Well, here, at least, is something green for St. Paddy's Day - Lucy's Fabulous Pickles - which are somehow symbolic of how i feel right now...in a Right Pickle! - finally managed, after about two hours, to upload the "Creative Commons Licence" onto my Blog, however, now i have it in three places and have not been able to edit the two extra ones out! oh well! [if anyone can help me that would be great] -- now i am going to fix dins. while i munch on one of these delicious edibles.......(photo by pj circa 2004)

Cleaning out my filing cabinet - and in a file marked Pizzazz i found this on a sheet of paper: SONGS; "Bread and Roses" which reads: ** "In 1912 women mill-workers struck for higher pay (then $8.76 for a 56-hour week). Their plea was for "bread, but roses, too", and it became their marching song, put to music by James Oppenheimer. Incidentally, they didn't get a pay raise, but their hours were reduced from 56 to 54 hours per week!"

2nd verse reads: "As we come marching, marching we battle too for men,
For they are women's children and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes:
Hearts starve as well as bodies give us bread, but give us roses!

3rd verse: As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
at their ancient cry for bread.
Small art, and love, and beauty
their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread that we fight for
...but we fight for roses, too!

this is one of the most recent photos of me that i don't mind, but still, it is about 2 years old, taken by my daughter when we went to White Rock for the day. We had a wonderful time at the Iguana Grill, my fave restaurant there....i was very happy that day! [the wings came later, lol]