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Lonely Boy
Paul Anka

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do
I've got everything
You could think of
But all I want
Is someone to love

Someone, yes, someone to love
Someone to kiss
Someone to hold
At a moment like this
I'd like to hear
Somebody say
"I'll give you my love
Each night and day"

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do
I've got everything
You could think of
But all I want
Is someone to love

Somebody, somebody, somebody, please
Send her to me
I'll make her happy
Just wait and see
I've prayed so hard
To the heavens above
That I might find
Someone to love

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do

   
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
 -John Steinbeck

   
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
 -Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher

   
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.
 -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher

   
In a world where time seems to stretch on infinitely, stories never end. Each page becomes a new journey, where characters, dreams and mysteries intertwine in an eternal cycle of discovery. "Endless Tales" is an invitation to dive into narratives that unfold endlessly, taking the reader to places where imagination knows no limits. Each tale is a portal, each word an echo of an adventure to come. Here, stories are eternal, and those who venture into them never stop exploring.

Sorry for opening this page so late: I overslept! 

That's okay, Bubble, not many of us are up that early (here).

Rammel, I tried turning my Keurig over to get rid of the water (twice), but it didn't work either time - not a drop.

The sun is just about ready to pop up. Still no sign of deer in the grass patch or along the treeline. Sigh! But the birds are repopulating the area and entertaining Oscar and Shan. Saw a flash of red whizz by the other day, but it was too fast for me to tell what it was.

My larger daffodil flower stocks are about five or six inches up out of the ground. Yesterday I noticed that only one little Tête-à-tête bud was about to bloom. This morning when I opened the blinds, I discovered at least a half-dozen of them fully in bloom.

Good morning...

A bit windy out but no new snow or rain with a temp of 24°F at the moment.

On the news last night they are asking poeple to stay in if possible,with the ice on branches they could come down. Limbs  up to 8 inches in diameter came off my friends maple and she is not sure if it will survive or should just be taken down. They say we are in for more rain/snow on Wed. Still no power is a lot of places.

Today is "whatever" needs to be done and "if" I want to do it.

Bubble, again you have out done yourself!!! Definitely well worth waiting for and if you slept in you must have needed it!  Thank you!

MG, no sign of any flower trying to bloom here, rhubarb had polkked it nose up but now covered in snow.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I passed by the office on my way to bed last night and the thought crossed my mind that I should check in with all of you.  Now, when I see that it's a new month and BUBBLE has welcomed it in her special way, I'm kind I glad I kept on going down the hall.  THANK YOU< BUBBLE for all the hard work you do.  And if it's a bit late, it doesn't show to me!  Our times are so different that when I get here you're probably just about ready to close up for the day!  I loved everything in your opening!  And I appreciate all that you do for us!

AMY, it's cold here today, too!  Right now it's up to 37 but it was down in the low 39s overnight.  I'm going to ignore it because yesterday, I told myself that "SPRING IS HERE".  And later this week, it's supposed to rain 4 days in a row.  If that's not Spring weather, I don't know what is!

I'm like AMY today.  I don't know what I'm going to do.,,,,maybe something.....maybe nothing!

I wish you all a great day!  Do whatever suits your fancy!  And don't forget to tell us what that was.  Maybe it'll suit our fancy, too!

I heard that Paul Anka song on the radio this week and it made me nostalgic for those old songs with nice tunes and  meaningful words.
These days songs are so "noisy" and articulated in such a way that it is difficult to catch the words.

Here too we fluctuate between sunny days and cold depressing temperatures. Lots of flu and colds around. Thankfully no talks of measles here.

Have a great day and an even greater week.
We started on the big Passover cleaning. Every year it's getting to be a harder challenge.

Quote from: MarsGal on April 01, 2025, 07:07:02 AMRammel, I tried turning my Keurig over to get rid of the water (twice), but it didn't work either time - not a drop.

Assuming it is similar to mine - I have the single cup type - did you open the lever that lets the water go in? It gets messy, but it should work.

Quote from: BarbStAubrey on April 01, 2025, 02:18:00 AMsince I seldom if ever drink more than 2 cups a day a Melitta cone with a paper filter works perfectly - I have a small cone that I can do 2 cups and set one cup aside to reheat later or a larger one that does 4 cups

I have one of those but never had good luck with it. Maybe I'm using the wrong coffee grind, or doing something else wrong. My coffee always came out weak.

