Volume #59/ The Rainforest Spring!

Some of you may remember Kuvasz from the early days of Abuzz. This is what he once posted on the subject of housework:

Follow your bliss.

your art work is what makes you click. and you know well that when the inspiration hits you would forego coffee, heroin, and even trips to the bathroom when it strikes. so, do what you want, for if not, what the hell is the purpose of your life?

and you can always get a leaf blower like i do when i have to clean the house.

Aa - g'day!

Did you spot the "I thought of Aa when I saw this" pic in my NYC photo album?

And g'day to you, too, Ms. ehBeth.

No, I did not see that pic. I did see the early photos, but apparently I didn't look long and far enough.

When I have time (later, not now), I'll go back and try to find the link to your photo album.

Your trip certainly was an example of fully experiencing the place, not just skimming the tourist superficialities.

Ye gads and little fishes! An Aa sighting! Break out the bubbly, Dannon!

OK!!! AA..!!!

I have a bottle of Moet & Chandon all cooled and ready........... the Magic Flutes are also cooled.

Wow - what an occasion........

Howdy Aa

Cleaning is art!

You can't imagine the cool stuff you can find during spring cleaning!

The tv remote for example

it's a bird! It's a plane!
NO! It's Aa.
How nice to see you,as always.

All clicked in. Happy Sunday Spring.

Hiya, Aa. Maybe outside work is more satisfying because it tends to stays "done" longer than inside work, or at least evolve into a different form of natural chaos then inside clutter. Which, sadly, always looks the same.

And Noddy's comment reminded me of Dorothy Parker.

Front coming through. Let's hope for some rain out of this one. Last one was a blank. Head hurts though.

Laundry's almost ready to go out on the Rainforest thread clothesline. Always makes me happy to think of when I first 'met' the WildClickers.

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You and your 283 friends have supported 1,844,506.3 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 39,090.7 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (39,090.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 34,852.0 square feet.
You have supported: (9,855.3)
Your 283 friends have supported: (24,996.7)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,770,563.5 square feet.
You have supported: (160,629.6)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,609,933.9)

Whoooooooo hoooooooooo!

Peace and Love's birthday is today.
As is Buttercup, Mrs. Cavfancier's.

Happy birthday to them both.

Jingle jangle, Peace and Love!

Mrs Cav, many happy returns of the day!

<thank ye ehBeth>

all clicked

Happy B'Day P&L and Ms Cav

Clicked........

You met all here while hanging out the laundry? Mine is going up inside right now. Possibility of straight-line winds soon.

sumac--

Thanks for the compliment. Dorothy Parker is one of my favorite people.

sumac, I first posted on the Rainforest threads at Abuzz in about August 2000 . In October 2000, Canajun Thanksgiving, I installed my clothesline. Posted on the thread about learning how to use an post hole digger, and how to mix cement.

It was that year's "think globally, act locally" activity.

Somewhere along the line, I posted a pic of the WildClicking clothesline.

Gotcha, to both of you. Clothes line and Dorothy.

Speaking of birthdays, Stoat (who appears online only on the rarest occasions) had a birthday this past Wednesday, May 12th.

Thanks, everybody, for the welcoming greetings a page ago.

I really enjoyed the comments about housework and some of its philosophical underpinnings, the least of which was a comment from somebody to me a few years ago: "Doing house cleaning is like buying groceries or having sex - no sooner do you finish than you have to start all over again."

One of the little gems I enjoy is the etymological connection between the word "ecumenical" and housework.

It starts with the image and concept of "house" (or household), which is "demo" in Indo-European.

From the front door of the house, there are two paths which angle away from each other.

One path is Latin, starting with (if I remember the word correctly) "domus" for house. Stemming from that are dominion, dominus (Lord, Master), dominate, condominium, despot, danger, domestic, etc.

The other path is Greek, where the word for house is "oikos". From there extend many words, such as "oikein" (to inhabit), oikoumene (the inhabited world), and oecumenical (later modernized in spelling to ecumenical).

The words directly connecting oikos and house[work] are:
oeciomania ... mental derangement as to the management of household affairs.
oecophobia ... an aversion to home life or housework.
echphobia ... abnormal fear of home surroundings.

I fear that I can identify with some of these words all too easily.

Mental derangement. I'll second that.