What made you smile today?

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Talking with the new neighbor across the street.

I've been a little disgruntled as someone there parks a car, albeit new and nice, on the "greater lawn" - a bit of rock on sand off of the driveway. But it's hard for me to whine and be taken seriously, even if I wanted to verbalize not liking cars every which way in front of houses, since I've been gathering rocks in visible containers for quite a while now and my own yard is a work in slow progress.

Turns out the new neighbor is the daughter of the owner who was there when I moved here, a gracious older woman. She moved to live with her sister, and rented the place out, meanwhile telling me any renter would be glad to take all my (damn - my word) rocks. Then there were the renters. They didn't seem like they'd want rocks. I liked them too, to the extent I knew them, but worried about the kids, who bicycled at a young age off of driveways to the street with no clue re cars.
Then one day the renters disappeared..

So, despite the triangulated car on sand, I like the new neighbor well enough.

Ive always thought that it would be great to be your neighbor
much better than Mr. Rodgers

You wouldn't want to live in our neighborhood, because we are the second oldest family on our street. I scared off everybody!

Chatting online with friends in the US, Sweden and Germany made me smile a lot today! I love the internet! Mostly...

A walk in a snowy cemetery.

So. Photographs?

Working on them.... was late in the day. A bit dark.

love a good cemetery

here's my great great grandfathers headstone, hilly grove cemetery on the manitoulin island

Ah - lovely, lovely lichen!

some of the smaller older headstones are just lichen covered slabs, you can't even read the information on them

Seeing Kevin Pietersen's off stump getting knocked back.

Hearing a friend's daughter is on the short list for a doctoral program at George
Washington U.

waking up to my dog and cat staring at me with innocent looks on their face which means they did something

The beautiful roses my husband brought me for valentine's day. We've been fighting alot lately and I wasn't expecting them.

I was at an intersection of a main road and a side street. I was on the main road -- no stop sign or stoplight. Older guy in a big boaty car was on the side street, at a stop sign, about to turn onto my road. I was about to turn on to his street.



(I'm red, he's blue.)

As I approached, he started to pull into my road, which would have resulted in him bashing into me if we continued current trajectories. He apparently never looked in my direction. I slowed down and waited to see what happened -- he eventually looked my direction before turning all the way in. We held our gazes for a minute, my look saying, "Hello, I'm turning, what are you doing?" He stopped and then gave me this hilarious "OOPSIE, sorry!!!" expression. (I bet he's charmed himself out of many a situation with that expression). I was surprised and grinned, which got a return grin out of him before I completed my turn and went on my way. (No harm done.)

Last Sunday, as I walked down 5th avenue, I overheard two German tourists talk to each other in their native language, expressing their displeasure that a particular shop was closed. Then they followed up with an unfavorable review of New York City in general. I almost blurted out: "What the f'ck is your problem? Back where you come from, none of the shops in this town would be open today!" Instead, I just shot those idiot foreigners a dirty look.

Thirty seconds after the look, I had to smile as I got enlightened. I'm really getting attached to this place!

Glad to hear it, Thomas. And I like your Noo Yawker attitude. Stoopid tourists! Grrrrrrrrr.

Beware the Dark Side, Grasshopper.

The dark side is the only side.