1. It’s pretty bad when making a call to your credit card company to correct a statement discrepancy is considered “resting” on a busy day because you get to sit down to do it. 2. You’d be surprised how many times you can fit “phase two in which Doris gets her oats” into a conversation. [...]
1. A California mayor says piped in recorded birdsong has lowered crime in his city. 2. A crow goes sledding HERE. You have to see it to believe it. 3. Seen on Facebook next to a picture of Gingrich: Family Values – Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife [...]
1. Last time I cried: Monday night while listening to Smokey Robinson sing (Abraham Martin John and Bobby) about the assassination of so many of our treasured leaders at the White House Celebration of the Civil Rights movement, aired on PBS for Martin Luther King Day. 2. On the same night I laughed uncontrollably watching [...]
1. THIS is what happens when you give thousands of kids thousands of stickers. 2. Interesting that as the globe is literally heating up and the people on it are heating up too, protesting injustices here and worldwide. 3. If tingle is a quieter version of jingle, is tangle less mangled than jangle? 4. I [...]
1. Tingle and jingle not only rhyme, they mean close to the same thing, only a tingle is less loud than jingle. 2. Things that make me curse: when I fix a fresh cup of tea on my way out, put on the floorboard of my car, and it spills before I have a chance [...]
1. I got a Christmas ecard from Nancy Pelosi and one from the French Spa designer at Primland Resort. 2. I forgot today was Thursday because I forgot yesterday was Wednesday and that Tuesday was Tuesday and so on. 3. I love the name Yellow Dubmarine for THIS Beatles reggae tribute band that I found [...]
1. This year’s interactive Christmas card HERE. 2. THIS is my current favorite Christmas song. 3. Floyd’s Heartsong singers, founded by my friend Rosemary, sing hymns and other songs (mostly spiritually comforting) to homebound and hospice people. Listen HERE. 4. “An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows [...]
1. Check out THESE thirteen strangely different Christmas trees. 2. And THIS bizarre Christmas Card sent out by a Puerto Rican Mayor and his family. 3. Some people go to Florida to retire. Others go HERE. 4. Speaking of bizarre, I’m doing a story right now on an artist who uses red and white polka [...]
1. I’ve been known to announce “I’m going out” with an English accent and in the manner of Peter Rabbit’s mother before I leave the house. 2. If I get a weird look I follow that by scolding, “Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Your father had an accident and he was put in a [...]
1. A lot of people over the weekend were leaving my house with a brown paper bag. See why HERE. 2. At our Thanksgiving gratitude circle of about 15 people our host suggested everyone shut off their cell phones for an hour. Curious, I asked the group how many didn’t have a cell phone. I [...]
1. Driving my 3 year old grandson Bryce home after a sleepover over the weekend, I left Floyd at 3:15. About 30 minutes later I was puzzled when I saw it was just 3:19 until I realized I was reading a lit-up gas price sign and not a clock. 2. He was so worn out [...]
1. THIS makes me happy 2. I keep a rock by my bedroom window in case I have to scare away the neighborhood bear that might want to eat the deer that my husband Joe has hanging from the tree (our year’s supply of hunted meat.) 3. Sometimes I think that shadows are the real [...]
1. While researching cameras recently I kept coming across the term “hot shoe” and had to look it up. It’s the slot on the top of some cameras where a flash attachment goes. 2. Speaking of shoes, get a kick out of THESE. 3. I learned another new term this week when Tabor of One [...]
1. I brake for views but I go out of my way for a Five Guys restaurant. 2. I don’t know how I ended up in Walmart on Halloween but I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that they were selling bags of pine cones like the ones all over my yard. 3. There [...]
1. “Let your fingers do the walking,” the old yellow pages phone book refrain, has taken on a whole new meaning in today’s world of high speed computing. 2. Last night I was ordering pictures from Walmart.com, watching a video of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Occupy Wall Street in New York and writing [...]
1. Last night I saw a guy on TV wearing glasses with one lens round and the other one square. He was an artist of course. 2. I haven’t been good about matching my socks lately. At least they are all black. 3. THIS guy has explaining Occupy Wall Street in less than a minute [...]
1. I just got a Facebook invitation to attend a Sun Hall Music concert of a band named Ultraviolet Hippopotamus. 2. In the last couple of weeks I’ve heard (and danced to) live music by Love Farm, Mighty Shakey, Ember Swift and Boris Garica. 3. I was watching the PBS special “The Rise and Fall [...]
1. It was a good week. I killed a poisonous snake and had more than one date. 2. My son Josh, who has a composting outhouse on his North Carolina property, makes a good point when he says that future generations will balk when they hear that we used such a valuable resource as water [...]
