Rach's花园

老公不是个话多的人，中文都说的不利索，但是歌唱的好。风流才子总是用文字抒发感情，老实巴交的老公是用他的歌。想起一个小品里，一个结巴说话很不利索，每次和别人说话都是唱歌。老公的歌也是一样，用来表达他看到的东西或者心情。

也不知道他脑子里到底记得多少歌，经常他会不经意的哼唱起很老很老化石级的流行歌或者儿童歌曲，这些歌的歌词都是很应景的，所以常常都会逗得我大笑。

比如有时后早上到时间起床了，他还睡眼惺忪的不想起床。等闹钟响了好几遍后才磨磨蹭噌地从被子里爬出来，一边叹气一边唱“今天不是星期五，怎么那么倒霉的遇见你… …”他从来没有在星期五的早上唱过这首歌。

等最后一次雪融化了以后，太阳也暖和起来了，老公喜欢趴在客厅窗前的大沙发上，撅着屁股望着窗外，一边快乐的唱起“春天在哪里啊春天在哪里，春天在那小朋友的眼镜里… …”。下雨的时候老公会唱起那首“春天里的小雨淅淅沥沥，淅淅沥沥下个不停… …”。在公园里散步看着河水哗哗的流过时他会唱“小河里的流水哗啦啦啦啦啦，哗啦啦啦啦啦流个不停… …”开车的时候，一场突然的太阳雨会让他唱起张行的那首“太阳雨”。。。 。。。

我买了一盆小植物，放在厨房的窗台上。老公走过厨房的时候就唱起“老师的窗前有一盆米兰… …”。在前院除杂草的时候，我总是在手边放一个盆子，用来装挖出来的野草。老公和我挖杂草，然后他突然发现草地上长了个蘑菇，于是他就唱“采蘑菇的小姑娘，背着一个大箩筐，清早光着小脚丫… …”看到老婆我打扮漂亮的时候他会突然唱起“有一位乡村姑娘，她生来脾气多么刚强… …”我听得一脸黑线。有时候我看着胖乎乎的老公，觉得他实在是太可爱了，忍不住抱抱他的大肚皮，他居然会唱“我不是一个随便的男孩，请你快走开！”我又是一脸黑线。

他还有好多歌，我都没听过或者很小的时候听过但早就忘的，我问他唱的什么歌，他说他也不知道是什么歌。他自己也奇怪为什么20多年前的歌会突然从他嘴里冒出来，有外界刺激的时候，他就自然而然的想起那些歌来了。真不知道以后还有什么刺激会让他唱起某个让我一脸黑线又或者捧腹大笑的老歌。

公司的福利包针灸按摩。朋友推荐了一位中医，于是就抱着试一试的心态去了。原以为是个五六十岁左右的老太太，没想是个三四十岁的女医生，这在中医里算是很年轻的了，不知道她的医术如何。不过既然来了我也就让她给我看看了。她和她丈夫都是针灸师，小小的医馆里放着佛教音乐，一个迷你佛像前面点着檀香。

医生问了问我的情况，建议我扎三个疗程，每疗程连扎10次，然后休息10天，再继续扎。第一天扎针的时候一点都不疼，只是感到轻微的刺痛。第二天医生扎针之前，拿出一根粗大的针， 在我的十根手指和十只脚趾的穴位上快速地扎出一个个小孔，然后挤出血。 十只连心，这就像满清十大酷刑似的，虽然我一向都很能忍疼，但是我还是很怕这个。

扎了几天针灸之后，当细细的银针扎到身体里的时候就觉得以前不疼的地方开始疼了，医生说以前不觉得疼是因为体内气脉不通顺，对外界的刺激不敏感，但是随着治疗，气脉也通了，对外界的刺激也就敏感起来了。 扎针灸还有好多禁忌，好多东西都不能吃，嘴一向很馋的我有的受了。现在第一疗程结束了，鼻炎就犯了，自从我上大学，鼻炎就没有犯的如此严重，据医生说是我治疗的反应。每天鼻子被擦的生疼，双眼红红的，难受又难看。加上每天两次的中药，唉，真是要受点苦了

