Twisted Memes

 

When predictive text does you dirty. 😂

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An oldie but goodie.

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A reminder for when you're feeling picked over.

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A modern take on the journey regarding the one ring.

And finally, did I already share this one here? 

He looks like Kevin Sorbo from back in the day, doesn't he?

 From the '90s Hercules tv series.

Meme Time

I love memes! When you want to connect with friends without a lot of words, memes are a great way to check in. So here you go, a brief roundup of how things are going here at Fernmire.

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The Pleasure of Bathtime

It will t-minus four weeks before I can have a bath or go to the public swimming pool. Until then, I do my best to enjoy hot showers. My bathtub is not even a particularly nice tub. It makes me feel like a whale in a fishbowl. We bought this house as a "fixer-up" but never got around to fixing 'er upper. Maybe we'll get a new bath when this one finally falls through to the basement.

One of the reasons I love Japanese culture so much is that they too revel in the joy of a good bath. The Osen is often a hot spring fed communal Japanese bath. Some pipe the hot spring water into private pools for rent others follow the traditional route of a larger communal pool. Some have a partition for a male side and female side, because you go into an Osen naked after you have bathed in the washroom. While now harder to find, some still offer mixed gender communal pools. Last time I was in Japan I went to one of these with my long-time college friends. Here's something you likely didn't know about me, I have two modest tattoos, one is the Japanese Kanji word for "Tiger" because I was born Year of the Tiger. (I spent 8 years learning Japanese history, literature, language and culture y'all! This tattoo is all I've got to show for my love and appreciation of the culture!) The second is a very simple wrap of what look like dots around my left ankle. It was inspired by a pattern from a border fragment on a piece pottery from 400 BCE La Tène era. To me it represents a reminder of where my family came from, a small bond to my European ancestry. I would like to get one more tattoo. A nod to my deep connection to this land of my birth.

My favorite bath of all! A private Japanese hot spring bath in an old ryokan (Japanese Inn.) I had the pleasure of such a bath years ago at a ryokan attached to a female Buddhist monastery in Kyoto!

Bath in an old Japanese Inn

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A men's bath in Luxembourg circa 1905-1950 (Postcard on Catwiki)

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French soldiers bathing WWI. Guerre, France 1914-1918

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Robert Fuller in the Laramie TV Series (1959-1963)

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I've hoped I've all inspired you all to go take a nice relaxing bath on my behalf! I've always been a simple lass, myself. I appreciate a hot soak in a bath of plain old Epsom salt for sore muscles and smooth healthy skin.