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Tha Grass Is Always Greener...

“The grass is always greener on the wrong side of the fence.”
We’ve heard this little phrase until we thought that it made sense,
When every time we checked it out we found it was untrue.
Please grab a bite of something, I’ll explain this thing to you.

If you happen to look down you’ll notice dirt is at your feet,
But you hardly can see any in that place across the street.
Keep your eyes on the horizon, and give what’s near a pass,
And everyone around will say “There goes a horse ... for grass.” *

The way to make a better world begins with where you stand.
Some of the early settlers once ignored the needs of land.
All soil is like a garden, you can give and you can get,
But something out for nothing in just hasn’t worked out yet.

When horses were our lawnmowers, the grass was always green,
We had a way to mow grass with a “fertilize machine.”
But now we chop it, and we bag it, and just throw it away,
And then buy fertilizer to spread out another day.

But when it’s not the weekend, we hitch up the faithful steed,
And roll onto the highway where we often make such speed,
That people on bicycles often pass us where we sit,
And watch the gas gauge flash a sign to say stop at the pit.

The car that we depend on needs a better source of fuel,
And I have the perfect answer and it isn’t even cruel.
We need to breed an animal to make some kind of gas,
And all we’d have to do for it is feed it all that grass.

* (Insert alternate rhyming phrase here.)

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . May 16, 2004
© 2004

Oh Bob.. you don't know how appropriate this poem is (sistah's, can you catch it???) Thank you FRiend. Your contributions are always fun & clever and you have it done in Green!!!

And No, dutchess I did not know that the voice (ho, ho, ho) of the jolly green giant is now silenced, When I went to the site to get the pix, I copy pasted it right onto my "platform" without saving it in a file on my hard drive(quicker & I am lazy). for some reason he was cut in 1/3 & 2/3 as you see on the ping. I cyber glued him together for the body of thread. I wonder why they did that?

sistahs, I did that thread very hurriedly. Started after 9 PM. Knew I wanted to use the green but just didn't know what I would emphasize. I thought of all the green things I like (and I do like a LOT of green things) It is my second favorite color next to red. Rather than just pick one, I did the ADDH thing & did a touch of all.

Billie, I have several HTML questions & will get them to you when I have time. Maybe in next day or so. How is your schedule? I will go out tonight for first time in few days to my support group. Will go gently for sure. Still cannot walk well since my fall

All, My hand swelling is better today. It is still very swollen & sore but down considerably. the last time I had this situation was about 25 years ago & the pattern was about 4-5 days til normalcy.

Cali had a seizure Monday morning early & as I restrained her she bit into my hand. No muscles, vessels or nerves were cut (I had that once about 15 years ago & needed surgery.. see i DO go to the doc if it is beyond my self cure) but this was just the allergic reaction. I was told you only had that once in your life (by vet) and then were immune. And I have had MANY bites. when you do cat rescue, it is common.

Strange - Hmmm...I think I would have been more fastidious in soaking, cleaning it initially, had I known.

And Bob back to your poem. I note I need to cut the grass one more time. It is all so wet now. Might get friend to help or hire out as it is a big job here with walking, electric mower