最近风老是好大，头顶大片的乌云快速的飘动，视野也就随之忽晴忽阴。枫树尖尖已经开始红了，白桦树的叶子变成最好看的黄绿相间，加上白色的树皮，真是好看极了。

夏天的尾巴完全看不见了，可爱的夏天完全退出多伦多了。多伦多的夏天是非常美好的，永远都不会太热。在夏日的周末开车去Wasaga Beach 的沙滩。 那里有细软的被太阳晒的温暖的沙子，孩子们拿着小塑料桶和铲子在沙滩上挖着，堆砌沙堡和运河。大人们拉起网子，打沙滩排球。我喜欢这里温暖的湖水。湖水很浅，走到离岸边100米的地方，水也只到肩膀。在宽广的湖水里自由的游来游去，第一次感受到做一条鱼的快乐。以前都是在游泳池里，人太多，千人一起泡澡，局促的空间让人很难游开来，加上时不时有人肉炮弹，打的你周围的水域水花乱溅，或者不小心划水的时候双手触碰到别人或不经意的被别人触碰，那种举措紧张的感觉和在湖水里的畅快无法相比。在湖水里，我想怎么扑腾就怎么扑腾，想往哪里游就往那里游。放开四肢，平躺在水面上，随着湖水荡漾，看着白云在蓝天里飘着，感觉自己也变成了一片云，没有了重量，没有了负担。上岸时才重新感觉到重力的存在，双腿无力，很不适应。估计美人鱼刚刚走上陆地时就是这样的感觉吧。

多伦多的秋天也是很美的，呼号的大风就像一把沾满颜料的大刷子，一夜之间就给多伦多画上浓烈的色彩，金黄，火红，深红，墨绿，亮白… … 朋友建议去做小火车，绕着小路森林看红叶。一年一度的机会当然不能错过。还有粉红色的鲑鱼，九月底就又洄游到它们的出生地了。去年去早了一个星期，没看到震撼的洄游场面。今年一定不能错过了。肥兔儿啊，你今年不许再懒了。短暂的秋天一过，冬天就来了，那可是六个月的天寒地冻啊，想着就有点怕。

Earthquake Safety Tip - This is totally different than what we were taught:
Please read this and pass the info along to your family members; it could save their lives someday!

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE:  "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with&nb sp;rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries.

I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake.  Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lyingdown next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings fallingupon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the  "triangle of life". The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch col lapsed buildings , on television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN  BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death.  People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less
squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed.  A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on The back of the door of every room telling   occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out thedoor or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to asofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed.  How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated.  Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.  The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.

8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior.  The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway.  The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles.  They were all killed.  They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles.  Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them.  All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact.  Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!

"We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly"

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul , University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test.  We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover. There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the "triangle of life."  This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

昨天下午1点48分左右，办公室突然左摇右晃起来，还伴随着一阵有节奏感的轰鸣。 地震了！我下意识地跳了起来。 办公室在顶楼，时常有人在顶楼做维护，轰鸣声听起来很像是有人故意用力跺着脚在屋顶踱步的声音。摇晃持续了几秒钟。跑出办公室，看到其他同事，他们也都感到了办公楼的摇晃。 我马上给老公打电话，他居然说他的同事们都感觉到地震的摇晃，但是他完全没有注意到。这个胖子，对潜在的危险反应太迟钝了。后来看新闻得知在渥太华附近发生了5.0级地震。因为地震级别不高，所以没有造成大的损失。真没想到多伦多这个连座小山包都找不到的地方也会有地震。新闻还说多伦多当天傍晚有暴风雨甚至龙卷风。 今天是G20的第一天，昨天世界各国首脑陆续到达多伦多，也许是这么多重量级人物齐聚多伦多让地壳不堪重负，所以才发生地震了吧，哈哈！暴风雨，龙卷风，地震，游行抗议，陆路飞行封锁，逮捕等等一系列新闻似乎都预示着这次峰会充满挑战，暗流涌动。

