Skip Ennis

Touching the Earth.

Monday, May 25, 2009 9:10:23 PM

I have been spending even more time than usual in the garden these last few days, absorbing the natural energy. Every plant, as any living organism, is converting matter into energy. Get re-connected by just touching the Earth.

It's The End of the World As We Know It........True Friendship.

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PainterWoman # Monday, May 25, 2009 9:21:24 PM

This is what I do every single day. No matter how tired I might be, I'll grab the clippers or the rake and spend a few minutes. It always ends up being more because I immediately start to feel better. An amazing thing isn't it?

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, May 25, 2009 10:31:21 PM

Yes, it is amazing and exciting because it always works.

H82typ # Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:48:15 PM

I have a brown thumb. I do believe I killed a cactus once! But I'm happy for you guys!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:27:20 AM

Hi Dennis. Thank you for the comment.

Just studying the nature of this Earth gives an uplifting rush. I guess it can even cure a brown thumb.

Shaunak DeShaunak # Friday, May 29, 2009 4:36:00 AM

Gardening is a lovely thing to do.

You reap such rich rewards for your effort: Beautiful flowers, fresh air....

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Friday, May 29, 2009 9:57:04 AM

I like it because the Earth is so honest (unlike the 'world')and one should enjoy this fleeting time with it.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Saturday, May 30, 2009 11:33:03 PM

Hey Skip! My uncle and I went to a public greenhouse today and got some tomato plants. We cheated a little because we got some thay were already getting along. The season here is kind of short.

NEWS FLASH! My passport came yesterday!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:21:55 PM

Hiya Tyler!

Great news about your tomato plants.

Even if you did have to 'cheat', you will get your fresh tomatoes soon. Wonderful.
Well done.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:29:32 PM

We have another project going also. We are trying to get grass to grow in the front yard again. The snow in the front was piled so high and poisoned with salt, that it just killed the grass. Got any ideas?

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:10:43 PM

Er, not offhand. Sorry.

Salt is a killer and I guess you have to wait for it to leach out. The only grass I know that grows in salt is Marram Grass.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:48:22 PM

Well, we will see what happens. The grass was paltry last year. Even worse this year. If you would like to hook up, I am headed your way. I will do it in the "off" season. My passport finally got here.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 7:14:07 PM

Man, if you ever visit Norwich, you have got to stop by for tea.

I guess you will be heading for Wales, seeking your roots.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 7:20:20 PM

Don't sweat it. If I come at all, you know that I am going to visit you. You can send me your address at a later date!

How come everytime you come on here my "virus scan" starts up?

Hmmmm?

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 7:43:07 PM

I do not know why your virus scan should start on me.

You will be welcomed here anytime, my friend.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 7:50:37 PM

Don't worry Skip, it was just a coincidence. My scanner likes to come on when ever damn well pleases. Usually just in time to crash something that I am trying to do!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 8:06:51 PM

I keep everything virus free with very regular housekeeping and I have hardly had a crash all this past year.

My old laptop used to freeze up and crash almost everytime I came online.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 8:14:11 PM

What are you running now? Did you upgrade to a newer machine? Today, I helped my uncle Paul convert his network from wireless back to cable. We ran cables thru the heating ducts from his study down to the basement then up to the dining room and then around the corner into the living room to hook to the vista machine. Last night he ran a cable thru the wall to my computer.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 9:08:51 PM

Your very own home network, eh?

I got just a standard desktop with Windows Vista Home Basic on board. I have had it for about 9 months.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 9:17:29 PM

Good. I got tired of hearing you bitch about "Old Betsy". Before I bought this IBM ThinkPad, I had to beg for computer time from my uncle. Would you believe that even tho he as five machines, sometimes I couldn't use any of them.!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 9:22:52 PM

But, at least, those restrictions got you your own laptop and that is what you needed.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 9:26:34 PM

Needed it, wanted it, had to have it, and finally got it. I am already thinking about a better one! That is how they get you. It is just like with cars. It's: New! Faster! Sexy girls will like you if you have one!

For a long time I was content to be relagated to the oldest computer in the house. Now, I want it all! "More power MR. Scott"!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Monday, June 1, 2009 9:43:15 PM

I still like my old laptop with Windows 98SE on board. In every way I am a 'make do and mend' chap, rather than go for the latest and greatest.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Monday, June 1, 2009 10:57:49 PM

You realize of course that when Windows Seven comes out we are all screwed? We will all be forced to upgrade because the new software won't run on old machines using XP or 98 or 94. I miss my old PS2 with ran on MSDOS. I had all the commands memorized and I was a whiz on Lotus123 and "workperfect". Microsoft found a way to kill them both. Progress.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Tuesday, June 2, 2009 7:50:08 PM

I am going to stay as I am now, not upgrading anymore.

