriving because of your care is a very rewarding experience! That was in fact what got me my previous job as a plant lady... I had no professional experience but the ad in the paper looked so interesting I called up anyway and when the guy asked about my experience I told him I had none, but that friends always brought me their dying plants to nurse back to life. He hired me right there on the phone when he heard that, hehehehe.

By the way, spending some time each evening before you drift off to sleep, recounting with pleasure the days successes, no matter how small or insignificant they might seem, is a very goodpractice to establish!

And thank you for the compliments!

Hmmm... do you have a digital camera? If so you could take a picture of the plant and I might be able to tell you what it is called, if you're interested in knowing it that is, hehehehe.

I once had a friend give me a plant to take care of while she was out of town. My bunny rabbit that I let run around the room ate it down to a nub! I was SOOO stressed out about having to tell my friend what happened, but then when she came back she never even asked about that plant!

I didn't learn my lesson with that experience either because a few years later I let another bunny that I had somehow acquired out on the front porch to get some fresh air and exercise, not even registering the fact that the lovely, HIGHLY AROMATIC pot plants that my boyfriend was growing were all sitting out there enjoying the sunshine too. That friggin' bunny munched them ALL down to nubs and disappeared into the woods beside the house.

I wish I did have a camera! I would really love to know what
kind of plant this is! I love the bunny stories! Those bunnies
must have had some story to tell too! I would have loved to
see them after they finished eating those plants! They must
have some case of the munchies!

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Hahahahaha.... you want me to identify that begonia flower from those 1500 other types of begonias that you mentioned, that all look pretty friggin' similar!

I actually don't know much about Begonias. I only know the Angel Wing because of the Chinese Laundry episode.

I was never much into the Grateful Dead, but your photo reminds me of one of my favorite songs of theirs called 'Scarlet Begonias'....

'She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes.
And I knew without askin she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.'

Boy, too bad we didn't live in the same town... well, actually not as I could not deal with 105 degree weather! But I am saving wine bottles for my Earthship - I have a zillion lovely bottles! And if YOU lived in an Earthship your indoor temps would probably not be 85 degrees!

Every year morning glories pop up like crazy in our garden and last year they were just so beautiful I collected all the seeds... I have zillions of those now too! Too bad they weren't the Heavenly Blues, I might try eating a few hundred, hehehehehehe.

Yeah, I really like the idea of hydroponic gardening and one day I will have to try my hand at it, but me and dirt get along real well, hehehehe.

I think that is why Morning Glories are illegal to grow in Arizona. SO BUMMER. I was SO into the idea of building my own earthship a while back, but probably won't get around to it any more...haven't sold the land though. You just never know what is going to happen, but that idea of using pretty bottles for light shafts is so awesome. Yeah, I bought a bunch of books and made a bunch of plans, but as another myLottian recently said "Life got in the way."Well the version I knew was "bells on her toes" but that ditty was about Lady Godiva, presumably, of whom it was said that the bells warned the townspeople to close their curtains so she could ride modestly through town with no clothes and thus win the bet and help the people, but even so I am sure some peeked, and some of them may have been named Tom, but that reference came 6 centuries later! Of course some believe the rhyme is about Queen Elizabeth, but oral history is often truer than what is written in books and that nursery rhyme together with the Lady Godiva story was told me by female ancestors who had it told to them from theirs for generation upon generation so I believe it to have originated before Elizabethan times. Lady Godiva lived and died in the eleventh century AD and Elizabeth died in 1603, but here it is:

Ride a c*ck horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes

Ackkkk, the censors got me, and over a nursery rhyme. What is this world coming to?

It is illegal to grow morning glories in Arizona?!?!?! That is as weird as mylot censoring a nursery rhyme! What about the ones growing wild? Do they have morning glory police who go along and rip them all out of the ground???

Well, I have to say, my enthusiasm for building my own Earthship has waned a bit since watching every video I could get my hands on, and reading other people's accounts of the building process... that is a LOT of sledge-hammer wielding! And you have to have some other skills that I don't have as well, so, until I have a carpenter for a boyfriend or something my Earthship goal is simmering on the back burner.

You're right out there near New Mexico... have you ever walked through one? I would certainly LOVE a few tours of them!

Oh yeah... I've heard that before! Hahahaha... so the Grateful Dead was singing nursery rhymes! Although for sure they weren't singing about Lady Godiva OR Queen Elizabeth!

I don't believe it is possible for there to be only one 'true' account of any event in history (or even in present time) because of the perspective factor. I say it makes more sense to just believe whatever you want to believe!

Yeppers, I too am a really BIG fan of believing what you want to believe.