天上的云层挡住了太阳，这是最理想的天气了。没有烈日的暴晒，可以慢慢的划动手中的桨，随意的在清澈的河水上顺流而下。河道时窄时宽，弯弯曲曲，两岸的风景也随之变化，刚刚两边都是山，转一个弯，山就消失了，取而代之的是一个小岛。河水的深浅不一。开始的一段河水很平稳，大家都嘻嘻哈哈的说笑着，也没有注意前方的水况有变化，突然我们发现河水流速变快了，还有一片乱石浅滩横在我们面前，于是大家奋力把船头调往右边的河岸，想要避开浅滩，可是我们发现的太晚了，筏子还是被河水冲上了浅滩。我们不幸搁浅了。我们后面的一筏子人和我们一样也搁浅在那片乱石滩子上了。筏子上所有人用船桨使出了全身的力气才把筏子给撑出了那片浅滩，重新回到了河道上。之后大家就学乖了，看前面的人怎么走，我们跟着他们走，后来的浅滩和大岩石都轻松的避过了。

经过一座小山的时候，向导指挥我们靠岸。山腰上有一个小洞，水不停地从山上流下来。这是一个gypsum 矿洞，1820年由一些人用手一点点地挖开的，在1920年的时候就被废弃了。我们小心的爬上湿滑的山，来到洞口。洞口非常小，只能容一个人，并且要完全蹲下来，低着头猫着腰爬进去。一进去就闻到一股臭味，那臭味就是这gypsum发出来的味道。

从洞里出来，又划了20分钟的样子再次靠岸。向导带着我们开始hiking.沿路他教我们认识了两种有毒的植物，告诫大家一定不要碰，否则你的皮肤会又痒又肿，非常痛苦。一个叫stinging nettle. 就是下面这种植物。

还有一个名字我不记得了。样子很可爱，三片叶子中间长出一串berry 一样的东西，但是据说是非常毒的，如果你不小心碰到的话，你的四肢会红肿奇痒。



Hiking 的路线是一条沿着山腰蜿蜒崎岖的小道。只有不到半米宽，左边是树木茂密的山崖，山崖上有一颗树据说有1790年高龄。由于刚下过雨，地有些湿滑。大家都走得很小心。这条道被一些mountain biker用来练习，所以每隔一段距离，就会在一颗树上看到一块白色的标记。真是佩服敢在这条羊肠小道上骑自行车的人，一不小心就会滚到山崖下去。Hiking 的终点就是刚刚我们去过的那个山洞的正上方的山顶。从这里往下望，风景非常美。蜿蜒的河道，两岸都郁郁葱葱，一只火红的独木舟正顺流而下，河对岸的山顶比我们这头低，山顶上有一幢巨大的房子，房子周围的草地修剪的平平整整，远远的望去就像是童话故事才能见到的场景。

Hiking 结束后大家又继续朝终点前进。途中突然下起雨来，开始雨不大，大家都享受着这夏日的冰凉，但是雨突然越来越大，前面的一条筏子停到一座大桥的桥墩下避雨，我们也加快手中的划桨的速度，想要去桥墩下避雨。可是我们到了桥墩附近时速度太快，而且角度没有调整好，我们的手没有抓到桥墩，又被冲了出去，不过雨很快就又停了。划了两个多小时的我们又累又饿，不停的问同船的导游烧烤的地方到了没有。

到了终点，大家都闻到了烤肉香，虽然我平时不爱吃热狗汉堡，不过饿了什么都觉得好吃了。吃完后，向导带了些人去body rafting. 其实就是穿上救生衣，仰面朝天，享受那种随波逐流的自由感觉。很可惜，我的朋友来的不是时候，我没法下河。叫肥兔去，连游泳裤都给他带来了，可他好说歹说就是不去。如果他去了，我的遗憾也就会得到些弥补。肥兔太让我失望了

打道回府之前，导游要带我们去看一年一度的印第安原住民的一个舞蹈节，不过事先没勘察好地址，那司机边开车边看地图，居然走丢了。说到这个司机，真是牛人一个，驾驶室里堆满了大大小小的地图，车上没有GPS，去什么地方都是一手打方向盘，一手翻阅地图找地方，一边嗖嗖的超车。不过再牛，到了这个标志不齐全的乡下还是迷失方向了，导游不得不在每一个能看到人的地方下车问路。就这么乱走一气了一个多小时之后，总算是摸着了方向，不过由于时间都被浪费在找路上，我们只看了10分钟的舞蹈表演就启程回家了。这又是个小小遗憾。