Do you wish to be a Good Witch… or a Bad Witch?

Would you be a Tin Man… or a Cowardly Lion?

Munchkin… or Flying Monkey?

Here’s your chance: the Garden Centers, Inc., of Valdosta are hosting a youth garden event called “Green Is OZsome” and they are not only looking for young gardeners to enter what they’ve grown they are also inviting EVERYone who wants to show up in any Wizard of Oz – themed costume!

The event is Saturday, May 4, 2019 at the historic Crescent on the corner of Patterson and Gordon Street, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

For more information, go to https://www.visitvaldosta.org/Play/green-cresent

Come on out and GET YOUR OZ ON!

LISTEN to The Old Lady!

Sometimes The Old Lady sees things that leave her speechless.

The Old Lady stood by a country highway, waiting to watch bicyclists race by and thinking she was just killing time, when suddenly she spotted the REAL reason she had stopped there:

a LOON was sitting on the ground nearby!

She knew something was wrong, but could not get close. These large predatory water birds have spear-like beaks, and this one was threatening to spear The Old Lady. She managed to shoo him into some shade where he felt safe and settled down, then she started making phone calls to find a wildlife rescue organization to come rescue him.

Some hours later, a volunteer from Goose Creek Wildlife Refuge showed up. She was trained in how NOT to get speared by beaks and soon had the loon packed in a crate.

The Refuge found nothing wrong with the loon. It seems that during rain a highway can look like a river to a bird flying overhead, but if a loon lands there he can’t take off again. Their legs are designed for swimming, not walking; they need to be swimming in order to get up enough speed to become airborne.

And the happy ending is… they released him into water the next day!

SUPPORT WILDLIFE RESCUE ORGANIZATIONS!

LISTEN to The Old Lady!

The Old Lady loves books and treats them with respect, cringing when she finds where careless readers have dogeared pages.

So it seemed odd that she would be drawn to a display of books that have been carved in various ways.

Dana Durwin is the clever book carver. Her daddy taught her how to use a scroll saw and “with a lot of time and patience” (she laughed) she developed her techniques for transforming old hardcovers into works of art.

Her A New Chapter Art collection includes books carved into letters of the alphabet and animal shapes as well as books with images carved inside them that correspond thematically with the title of the book.

What charming decorative items for a booklover’s bookshelf!

You can shop the entire collection at https://www.etsy.com/shop/anewchapterartllc/

Support local artists!

LISTEN to The Old Lady!

“My Google News app is chicken-littling me,” fussed The Old Lady.

“It keeps warning me that the sky is falling!”

First it was a story about an asteroid “dangerously close to Earth THIS WEEKEND!”

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Then Google News headlined “Old Russian Venus Probe Malfunction Could Crash Back to Earth” with no specific time frame.

“We all know things can fall on our heads,” The Old Lady mused. “Asteroids, coconuts, golf balls… to worry about it is to suffer over a thing that actually may never happen.”

And she went outside to admire the stars.

A friend shared a terrific idea with The Old Lady: he said that after his shower one morning he noticed the mirror had fogged up from steam, and without really thinking he drew a heart on the mirror with his finger. Then when he took his shower the next morning and the mirror fogged again, the heart was still visible.

“A love note to oneself!” exclaimed The Old Lady, “what a delightful way to start the day with a jolt of positive energy!”

LISTEN to The Old Lady!

Regular readers of this blog may remember Seth Welch, the young man who turned the loss of his sight into an Eagle Scout project that helped raise awareness of how it feels to be sight impaired. If you missed it, go read https://www.oldladyandpurpledragon.com/seths-vision/ right now; we’ll wait.

Back already? Good.

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His mother says he now has 20-50 vision.

His doctors are mystified.

And Seth?

He has taken up tennis!

In Indianapolis The Old Lady happened upon a parking meter on the sidewalk that was not for parking; it’s actually a collection box for donations to help the homeless.

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Don’t want to talk to the lady with the shopping cart? Can’t face the man with the “HOMELESS & HUNGRY” sign? Just drop your change in the meter and be on your way.