Arkansas has Morning Glories on their Invasive Plants Grow-It-and-Go-to-Jail list too, although I rather doubt that it is strictly enforced. But it cannot be about being invasive because last I heard KUDZU was legal:

http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/sculptureimages/roadside_1332.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA yep, I think you're right! When I first came back up to the mountain here, my mother had these vines that had begun taking over her back yard... it was covering everything in the back quarter of the yard... the fences, the shed, an old plow she had out there for decoration... it was like a thick green carpet... and spreading at a very speedy rate. At first I thought it might be 'mile-a-minute' kudzu but then it started flowering... it was honeysuckle! Last I heard honeysuckle is not illegal to grow either!

Boy, I really look forward to the time when people finally realize that it is not what anybody else is doing that creates insecurity and unhappiness in their lives, it is the thoughts they are thinking that creates the insecurity and unhappiness. It is a very misguided belief that says 'I can only feel secure and happy if nobody else is doing anything that I don't agree with'.

This talk about growing morning glories reminds me of a funny story, overall it was funny but parts of it was scary. I had a vine of morning glories, they were so pretty, didn't think nothing of them. Well my dog discovered them, yep she developed a taste and fondness for them. It seemed she wasn't acting her usual self, she was also spending lots of time hanging out in the back of the yard. It took me a couple of days to figure it out, she was basically addicted to the morning glories. I checked with poison control on the symptoms of ingesting morning glories, yep she had them all. I went out and pulled up all the vines, she looked at me so sad. lucky for her she was a large dog, about 100 lbs. who knows if she had been smaller if it could have killed her. it took several days for the effects of the morning glories to get out of her system and for her to be back to normal.

Great story, and I think maybe that is another reason why so many people say morning glories aren't good houseplants, but lately I've found others besides myself who love to grow them indoors. I've uploaded photo of a morning glory that had a big bud last night and is blooming in my kitchen this morning...in a jar of water.

Morning Glories are a beautiful flower, I hated to have to get rid of it. But I had to due to my dog taking a liking to it.

Does the little nipper eat sweet peas, too? They are also very pretty in the kinds of places morning glories grow, but all parts of the plant are also toxic. Sweet potato vines and nasturtiums are edible, however, and they make good cover on fences, etc., too.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... I know THAT feeling! I have a cat whose name is Montezuma. He is the color of a lion and his paws are just about as big as a lion's paws, he is very solidly built with a very macho attitude - in fact he likes to 'run with the big dogs' and drives my dog crazy wanting to hang out with him all the time. He does not like to be picked up, petted, or even touched for that matter, although he does like to be patted vigorously on the butt, and the day he let me pick him up and flip him over and cradle him in my arms like a baby is a day I won't quickly forget... it was such a triumph!

Oliver will actually "flip" himself into the baby possition, and he's always insecure when we have new kittens because he thinks he's "the baby"

Fortunately all my cats are pretty nonchalant about new additions to the family. The neighbor's cat had started coming in through their cat door and helping himself to snacks of their food and they pretty much yawned and looked the other way. It's a good thing they are like that too because I am like a stray magnet, hehehehe.

You are? then what am I at 29?

HUH???

I have 29 cats...

OH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Well, I'd say you were a stray magnet too! The most I ever had at one time was 20!

Right now I only have 3, and I feed a couple of kitties that live in an abandoned house nearby. I would bring them home with me but I am living right on a highway and they have been living back up in the mountain far away from traffic so I am concerned that I would be bringing them down here to die. They love their house and I love walking back up there to visit with them so it is a very nice arrangement.

actually, it seems that people go - well, lookie this cat I found, I'LL CALL ELIC!!! She'll take it in!

Yes, IT IS and I AM! Thank you!

PS: What does 'WTG' stand for?

WTG, "Way To Go" its a good thing.

Oh, of course! Hehehehe... yeah, I know what 'way to go' means.

I read your comment about your dog with the morning glories up in drannhh's post and I am wondering what would have compelled the dog to eat it?!? What were his symptoms?

She basically was eating them and getting high. Back in the 60's people would eat the seeds and get high. Its like doing LSD. She just wasn't acting like herself, she wasn't eating or drinking normal. She was sort of slow, lethargic, not with it. Plus she wanted to just hang out back by the morning glories. Apparently she liked it, she wasn't very happy when I pulled them all up and threw them in the trash.

Hahahahaha... and you are off to a very good start too I'd say! Thank you for the compliment - and the same back to you!

Cloud nine is a marvelous address to have - 'please send all communication to mohinimandokhot, cloud nine.com' hehehehe. Have fun!

