SST (Speechless Sunday with Text): Turn the mundane into the unusual

While many people become jealous of what others are able to do, I take what they can do as suggestions of what I myself could actually do.

I think inspiration is a far better emotion than jealousy.

Downtown at Seaport Village, there are often people who can balance rocks. Now I'm not talking about one rock, I'm talking about a big rock on top of a little rock on top of a big rock on top of a medium rock, etc. Seaport Village gets quite windy, but the wind doesn't seem to affect their ability to balance those dadgum (dadgum?) rocks.

Recently I was strolling the La Jolla Cove beach admiring the beach houses when I found one home surrounded by a sea wall with balanced rocks. La Jolla Cove beach also gets windy, as it was this day, but it just doesn't seem to affect balanced rocks. Here are two of them:

While these aren't the most magnificent balanced rocks, with the way the wind was blowing here, I could probably put a rock down on the ground and the wind would have blown it away down the beack.

I think the person who did this is well on his or her way to being able to do something that I cannot. I think I'll just be jealous in this one instance, if that's okay with my readers.

So if you have something mundane to do, like remove all those rocks from your back yard in preparation for doing some landscaping this summer, well, see if you can balance them. Your friends will be impressed, and if you send me some pictures, I'll be jealous of YOU, too!

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This week's blog posts (they will open in a new window)

1. Life series - 57 posts, various dates, most recently on 6/22/09
2. Guerrilla Marketing series - 7 posts, various dates, most recently on 6/22/09
3. Getting business from home and garden shows, fairs, and carnivals - 6/24/09
4. Is ActiveRain the new USA Today? - 6/24/09
5. WWW (Wordless Wednesday with Words): Teach them to help while they're young - 6/24/09
   
6. If you need help, don't be afraid to ask.... - 6/23/09

Last week's blog posts (they will open in a new window)

1. It's getting tough out here.... - 6/21/09
2. SST (Speechless Sunday with Text): Cotton candy tree - 6/21/09
3. Realtors, why do you compare this year's sales and prices to a year ago? - 6/21/09
4. Did President Obama let me down? - 6/19/09
5. San Diego Zoo slide show for the brave and courageous - 6/19/09
6. Foto Friday: Things aren't always what they seem - 6/19/09
7. The Flying Seagulls (slide show) - 6/18/09
8. The inspirational story of Capt. Wesley Moore - 6/17/09
9. WWW (Wordless Wednesday with Words): Let me help you.... - 6/17/09
10. Guerrilla Marketing series - 6 posts, various dates, most recently on 6/15/09

Previous week's blog posts (they will open in a new window)

1. How to effectively use anonymous/semi-anonymous testimonials - 6/14/09
2. Free Windows 2000, XP, and Vista programs for reducing the size of your pictures - 6/12/09
3. Foto Friday: Don't blow your top! - 6/12/09
4. It's okay to be personal (slide show included) - 6/11/09
5. WWW (Wordless Wednesday with Words): Anyone you know? - 6/10/09
6. Where do you get your energy? - 6/9/09
7. Is someone you know slithering? Help them out! - 6/9/09
8. Is everything you try being blocked by someone? - 6/8/09

Helpful posts for ActiveRain newbies (Yep. They'll open in a new window)

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