Tuesday, May 23, 2017
And the battle goes on.
At the last Town Meeting we passed a warrant item allowing chickens in suburban yards, a ruling apparently embraced with enthusiasm.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Fuzzy Afternoon
It probably says something about our social life that the
highpoint of our weekend was a picnic for dogs.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
What global warming?
Yesterday I climbed out of bed, pulled on socks, sweatpants, sweatshirt, sneakers, and parka, hitched up the tiny dog to her leash and took her out for her morning pee.
This morning at exactly the same time of day, I climbed out of bed, pulled on shorts and t-shirt, and stepped into my flip-flops and took the tiny dog out.
Today it's in the 90s,
Tomorrow night it will be 46 degrees.
New England is a whimsical place.
On the plus side, Mamie got a bath today minus the scary hair dryer, but the rest of the day will feature lots of sitting for everyone.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Before Nutrition
I remember my grandmother telling about her
shame at school in Mangum, Oklahoma
when she had to take “dirty bread” out of her lunch pail. Even back then my
forward-thinking great-grandmother Lucy Wilson had already figured out the
benefits of whole wheat bread.
And I like to think my mother
approved of watermelon for breakfast because of its antioxidants and amino
acids. (In reality, a grumpy kid in the blazing hot Virginia
summer mornings could have been a factor.)
But John Gray’s recent post at Going Gently about
his sheep and their love of white bread triggered a couple of memories from the 1950s food
pyramid.
It’s been years since I’ve had one,
but every now and then I’m tempted to pick up the ingredients for a baloney
sandwich: spongy white bread, Miracle Whip, and the ultimate illicit pleasure,
a big pack of baloney.
Granted, your peanut butter and
jelly sandwich was usually bleeding grape jelly through one side by the time
you opened your metal lunch box in the cafeteria, but the bread itself was
great for wadding into grey balls and flicking at your neighbor.
And in spite of my mother’s
offerings of a crunchy peeled white turnip or celery sticks with peanut butter
and raisins for a snack, just as common as an after-school treat at our house was white
bread spread with margarine and a generous sprinkling of white sugar.
Emptying the Basement
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Begging for Boxes
Monday, May 8, 2017
Hoover Horror
Sorry – I didn’t mean to drop off the edge of the blog
world. My absence is due more to mundanity and inertia than a madcap social life.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Public Service Announcement
It's not often I have a chance to use this blog for good rather than just blowing off steam.
(The fact that it's a slow news day here could be a factor, too, so maybe I'm not all that altruistic after all.)
Anyway, one of my favorite bloggers, Henny, at Henny Penny Lane included some helpful advice in her comment about my !!!TICK!!! adventure and I'm quoting it verbatim:
"One easy way to remove a tick that is buried and biting is to rub a little liquid hand soap on the tick and wait a few seconds, and the tick will easily come off."
I haven't tried it yet, but anyone who spends the amount of time she does in her garden knows what she's talking about.
(The fact that it's a slow news day here could be a factor, too, so maybe I'm not all that altruistic after all.)
Anyway, one of my favorite bloggers, Henny, at Henny Penny Lane included some helpful advice in her comment about my !!!TICK!!! adventure and I'm quoting it verbatim:
"One easy way to remove a tick that is buried and biting is to rub a little liquid hand soap on the tick and wait a few seconds, and the tick will easily come off."
I haven't tried it yet, but anyone who spends the amount of time she does in her garden knows what she's talking about.
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