21st August 2006:

Back to work today...

20th August 2006:

We are back from Paris now... had a good time... we want to go to Rome next and maybe Barcelona... also a holiday in Malta and also diving in the Red Sea... :-)

We are going to paint the next coat on the bookshelf we are doing, this afternoon...

16th August 2006:

Ahhhh! Time is passing by... tomorrow we go on our trip to Paris... hopefully, the eurostar won't be too busy... but maybe not...

5th August 2006:

I have been learning about HTML and been on a Dreamweaver course... I can see a pathway through where I can re-write my website... and hopefully be more in control of the HTML... :-)

3rd August 2006:

This weekend we hope to do lots of things! Yippee!

1st August 2006:

The Cracked Pot

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."

"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each! of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

So, to all of my crack pot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!