 

Good morning, I slept in late, so I was late getting Farrah fed and coffee on. I also use the cone filter with my coffee. I've gone through meet and greets and finished my morning routine but need to water my plants, do laundry or clean either the kitchen or bathroom.

Furthermore, I do need to take some cardboard downstairs as well. While our bagged garbage goes into a wall shoot in each laundry room, our cardboard goes to the maintenance entrance because the compacter cannot handle compressing it. Not only that, but I also need to go downtown for some necessities, but since I have the same weather as Amy and everyone is asked to stay home, I'll have to improvise.

Friday and Saturday's weather should be calmer, however, Sunday's, the 6th, will have rain then, next Monday's, 7th, snow. I read somewhere that instead of March coming in like a lion and leaving like a lamb...it's left like a polar bear.

Bubble, while I enjoy every one of your monthly intros, today's was top tier! You do amazing work for us and like so many I'm highly appreciative of each offering. I do wish I knew the author of number 6. I tried looking it up, but wasn't able to.

I grew up in the fifties, teens in the sixties, but enjoyed Paul Anka, Tom Jones, and Tony Bennet. Later, it was watching the Dean Martin show with Dean, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. Nowadays, I'm fond of tenors and songs like Les Misérables, my favorite opera, to songs like Bella Ciao, Never Enough, Shallow, Sound of Silence and I who have Nothing, to name a few.

Good morning to Rick and Jane, and to any others venturing in or visiting a bit. Does anyone have Joanie, Tomereader's email? She hasn't posted since January.

Barb, I keep a bag of coffee beans in the fridge and an unopened one in the freezer for my coffee. I drink my coffee in the morning and ice water in the late afternoon and evening. I've heard that pour overs are said to make the best tasting coffee, but I like mine made in advance. For years, I had the Mr. Coffee type machines but noticed the past couple of times that the machine rarely lasted longer than three years and the coffee made with them was bland.

I did a search of reviews and ended up with this one having good reviews but a higher price. I've had it three months and changed the two-month filter once and so far, the coffee's good. It does have a cleaning cycle for every two weeks and I use water and vinegar with a couple of extra rinses. Tea is a drink I associate with illness, as we grew up with tea whenever we were sick as children. I do occasionally have a cup with friends, but it's not my usual.

MG, your weather and animal sights sound wonderful. Beside the snowshoe hares and occasional lynx, the only ones we see are moose and ravens. Most birds and animals tend to return in May.

Amy, everything here is presently covered in snow, but soon turning back to rain and more ice.

Callie, to you,    too.

Another blah day - been blah for a week now... rainy, overcast, muggy - thank goodness the Astros are playing again so that there is something to look forward to...

Patricia I get tired of coffee and do tea for a week or so - I do like Twinings Irish Breakfast Tea best - more body than the English Breakfast. I have these individual strainers that hold enough tea for a cup so I can use tea leaves rather than the processed chopped up tea that is in most teabags

March was never one of my favorite months because the weather was so iffy - neither Spring nor Winter however, usually by April it has sorted itself out - looks like with everything running late this year even April is starting out not much different than March. At least there are signs of Spring - I wonder if it will be one of those years when overnight everything bursts out as if it had been Spring like for days... I thought we were going to be knee deep in Spring but with all this muggy, overcast, rainy weather it does not feel like taking a trip out to see the fields and fields of bluebonnets.

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I just call them Lupines. The ones you have in Texas are mostly or wholly Lupinus texensis. Oh, and it is your state flower. I didn't know that. It seems that Texas likes bluebonnets so much they consider all bluebonnets that grow in Texas the state flower not just L. texensis. Until I saw a nature program focusing on the Western area, probably 30 or 40 years ago now, I thought Lupines were a European Alpine plant, nor did I know they come in other colors. We apparently have another variety (L. perennis) "imported" from the western states that grow wild now in Western PA. The park service is keeping an eye on them because they consider them invasive because they are not native to PA. Now look what you started, Barb. I've been cruising the plants native to PA pages. Our state flower, BTW, is Mountain Laurel. It is related to rhododendron.

I read everything and it all brought home memories!  Thanks for all the floral info!  When we were kids, Sunday was "lets" take the long way to Gramma'a farm".  And we saw lots of growing things along the way.  My Dad grew up on a farm and he knew what was what when we asked questions.  And when we got to the farm, we had to walk all over the place and see what was growing there! 

