Sepia saturday 182; girls and horses;

This time I left the photos in their original state. I thought the faded, old photos looked quite nice and in a way suit Sepia Saturday. I hope you agree.

ML and David, a well trained and clever little stock horse. He helped to round up the cattle.

Chichi was ML's horse. Strong and wilful, both of them!

Grooming and caring for the horses was a favourite task for the girls.

Friends;

J. prefered the small motor bike.

Down to the river for a quick dip;

This used to be the milk house, we did not have dairy cows. It was not used for a long time. The dairy herd of this farm had the reputation of producing the best cream.

L. was the girl to look after animals and birds in need  of TLC.

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Tuesday; fads;

I don’t like decoration fads which involve living fish. It is cruel to keep goldfish in small bowls or as under table decorations or as a bathroom sink decoration. Gold fish are living beings they need room to swim, sun and rain. Gold fish belong in an outside pond not inside. People are very thoughtless, cruel  and stupid when it comes to animals, fish or birds. 

Who had these brain dead ideas of using gold fish as decorations?

I have a pond with gold fish, watching them how they enjoy the sun in the morning, how they play when it is raining, they nibble on algae and find a lot of other foodstuff which they enjoy. They play with each other,  they come to the surface to look around, they are living, breathing beings, not playthings for stupid people who want to impress who knows who!

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Monday; monday....

Keep it in your mind

Every day is the best day for you.

You are lucky,

because it belongs to you, whatever you make of it.

It can sparkle with pleasure or  fret with anguish it is up to you and  to you only.  Titania

Sad...


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Photos from my garden.

Sepia Saturday 181; the bling we love;

This is one of my mothers old jewellery boxes. It is made of velvet but the top of painted silk is deteriorating rapidly.  I have chosen three of her everyday pieces she wore. I wear the ring with the ruby. A small brooch of 24 carat gold, it is very soft and has a diamond in it. I like the simple gold brooch with a row of garnets. My sister and my eldest daughter have necklaces, bracelets and rings. I have also her wedding ring which is double with the added ring of my father when he died. It was the custom to add the husbands ring. All these pieces are very old. 

Double string of Mikimoto pearls; they have never changed their lustre, but had to be restrung from time to  time.

Mikimoto had received a patent in 1896 for producing hemispherical pearls, or mabes, and a 1908 patent for culturing in mantle tissue, but he could not use the Mise-Nishikawa method without invalidating his own patents. Mikimoto then altered his patent application to cover a technique to make round pearls in mantle tissue, which was granted in 1916. However, this method was not commercially viable. Mikimoto finally made arrangements to use Nishikawa's methods after 1916, and Mikimoto's business began to expand rapidly.

The new technology enabled Japan's cultured pearl industry to quickly expand after 1916; by 1935 there were 350 pearl farms in Japan producing 10 million cultured pearls annually.

By 1935 the Japanese pearl industry was facing oversupply issues and plummeting prices for Japanese cultured pearls. Mikimoto promoted Japanese pearls in Europe and the USA to counteract falling prices. He publicly burnt tons of low-quality pearls as a publicity stunt to establish a reputation that the Mikimoto company only sold high-quality cultured pearls.

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Monday; mail;

Send a message!

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Thursday; Bush Poetry;

Henry Lawson

Writer

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period.

Born: June 17, 1867, Grenfell

Died: September 2, 1922, Sydney

A Bush Girl

She's milking in the rain and dark,

As did her mother in the past.

The wretched shed of poles and bark,

Rent by the wind, is leaking fast.

She sees the “home-roof” black and low,

Where, balefully, the hut-fire gleams—

And, like her mother, long ago,

She has her dreams; she has her dreams. 

The daybreak haunts the dreary scene,

The brooding ridge, the blue-grey bush,

The “yard” where all her years have been,

Is ankle-deep in dung and slush;

She shivers as the hour drags on,

Her threadbare dress of sackcloth seems—

But, like her mother, years agone,

She has her dreams; she has her dreams. 

The sullen “breakfast” where they cut

The blackened “junk.” The lowering face,

As though a crime were in the hut,

As though a curse was on the place;

The muttered question and reply,

The tread that shakes the rotting beams,

The nagging mother, thin and dry—

God help the girl! She has her dreams. 

Then for “th’ separator” start,

Most wretched hour in all her life,

With “horse” and harness, dress and cart,

No Chinaman would give his “wife”;

Her heart is sick for light and love,

Her face is often fair and sweet,

And her intelligence above

The minds of all she’s like to meet. 

She reads, by slush-lamp light, may be,

When she has dragged her dreary round,

And dreams of cities by the sea

(Where butter’s up, so much the pound),

Of different men from those she knows,

Of shining tides and broad, bright streams;

Of theatres and city shows,

And her release! She has her dreams. 

