THIS IS AMERICA,SPEAK ENGLISH TO THEM

There is a secret behind these beautiful plants

It has been a hobby of long standing that we have many orchids on our property in San Diego.  For several years now they have been a wonderful sight to see every year around the time of the Easter holiday.  In fact, there have been years when they have been so beautiful that they were chosen to grace the altar for the Easter liturgies.  Sadly, the past couple of years have not been quite so festive because the plants did not flourish to the accustomed degree of bounteous florescence. Something had to be done.  The Voice from the Kitchen was working out of town and so she trained her sister in the fine art of tending the orchids.  The first full year of the Cymbidium 💓 Presentacion (Chona for short!) is about to enter the home stretch for the blooming of the orchids.  It is evident to the practiced eye that this is going to be a gooood year.
This evening we got to talking about the visible signs of the future success of the Cymbidium ranch.
Chona was proudly exposing her devotion and constant attention to the robust looking plants.  She is so happy that the beauty that is developing is not just the result of technically correct farming.  Oh, no! Not on this ranch.  There is a powerful spirit of love both spiritual and physical where kissing, petting and cooing are integral elements of the process.  Achon actually shared the cooing and whispering and near signing with which she communicates with the orchids under her loving care.  At one point of her light hearted description of her relationship with the lovely plants she switched to speaking English. English?  We burst into laughter without saying a word.  She knew why we were laughing.  She joined us in the uncontrolled laughter.  When we calmed down a little bit, she explained that Carlos, her spouse, told her that she would have better success of she were to make love to the plants in English.  He explained that she should communicate in the language of the land.
So she was demonstrating to us how she acted with the orchids.
Sit tight.  When these plants come into full effulgence, I will show you the fruits of the love affair between Presentacion and the orchids of 6912 Quinn Court, San Diego, CA 92111.

HOW YA DOIN'?

Just the other day
I was in the mood to make some of my friends happy that they are not the only ones who forget things and spend a lot of time searching for something that they had in their hands just 5 minutes before.  I get several responses telling me that the humor that I intended did in fact make them smile.  Sadly I received a couple of comments that came from the sadder side of life.  The sadness of chronic and intense senility, though not spelled out in the message was present in the "spirit."  I felt it.  I still do.  Who knows, I may even be in denial...If so, I pray that I and those around me be always blessed with the humor of the disjointedness of the things I do.

That's the mental part.  Wait until you see the physical part.  That's quite a sight too.  Numb hands that can no longer tie shoe laces, pick up coins from the floor, turn the pages of a book, (thank God for e-books) make a fist and/or even spread out all the way.  Wanna talk knees?  Naw, there's only one good one anyway.  Eyes are OK, thanks to the fact that they are 50% real and 50% plastic. Teeth come in at about 40/35/25 -- real/plastic/gone.

The hair that I have is thin, but I still have enough hair on my head to cover it all so that I have about as much face to wash as I do hair to comb.  My eyebrows have been trying for years to hijack more and more space than I want to give them.  I'm winning that one, thanks to my scissors.

My ears don't hardly work any more.  So, I won't waste your time if you don't by trying to talk to me.

You can tell that I am a ramblin' wreck.  But that's only on the outside.  I don't have enough time to talk about the parts you can't see, touch or hear.  I also don't have a polite enough vocabulary to talk about those other things.

So, overall, if we get to meet within the next few months, the topics of conversation are already pretty well defined.  

C ya!