Now I'm ready to hit the haystack!  Cooper doggie will be arriving a bit before 6 tomorrow morning and I need to be up and attem by 5 a.m.  Day starts early and that means it has to end early too!  I wish you all a peaceful nights sleep and a happy tomorrow.  Make the day your own in every way!  And don't forget to tell us how you did that!  We NEED to know!

MarsGal in the photo there is a slight line of rosy orangy red that are the Indian Paint that bloom mid bluebonnet season so that often fields and especially the sides of highways have a mixture of Bluebonnets and Indian Paint and this will be followed by a whole host of wild flowers through the month of April into May and sometimes into June according to how hot it gets or how much rain we get. There will be Indian Blanket, Primrose, Wine Cups, Mexican Hats, Coreopsis, Prickly Poppy and a few more all blanketing the highways and fields as their blooming time comes along. Quite a sight starting the end of March - best time to visit the state before the high heat. 

Here is a better photo that shows the Indian Paint
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Alaska's state flower is the Forget-me-not.

Thank you, Patricia for noticing I had not been in here for awhile.  My computer has gotten so hinky, I can barely log into my main email name and pay my bills.
However, I am doing well, just not able to get into anything that requires me to stay logged in for more than 30 minutes.  It locks up and I have to go thru all sorts of permutations to even shut down.  Thought I'd better come in here and see if all was well with everyone.  I'll try to post a little bit every so often if this ancient piece of technology will hang in there for a bit.  I was getting ready to buy a new one, but just got my Homeowner's Policy bill for over $3,000 so I guess I will drive this HP until it formally dies!  Have missed reading all your missives.  Keep on keeping on!  Love, and hugs to all.

Quote from: MarsGal on April 01, 2025, 06:53:28 PMI just call them Lupines.

Did you know you can eat their seeds? They look like big flat pale lentils.  Here they are sold , dry, in the places selling dry beans and the like.
I soak them, boil in water with salt until they are soft enough to enjoy as a snack. Then you can enjoy them just like you eat roasted  "peanuts", with or without the outer skin which is removed easily by tearing with the front  tooth.

Didn't know that Patricia.

Jane, remember when there were tons of black-eyed Susans growing along the roadsides?

Glad to see your post Tomereader, and ouch on the RE bill.
 
Microsoft is still busy adding, subtracting and renaming or changing icons in the  start folder. I now have a folder promoting PopCap Games (Bejeweled, etc.); I think there used to be one years ago that I got rid of. There are also icons for Phone link (system), a PDF Converter, Tips (system), PC Health Check, a bunch of Windows system apps, and Voice Recorder which I don't think was there before. Some of these could have been there awhile and I just didn't notice them. The Windows system folder/apps on the start bar are things I automatically use Windows Settings icon which is still there. And above the Power and Setting button I have noticed an admin button, one for documents and one for pictures which I do not remember being there before. The more I think about it, I think the admin button has been there, I just forgot about it. I will be checking out some of these to see if I can get rid of them. I've already removed a few. My computer memory seems to be steadily losing free memory every time Microsoft does a new feature, or whatever, update. That is, I believe, the reason for the computer to seem slow at times lately.

Good morning..

Seems we are in for more nasty weather either rain or snow or both. David did get the power back on yesterday but a lot of others are still with out. My friend said this is day 5 for them. They do have a generator but I don't think it runs everything just the essentials.

Another day of "whatever" comes along gets done...

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I have nothing to report that will interest anyone one here!

I am here but,  like Jane, nothing much interesting to talk about. Cool and cloudy today but up to 85 tomorrow. The trouble with spring is I never know what to wear.  Today I put on a summertime cotton house coat and a sweater over that I can take off later when it gets warmer.

In my yard the violets and perrywinkle are fading. The tiny yellow sun drops are blooming along with the pink azaleas.  The white azaleas are covered with blossoms and the red azaleas will come out next followed by the lavender ones.  The dogwoods are beautiful and David said the wisteria on the street west of us is also in bloom.  All these flowers are
loving our warm climate.

Take care, All

Good morning, and a special one to Joanne. I go to computer settings each time things seem troublesome. In computer apps settings, you can do a lot of uninstalling and deleting.

All this lovely talk about birds singing and flowers blooming. Our weather for this week will be a mix of snow and rain, along with wind gusts. My sister in Idaho is having the same temperatures, rain and wind while Amy, according to AccuWeather, has the worst of the three.

Plus, and this might surprise a few, two of Alaska's volcanos are doing some serious rumbling.

Otherwise, like Jane and Phyllis, nothing going on here worth mentioning.