Could I gain her a little rest,

A little light, if but for one,

I think that it would be the best

Of any good I may have done.

But, after all, the paths we go

Are not so glorious as they seem,

And—if t’will help her heart to know—

I’ve had my dream. ’Twas but a dream. 

Henry Lawson

Photo taken in Bourke Ts

Tuesday; beauty;

Paraffin wax

Doctors use Botox and collagen to rejuvenate faces. They also use silicone inserts to enhance breast size.

Is it insecurity or stupidity that makes women submit their bodies, their health  to such awful and unnecessary procedures? 

But the history of wrinkle reduction and breast implants actually starts much earlier than people realize. 
The first recorded attempts at wrinkle removal and artificial breast enhancement were carried out prior to the 1900s.
The procedure involved injecting paraffin wax directly into the wrinkled area to smooth it out, or directly into the breast to increase its volume. 
The practice quickly fell out of favour for good reason. Harsh infections were a common side effect of this technique. It also caused the formation of hard, painful lumps known as paraffinomas. 

Now this Paraffin wax technic is called primitive.
Perhaps in 20 years time Botox and silicone procedures will  also be called  primitive!  Paraffin wax is a white or colourless soft solid that is used as a lubricant and for other applications.

Paraffin
Alkane
Kerosene, a fuel that is commonly known as paraffin in Britain, Southeast Asia and South Africa.
Tractor vaporising oil, a fuel
Liquid paraffin (medicinal)
Mineral oil
Petroleum jelly, also called soft paraffin

Botox

Botulinum toxin is a protein and neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinumIt is the most acutely toxic substance known.

Botulinum toxin can cause botulism, a serious and life-threatening illness in humans and animals. Popularly known by one of its trade names, Botox, it is used for various cosmetic and medical procedures'

In cosmetic applications, a Botox injection, consisting of a small dose of botulinum toxin, can be used to prevent development of wrinkles by paralyzing facial muscles. As of 2007, it is the most common cosmetic operation, with 4.6 million procedures in the United States, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Qualifications for Botox injectors vary by county, state and country. Botox cosmetic providers include dermatologists, plastic surgeons, aesthetic spa physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, nurses and physician assistants. The wrinkle-preventing effect of Botox normally lasts about three to four months.

Silicon

a tetravalent metalloid, is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon, the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table, 

Symbol: Si Electron configuration: Ne 3s2 3p2 Melting point: 1,414 °C Atomic number: 14 Atomic mass: 28.0855 ± 0.0003 u Discoverer: Jöns Jacob Berzelius Since the mid-1990s, the Fifth generation of silicone breast implant is made of a semi-solid gel that mostly eliminates filler leakage (silicone gel bleed) and silicone migration from the breast to elsewhere in the body. The studies Experience with Anatomical Soft Cohesive Silicone gel Prosthesis in Cosmetic and Reconstructive Breast Implant Surgery (2004) and Cohesive Silicone gel Breast Implants in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery (2005) reported low incidence rates of capsular contracture and of device-shell rupture, improved medical safety and technical efficacy greater than earlier generations of breast implant device.

Beauty is not perfect.

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Sepia Saturday 179; a barrel of...

My three girls in the barrel in the late sixties.  It was supposed  for a dog, but our dogs never used it, but the girls loved it to play hide and seek.

The canton of Thurgau is known for its fine agricultural produce. Particularly, apples, pears, fruits and vegetables are well-known. The many orchards in the canton are mainly used for the production of cider.

Farmers had a barrel like this one in the cellar. In autumn after the apple harvest it was filled with sweet apple juice that fermented slowly. Every night 1 full jug  was taken up and drunk, as the barrel had to be emptied and cleaned out again for the next harvest.

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Thursday;...found...

....again a note, or better sort of  a map for me from my granddaughter, hidden in  this cookbook

 I had not taken out for a while.

 As I was leafing through I found a map, the paper crumpled to make it look old.

♥

The map shows some part of my home . It must have been for a while in this cookbook. I always get these little surprises from Fabrizia. She is an interesting child always leaves me little notes hidden somewhere in books. She loves to write and carries always many note books around the pages full with small stories.
She has done that since she was tiny.She also liked to keep the receipts from the shops, which she carried around in envelopes.Letters and numbers  fascinated her. In the library she did not want picture books, she only took the ones with letters or numbers. She loves to go into a shop where they sell beautiful notebooks, sometimes I buy her one she especially covets.  It is fun to have grand children, in the holidays they come for sleepovers and they give you  spontaneously big hugs, I love you.

Fabrizia, January 2010

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Wednesday; Bookshelf;

Lawrence M. Krauss

Physicist

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is a professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of Arizona State University's Origins Project. 

A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing is a book by physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, first published in 2012, discussing various scientific ideas related to cosmogony.

