Good
Morning Smile Warriors
It's
been a few days but it's Thursday, October 24th, 2013
My
dentist and hygienist are very gentle women but I still leave the
office or when the pain killers wear off, feeling like I have been
beat. I am not certain. Maybe when I'm not looking they sock me one.
Whatever, the dentist takes everything out of me. So, I have been
resting from my cleaning. I don't know if I made the right decision
or not but I decided to go with more frequent cleanings verses a
really heavy once a year cleaning since my mouth is in a delicate
condition. Some time next month, I get another cap put on but it will
all be done in one morning. I will leave with the permanent cap
instead of multiple visits with temps and the dreaded string
separating the gum from the tooth. That hurts like Hades. I will
probably be out of it for a week. As you get older, the ugly truth is
it takes more and more out of you with every medical procedure. You
simply stop bouncing back and go splat.
Many
years ago I ascribed to a philosophy that seems to have died. It
states simply that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing
right. So many people just do what they need to get by which amounts
to a half arsed something as a result which they then need to fix
multiple times. I'm lazy. Do it right once. I also subscribe to
random acts of beauty. Without art, the world is just plain, boring
and without life. Thus, though I make no pretense to be an artist, I
randomly decorate anything that doesn't have life. I buy these
watering things in a bag. They are beyond plain but they allow the
water to seep out too quickly but all the way to the roots of the
plant. This is better than watering from the top and watching the
water run off your pot with half that expensive potting mix. I will
tell you right off that if the potting soil is not moist, the water
just seeps out the bottom of the pot through more than one opening
but at least the soil doesn't go with it. As I said, they are really
plain but no more. You can see from the pictures that a tube of
silicone glue and a bag of rock chips from Lowes plus a bunch of
glass thingies from the dollar store and viola, plain no more! Even
the watering bottle that fits into them, was not immune on my house
African violet. I think I'll leave the outside bottles plain. Well,
maybe...you know me and glue and shiny stuff. I just can't help
myself. It's a sickness.
The
point is, you can't make a mistake. The rocks are just randomly glued
on based more on the size than color. I grab the glass things out
randomly and just glue. I keep doing this to pots and whatnot and the
universe becomes a more decorative place. I even think the lizards
like it. I know the raccoons often steal my sun/energy catchers. They
like bright shiny things, too. Somewhere there is a burrow decorated
with bright shiny things and some day some park ranger will find it
and go WTF?!? I'll never rat them out. I mean, they do have little
hands. They could be making jewelry. You never know.
So, next
time you are sitting in front of the TV, get out the glue and shiny
things and make the world a more decorative place. Commit random acts
of art. The world will thank you for it. I'll thank you in advance
for it.