As long as I can stay online I will be here.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Tuesday, June 2, 2009 7:55:03 PM

: Someday you will have to upgrade Human. Microsoft will send out a powerburst and all of the old PCs on Earth will die in little puffs of smoke.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Tuesday, June 2, 2009 7:56:16 PM

Thankyou for your comment Urdu, now deal the cards and this time don't forget to ante up.

FIFINELEB # Friday, June 5, 2009 8:24:12 PM

I kept Windows 98 SE as long as I could (for 3 years). and then I bought a Hewlett Packard with XP 3 years ago. I used free antiviruses (Avast and Antivir) + free firewall.
Now I am using a laptop with Windows Vista premium on board. My desktop is equipped with Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) and therefore I don't need any antivirus nor any firewall. The updates are fully automatic. No need for defragmentation! I am fully satisfied with the Linux system you can get for free from www.ubuntu.com
Best regards.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Friday, June 5, 2009 9:05:38 PM

I still use XP.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Saturday, June 6, 2009 1:23:48 PM

Well they can zap me offline whenever they want. I see this technology as I would a very useful stone or stick - useful but it will not last.

FIFINELEB # Saturday, June 6, 2009 3:34:40 PM

Or is it the beginning of everything! I am just wondering. You know,they don't care about any( body or thing) ! Full steam ahead! Where to? Do they know?

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Saturday, June 6, 2009 6:54:29 PM

That's the ticket! Computers are crutches for the brain. I think that they are destroying the minds of our children. I don't see any turning back tho.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Saturday, June 6, 2009 7:21:42 PM

We must teach our children the old ways, so that they will know what to do when all of this goes down.

FIFINELEB # Saturday, June 6, 2009 7:48:29 PM

The worst is that all this happens in the fall of our lives. Haha. We are maybe too old to learn that.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 1:24:45 PM

Is it our fate to be stuck in a "home" and pumped full of drugs?

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:00:13 PM

Not me. I am going to be afloat in my dotage - even if it is in an old bathtub. (They can keep their drugs).

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:10:25 PM

My Grandmother lived a really long time, but the last eight years of her life, in my opinion anyway, were not that great. My Stepgrandfather Ralph, on the other hand, blew like a lightbulb. That is the way that I would prefer; just doing what I want right up until Death sneaks up and collects me.

Philosopy makes my head hurt.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:14:41 PM

I am just loving being here and now. What happens next is irrelevant to me.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:20:51 PM

Actually, we are about a tenth of a second behind the "Now".

Driving at 60 mph, a person's preception of Now, is about eight feet behind where it actually is. It is interesting that if you are scared enough, you can jump ahead that tenth of a second, and time seems to slow down!

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:30:04 PM

At 60 mph? Now you are getting into time travel, man.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:35:54 PM

Not exactly time travel, but a faster preception of the time flow. I think that the old masters of kungfu are able to do the slowing of time, whenever they want.

One day, while I was driving across Nebraska, I worked out the math on how far I traveled without seeing anything, everytime I blinked my eyes. I can assure you that I NEVER tailgate anybody.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 4:03:20 PM

Talking of perception at speed. Here, some years ago, an airline pilot drove his car into the back of a truck on a rainy night. He was driving home after a long flight and he said afterwards that he saw this huge shape loom out in front of him so he pulled back on his steering wheel! (Wonder where his head was at?).

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 4:58:57 PM

I can relate to that. I have finally stopped reaching for the "airhorn" lanyard, when I want to honk my horn on my car.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 5:06:53 PM

Can't you put an airhorn on your car? I once had the idea of taking out the headlights from a car and replacing them with strobe lights - so at night it looks like you are the only one moving.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Sunday, June 7, 2009 5:45:49 PM

Well the kind of airhorn I am thinking about was roof mounted, and that is why it has a lanyard.

Hmmm. Strobe headlites eh? What an original and so dangerously insane idea! I like it!

FIFINELEB # Sunday, June 7, 2009 7:57:13 PM

Personally I'd prefer to use fireflies as headlights. No need to recharge their batteries. Haha.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Sunday, June 7, 2009 9:53:36 PM

So why can't you put airhorns on the roof of your car?

And, by the way, horse pollution grows flowers.

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Tuesday, June 9, 2009 11:55:36 AM

I could, but I would have to drill holes in the roof and they would always leak when it rains.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Tuesday, June 9, 2009 6:22:27 PM

Tyler Parke YoungCaptivevet # Tuesday, June 9, 2009 8:23:26 PM

I know what I am talking about, because I have in fact done it before, although not to a car.

Skip EnnisSkip247 # Tuesday, June 9, 2009 9:41:30 PM

Then the only thing I can suggest is that you install a lanyard in your car and whenever you pull it a notice drops down saying 'sound your horn'.

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