Wow. That is a lot of transition, transformation and expansion going on in your life positive! No wonder I haven't heard much from you recently!

I am rather shocked to hear that Puttu is no longer with you in physical form. It's so easy to think in terms of life being a static, with everyone and everything that you know continuing to exist forever in the form that you have come to identify them with. Until you are face to face with experiences that demonstrate the true, ever-changing, transitory nature of physical life that is.

I see you haven't lost your sense of humor though! " Most Indians' idea of success is to take a big loan and get settled in America..."

I just lost a chicken to some kind of predator the other night... I deliberately left their little door open one night because it was so hot and stuffy in their chicken house. I won't do that again. Why did you stop breeding chickens? And why were they all dying? Inquiring minds want to know.

But you are definitely underplaying the VERY HEADY success of overcoming depression... I have done it myself so I know what a truly marvelous accomplishment it is! You are not fooling me for one minute with this 'no big deal ' attitude!

Have you ever made a mango lhasi? I cannot get mine to taste the way they did in Calcutta...of course I'm using frozen mangoes and store-bought yogurt from American cows so no surprise there, but still it seems like there would be something I could add that would make it more 'authentic' tasting! That is a success I would surely LOVE to add to my list of successes!

Long, long ago (well, not so long ago), when my great grandparents were alive, they would toss a bit of iron into a roaring big wood fire; and when the bit of iron was red hot, they would toss it into a pan of water and give it to the little chicks to drink. The chicks would grow up strong and healthy and they would never fall sick and die. Now, I couldn't give my chicks this treatment because we live in a "civilized" world and we don't have roaring big wood fires anymore, just a gas stove. So, I just headed off to the vet and got him to give me some medication with iron in it. This was a blood red powder, which the vet just wrapped in a bit of newspaper. It worked wonders! I did not lose a single chick after that.

Why don't I breed chicks anymore? Well, I have many reasons. I can't eat them up if I raise them; I get too fond of them. Now, thanks to my weekly sessions in front of the "homa" (sacrificial fire), I just can't eat any meat and fish. I have developed an allergy to it. I am simply struggling to think of some good vegetarian dishes. Second, I like to leave them free, and if I leave them free in this area (full of half-witted neighbors), they (the chicks) will get into serious trouble.

I have never made lassi.:) Nobody drinks it at home. We just use sour curds. I think lassi is just sweet curd. You add a lot of sugar and a bit of mango juice to curd and put it in the blender. There are no secret ingredients. You have to come down to India, use Indian curd and fresh, ripe, luscious mangoes from someone's garden and you will get the right taste. Here is a video that might be of help.

http://video.about.com/indianfood/How-to-Make-Mango-Lassi.htm

Cheers and happy Mylotting

Thanks for that video! Yeah, there were no 'special' ingredients... I thought some kind of spice went in it. I've got two fresh mangoes and 3 quarts of 'organic' yogurt. I hope the fresh mango tastes better than the frozen mango!

Yeah, the animal control guy just came out to my house because I was letting my mother's chickens run around free while she is staying with my sisters. The neighbors around here apparently do not agree with freedom.

I would not be able to kill a pet chicken and then eat it either. But I don't have any problem whatsoever gathering eggs and cooking them up!

Sorry about the huge delay in my response but I had a big work order to fill and then my kids came for a week and I was going to wait until things were not so hectic around here... but I just got another great big work order so I figured I was going to have to watch that video and respond to your post right now before I even got started. Thanks again!

My brother likes to tell the story of how a tomato plant saved his sanity and his life. He was suffering from mercury poisoning and feeling hopeless and suicidal, and had been feeling that way for awhile. Then one day he noticed a cherry tomato plant that one of his roommates had planted. As he looked at it he was inspired to action... he pruned it and tied the vines to a trellis, etc. He became absorbed with tending that plant, and spent time every day taking care of it. And it was his interest in that plant that brought him out of his depression!

If you are looking into shadowy spaces then you are going to see shadows. If you want to walk in the light then you have to turn your attention to the light... wherever you can see it, even if it's only just a fleeting glimmer.

The night my father died I met him in dreamstate. I did not know he had died, but he had a big backpack on his back and was checking out of a hotel that he had been living in for quite some time. I laughed at him and told him he looked like a vagabond. His eyes were sparkling with eagerness to be off on his new adventure and he replied "I'm about as vagabond as you can get!" We saluted each other and he headed off down the road.

The next day I learned that he had withdrawn his consciousness from the physical body that he had lived in for these years and was being pronounced dead by certain standards. But I knew otherwise... he was off on some glorious new adventure! There was no grief for me in that knowing.