livin’ the memory

Ahhh yes…It took me back to summers on the lake, Crystal Lake, in Beooolaaaaah (Beulah) when I got my new Midwest Living magazine supplement in the mail yesterday. I miss those days with the kids and their grandparents. Being divorced from their father I had to give the vacations up, but the memories are still good. We used to go to the same spots every year while there: Gwen Frostics prints, whose beautiful block-prints and poetry are worth the trip anyday, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire Beach, Frankfort and Point Betsie Lighthouse, or just a bicycle ride to downtown Beulah.  The same familiar places were always augmented by some new drive or day trip, boat rides and lazy days on the beach, or a stroll to find wildflowers for making a bouquet for grandma. Artwork was a must, for adults and children. It was always a good time. Crystal Lake was just that then, crystal clear. Always cool water, but you get used to it after a while. No crowds, plenty of water sports activities, a real sailing, sailboarding lake. The kids’ grandfather fished now and then, but no nessie-types were ever found.

Looking for  Petoskey stones was my favorite thing to do every day while the kids played near the shore, or tested out their swimming skills. They counted on me to find the stones in the water. I always did, even though most of them were a little harder to find in the area where we stayed, the pattern was certainly not as well defined as those in this photo , but still worth the search.  Nature has certainly given us many beautiful “things” to help us keep a precious lifetime of memories. Some day if I ever have money again, I would like to have a vacation again. I’d go to Michigan for the summer if I could, too! There’s just something spiritual about being around that much water, fresh air and sunshine. Of course, being around the the places where we once made memories makes one feel young again, too.

All that even before I opened to the first page of the magazine. Yep, I am still livin’ the memories. You know, I like being by the river, but give me a lake or ocean beach any day, too! Caribbean blue water is my favorite color. I could even live on the water, couldn’t you? No waterworld, thank you , but a nice little houseboat…

what a signal

Once upon a time there was a signal called the ”Wow! signal“, found by Jerry R. Ehman an astronomer who was the first scientist to detect such a radio signal on August 15, 1977. At the time this was discovered Mr. Ehman was working on a project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/seti-03d.html

 If you’d like to join the search for ET install download the SETI/BERKELEY program.

I have a triplet or two lost in my old computer which is in storage, but can’t prove it to you. I did do screen shots of it, but, of course, that’s stuck in the computer, too. What’s a triplet? According to Seti at home,

 “Triplets are a sets of 3 equally spaced spikes. Whereas gaussians represent a constant signal from space, triplets may represent a series of pulses transmitted at fixed time intervals.” They have a few screen shots you can look at here.

Since BERKELEY came up today, I was  lead to look up a couple of old comic strips because parts of them go with this whole post so well. First things first.

I did not do a collage today, but instead chose a random comic strip text bubble to anagram, as I always do, and got three anagrams from the text, “I tell ya kid…I don’t know how much more weirdness I can take [and] Better stay away from the mirror.”:

1.) “I think you knew I  made the most of my written word, it became a rare skill; try on a word search.”

 

2.) ”Leonardo’s wit came in handy… first time you met Berkeley, how weird was that knock at mirror?”

Notice Berkeley Breathed’s Opus character and use of an anagram in the comics.

3.) “That first “Wow!” was an early knock, Berkeley, ET came, we had to do this in your “mirror mind” time.”

Hmmm. A little bubbling by one Berkeley or another.

Do you think any of this has affected our minds? Or is it brains, eh Berkeley?