Rockhome Garden

170 miles from Chicago, 30 miles from Champaign, IL, Rockhome Gardens is five miles west of Arcola. It is a unique garden with much unusual rockwork that caters to tourists and gives some insight into the 1800's life and the Amish. Throughout the garden are posted many 'amusing Amish Dutch' sayings. A pamphlet, "Rockhome Sayings", records many of them. Here are a few:

Suggested names for garden clubs: "Hoe and Hope", "Weeders Digest", "Plan and Ponder", and "Yard Birds".

There's no fool like an old fool. You just can't beat experience.

Criticism is the one thing most of us think is more blessed to give than to receive.

A smile always adds to your "face value". 

Rule 10

Found in storage a 1965 Elements of Style in which "Use the active voice." is number 10 not 14 as in my 2000 Fourth Edition.

What changed?

Elementary Rules of Usage forms Part I. Part II, Elementary Principles of Composition,  continues the numbering from Part I. Part I had four less rules in 1965. Life just keep getting more complicated.

Mark Twain

Still sorting, tossing, and giving away stuff from the storage garage. I'm about 35% cleared out;  the work left is daunting. Found an old poster with Mark Twain's profile sketch and a paddle wheeler. I hung it by my desk.

Mark Twain:  "I have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened."

Rule # 14

Rule # 14 in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White: "Use the active voice."