Mirrors in the Garden

I enjoy looking at garden and landscape pictures and reading about garden and landscape ideas. It's a perfect pastime when it's too hot to be outside in my own garden and landscape.

If you spend enough time browsing garden and landscape concepts, you'll inevitably stumble into the mirror debate. The creativity camp wants an interesting mirror gracing the garden, and wildlife enthusiasts call cruelty, as birds might be hurt or killed by flying into the mirror thinking it's just more sky.

My question is this: how stupid does a bird have to be to collide with its own reflection? The idea is so preposterous that I can't even come up with a Jeremy Renner reference.

I experimented, myownself. I had a mirror in the garden for years. I'm happy to report no bird deaths. Occasionally a one-man cat fight, but never any bird casualties.

Simplify Your Adventure

Back in the late 1900's all the cool bookworms were eating up the Choose Your Own Adventure books.  Readers had a series of options to select from which would affect which ending of the story they would get, sometimes happy and sometimes not.

Current society seems totally into choosing its own everything, and the available options aren't good enough so it's defying reality to invent more.  You can decide to be a windstorm today and a green skinned purple haired Jeremy Renner tomorrow.  And the bizarrer the options people embrace, the miserabler they become.

After decades of adherence to regular common normal basic monotonous standard average boring established mundane classic traditional customary ways of life, I'm content with my adventure.  Current society despises content people, what with misery loving company and all, but I'm capable of being simultaneously despised and content.  If you're not afraid of being despised by current society and you'd like some joy and peace, simplify your adventure with me.

Summer Drinking Game

It's important to stay hydrated when it's this toasty outside.  I propose this foolproof idea to make sure you drink enough this summer.

Each time you wallow in negative emotions, catch yourself complaining, recall something stupid you said out loud, or watch Jeremy Renner interviews when you're supposed to be mowing the lawn, throw down a fat shot of water.  Whenever you receive a compliment, hear yourself laugh, have a happy thought, or actually finish something you started (not a fight, it has to be something positive), take a drink of lemonade or whatever your favorite bevvy might be.

With this life hack not only will you keep up your fluid intake, you'll also be training yourself to not be a timewasting whinybutt crybaby.

Now get off social media and toss some liquids down the hatch.