What’s in Bloom?

Previous owners planted quite a few bulbs with reckless abandon. I’ve moved most of them to more appropriate locations. Yellow daffodils bloomed a month ago. This variety is blooming now.
Most of the herbs are planted around the front porch. I’ve never had parsley survive the winter before – or grow so [...]

Dog and Cat’s Diaries

The Dog’s Diary*

8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm – Milk bones! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm – Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 [...]

I Don’t Feel Like It

Today is Fight the Frump with Fussy day. I’ve tried to get motivated to fight it this week – to no avail.
I think it’s because of my hair. I’ve needed a haircut for a few weeks now – I’m starting to look like Little Orphan Annie.

My last few “professional” haircuts have been really awful – [...]

Links and Interesting Information

Free Diet Plans
Similar to online tools offered by Weight Watchers, but without the fees.
Is Your Child’s Sunscreen Doing More Harm Than Good? Includes a list of ingredients to avoid with links to lists that help you decide which products to avoid and which ones are safer.
Yet another use for ice cube tray
And a recipe for [...]

Earth Day

I have been called a tree-hugger more than once in my life. Being a child of the 60s, we invented this environmental awareness concept. (Well, maybe not, but we claimed to anyway.)
I’m generally careful about conserving resources. I remember taking recyclables to the designated dumpsters in the school parking lot once a [...]

Weight Watcher’s Product for Cats

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Mad Scientist

Read this for an interesting commentary on “what’s wrong with this guy.”
Remember the Back to the Future movies? Doesn’t Christopher Lloyd’s professor character remind you of this guy?

Pilot’s Inscription

The Gospel according to John specifically speaks of an inscription written by Pilot himself, and placed over Jesus as He hung on the cross. The inscription usually bore the charges against the person being hung. In this case, Pilot’s inscription was written as an identification.
What Pilot wrote caused a great commotion among the religious leaders, [...]

What Do I Know?

My daughter-in-law read yesterday’s post with my four-year-old grandson nearby. When the first model appeared on the screen, he noticed.
Caleb: Mommy, who is that?
Mommy: It’s a model. She’s not someone we know.
Caleb: Can I kiss her?
Mommy: I guess so…
Caleb: *Smack* (Kisses the laptop screen)
It seems he finds an anorexic model wearing a bizarre dress and [...]

The Empresses’ New Clothes

Ya gotta wonder about designers sometimes. Are they sitting at sidewalk cafes snickering at us over their lattes?
Static cling used to be a bad thing. This designer decided to create fashions with the look built right in. It may be difficult to tell looking at one photo, but the entire dress sits [...]