Tag: rest

IMAGES OF SMALL THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #708 – BURNIN’ THE CANDLE @ BOTH ENDS?

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Meaning of Burning the candle at both ends or multi-tasking!

This English idiom can mean:

1. To work (or do some other activity) from early in the morning until late at night without taking time (or very little time) to rest.

2. To try and do too much work (or an activity) in a short amount of time with very little rest.

3. To work more than you need to or should do.

4. To overwork without a break.

5. To live at a very fast or hectic pace with pause.

Basically it means you try and do too much and you will likely burn yourself out (= your energy will be completely used up) soon.

When you think of a candle, if you light only one end, it might take 2 hours to burn out completely. But, if you were able to light both ends of the candle where there is a flame at both ends like in the cartoon, then it would take less time to completely burn, maybe only an hour instead of two. So it burns, or is used up, in much less time.

Also, to burn a candle at both ends you would need to have it held horizontally. Doing so the flame will still be going upwards and it would burn directly in the wax, making the candle drip more and burn quicker. You may have twice as much light coming from the candle though it will only last half the time or even less.  ©Woodward English

How often do you burn the candle at both ends? ††† en theos ††† jim

IMAGES OF SMALL THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #679 – Bored but leave me alone

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Ah the weather outside is frightening

and the cat Mindy is as bored as me.

She briefly allowed me a little time for photos, but was generally bored with the whole human concept of using a camera.

We both made it a short lived exercise and she returned to her purrs and I my chair and good reads.

enjoy the cold and sleep as much as a cat…en theos †† jim

Photo of Da Day @ Da Pine #360

Taking time for a little stretch.I guess when you beat your wings at a 100 time a second and your heart rate races up to 1000 pulses per minute, that you also earn a break every now and then.With the exception of insects, hummingbirds while in flight have the highest metabolism of all animals, a necessity in order to support the rapid beating of their wings. Their heart rate can reach as high as 1,260 beats per minute, a rate once measured in a Blue-throated Hummingbird. They also consume more than their own weight in nectar each day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.Hummingbirds are capable of slowing down their metabolism at night, or any other time food is not readily available. They enter a hibernation-like state known as torpor. During torpor, the heart rate and rate of breathing are both slowed dramatically (the heart rate to roughly 50 to 180 beats per minute), reducing the need for food.So, how fast are you moving on your journey††††††††nada te turbe†††††††jim

via Photo of Da Day @ Da Pine #360.

Photo of Da Day @ Da Pine #360

Taking time for a little stretch.

I guess when you beat your wings at a 100 time a second and your heart rate races up to 1000 pulses per minute, that you also earn a break every now and then.

With the exception of insects, hummingbirds while in flight have the highest  metabolism of all animals, a necessity in order to support the rapid beating of their wings. Their heart rate can reach as high as 1,260 beats per minute, a rate once measured in a Blue-throated Hummingbird.  They also consume more than their own weight in nectar each day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.

Hummingbirds are capable of slowing down their metabolism at night, or any other time food is not readily available. They enter a hibernation-like state known as torpor. During torpor, the heart rate and rate of breathing are both slowed dramatically (the heart rate to roughly 50 to 180 beats per minute), reducing the need for food.

So, how fast are you moving on your journey††††††††nada te turbe†††††††jim