Michael Brooks for New Scientist writes "Krauss will be preaching only to the converted. That said, we should be happy to be preached to so intelligently. The same can't be said about the Dawkins afterword, which is both superfluous and silly.

Whatever is said about his books;  

Lawrence Krauss is brilliant. His books should be on every bookshelf.

Monday; dreams;

Dear Paul Laurence Dunbar; the best American Poet.

Dreamtime;  

  

Pray, what can dreams avail

To make love or to mar?

The child within the cradle rail

Lies dreaming of the star.

But is the star by this beguiled

To leave its place and seek the child?

The poor plucked rose within its glass

Still dreameth of the bee;

But, tho’ the lagging moments pass,

Her Love she may not see.

If dream of child and flower fail,

Why should a maiden’s dreams prevail?

Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Photo/ morning in my garden Ts

Sunday; amazing;

Sunrise;

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times of Earth.
Three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder consists of heavier elements,  oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and others.
The sun generates its energy by nuclear fusion.
In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second.

Sunrise;

The Sun is now thought to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs.
The Sun's hot corona continuously expands in space.
It creates solar wind, a stream of charged particles, extending to the heliopause at roughly 100 astronomical units.
The bubble in the interstellar medium formed by the solar wind, the heliosphere, is the largest continuous structure in the Solar System.
Of the 50 nearest stellar systems within 17 light-years from Earth, the closest  a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri at approximately 4.2 light-years away.

Sunrise;

The Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at a distance of approximately 24,000–26,000 light-years from the galactic centre. The sun completes one clockwise orbit, as viewed from the galactic north pole, in about 225–250 million years. 

The mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is approximately 149.6 million kilometres.  The distance varies as the Earth moves from perihelion in January to aphelion in July.

 At this average distance, light travels from the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

 The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis, drives Earth's climate and weather. 

The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times.

The Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity.

Sunset;

Currumbin-Valley April 17:29 PM

There are still anomalies in the Sun's behaviour that are not yet explained and may remain so. 

 

Note that the light-year is a measure of distance. It is not a measure of time, for which it is sometimes mistaken.

1 light-year = 9460730472580800 metres (exactly)

  ˜ 5.878625 trillion miles  ˜ 63241.077 astronomical units  ˜ 0.306601 parsecs

The figures above are based on a Julian year  of exactly 365.25 days.

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Sepia Saturday 178; Portraiture;

My grandmother Franziska born 1889 and died 1922 shortly after her last son was born. He is still alive and well. I don't know when this photo was taken. She married in 1914. She had five of her children before she was married to her husband. It was the custom,women  were not shunned when they had children out of wedlock. Then she had 5 more.Two boys died as babies, 2 boys died in WW 2. Her Mother was Theresia Marchetti-Schneeberger, she had two daughters, my grandmother Franziska and Aloisia who went to live in Italy.

Original colour of the portrait

My Mother Rosalia born 1910. I like this portrait from 1929 very much. She was always an elegant lady.She was also a very strong woman. I remember the scarf and the lavender violet brooch. It was made from velvet and tucked softly into a lavender box. Original colour of  the portrait.

Myself,  1959, oh my hairdo! That is the original colour of the portrait.

Marie-Louise 1989, my first born daughter;

Portrait original colour changed to sepia. Unfortunately there are some white age spots on the photo.

 Raphaelle Portia 2012,  her daughter, my first grand daughter.

Portrait original colour.

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As it is said so eloquently in Latin

TEMPUS FUGIT

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Thursday; not yet...W

Winter, just the first taste of it...

...brilliant sunrises...

..wrapped up in winter woollies...

..daylight at 6:30 AM..

..cool seasons beauties in the garden.

I like this subtle season’s change to softer light, 

 seek out the sunniest spot in the morning sun

and  watch the birds  noisy and bold,

 feast  on  the  cotoneaster ‘s coral berries. 

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Wednesday; scary;

The Gates of Hell

  a 100 meter wide hole found in Turkmenistan. A 1971 Soviet drilling accident caused the hole to leak dangerous gases. Scientists figured the best solution was to burn them off so they set fire to them. It has been burning non-stop since then and its glow can be seen from miles away. It is not known when (or if) the fires will burn out.

Courtesy share LISTVERSE Jamie Frater

Tuesday; facts;

Holes in pen lids were introduced to prevent suffocation regardless how far down the airway the lid  may be lodged.

In Amsterdam, the tiles under Shipol's urinals would pass inspection for cleanliness. Nobody might notice it.  What is noticed, that each urinal has a fly in it. If you look harder the fly turns into a black outline of a fly etched into the porcelain. It improves the aim! If a man sees the fly he aims at it!

Fly-in-urinals research found that etchings reduce spillage by 80%. Does this give you something to think about? It is the perfect example of process control.

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