Automated alms? Only in America. 

A grassy roadside strip had been obviously freshly mowed… but just as obviously a patch of white wildflowers had been carefully avoided by the mower and left to bloom.

Did the person mowing perceive lovely flowers where another might see only weeds?

Were they being mindful of the pollinators, leaving them food?

Was it so that these flowers can produce seeds which will result in more flowers?

The Old Lady doesn’t know the reason… but it is actions like this that give her hope.

(While poking through the archives The Old Lady found the following, first published December 17, 2013, and liked it enough to give it a second airing)

So, the Old Lady was at work the other day… what’s that, kiddies?  The Old Lady has a JOB???

Sure she does!  You don’t think I’m making a living writing, do you?  Ever heard the term “starving artist?”

Old people work too.  You may have an elderly grandpa retired in Florida who works as a bagboy at Publix or an auntie who shelves books at the library, and don’t kid yourself with that crap they give you about “I was bored, I just needed something to get me out of the house.”  That’s what Mah-Jongg is for.  Truth is, they work because they need the money.  You know how hard it is to keep putting gas in the Toyota.  They do too.

ANY-way (as that cute little Ellen Degeneres says) the Old Lady was working at the drugstore where they persist in assigning her to the bowels of the Cosmetics Department.

Now, the Old Lady has never worn makeup in her life – why gild the lily? she figures – so she is totally at sea without a compass here.

First, the colors seem calculated to confuse.  Did you know that beige comes in shades?  There is not just Beige, but also Natural Beige, Medium Beige, Honey Beige, Warm Beige, Tawny Beige, NUDE Beige – that last one makes the Old Lady blush, she wants to keep it behind the counter, it just smacks of public indecency!

Conflicting claims are confusing, too.  One product promises “maximum shimmer” but another is guaranteed “shine free.”  Seems you should shop with a thesaurus.  (After I wrote that, the Purple Dragon got very excited – she thinks a thesaurus is a wordy sort of dinosaur, and she demanded to know if dinosaurs get to go shopping then why don’t dragons?  I had to tell her that smoking is not permitted inside the store.)

But I digress.

There is a product called “Age Defying with DNA Advantage Makeup.”  Let’s skip the “Age Defying” part – what we’re defying here is logic, ladies – and address the DNA Advantage part.  If you really believe that there is human genetic material in that bottle, then I’ve got some lovely waterfront property out in the Okefenokee Subdivision that I’ll sell to you for cheap.

“16 Hour Eyeshadow?”  The Old Lady is doing well if she can keep her eyes open for 16 straight hours.

“Plumping Lipgloss?”  What, we’re supposed to have skinny hips but fat lips are okay?  Did I miss that memo?

Some of this stuff, you can’t even figure out what it’s for.  “Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain” – what part of the body do you use that on?  And the “Retractable Chubby Crayon” – does this REALLY belong in Cosmetics or should it go with the coloring books over in Toys?

There’s also a “Crayon Concealer” that promises to “conceal any imperfection.”  The Dragon tried this one, and she informed me disgustedly that there are imperfections in this world that no crayon can conceal.

The Old Lady and the Purple Dragon both are intrigued by “Pink Truffle Lip Butter.”  It comes as luscious-looking little sticks encased in glittery gold metal containers.  The name alone makes you want to gnaw on one.

The Dragon is saving up for some “Moon Candy Nail Art.”  She’s trying to decide between two colors, Galactic and Cosmic.  Concepts as colors?  The Old Lady wishes she could show up at THAT creative brainstorming meeting with a book on proper English usage in hand.

There’s another line of nail polish with colors called “Let’s Talk” and “Let’s Meet.”  The Old Lady found herself searching the box for the third in that series, to no avail.  Darn.  Maybe “Let’s Hook Up” is kept behind the counter, too.

Some makeup offers a “Natural Look.”  The Old Lady has some advice for you: wash your face and there’s your Natural Look.  Listen to the Old Lady!