Speaking of the weather and gardening, I bought my tomato plants yesterday. Last year, I tried raising tomatoes from seeds I’d saved the year before that, and it was a disaster. This year, I have returned to the old ways: I went to the feed-and-seed store and bought the biggest honkin’ Better Boys they had! I might have tomatoes by the first of next week, if the weather holds.
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Good morning Villagers…..
GR 😉 ….you’re very special, I’ve always loved that song. And yes, it does put a pep in my step…think my girls will hear me singing it today 🙂 Thanks for the smile on my face.
The above retro reminds me of my house, only my husband is the one who usually gets to it first. One may think this is gross, but I’ve told him to let it dry first, and that way it won’t stain the carpet….what is it in that hard food that creates a stain. I feed them Nine Lives Daily Essentials.
Going into work, we’ve been bombarded by flies. Put out fly bait and the aisles are almost black….high school boys will be doing a lot of aisle scraping today. Will probably be working tomorrow too.
Radgad….going to view the video later today…thanks.
Ya’ll have a blessed Saturday.
John 3:16
Symply the local rags review of Jonathan Edwards Fargone show:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140418/NEWS/304189645/0#.U1J13CWM2P8.facebook
They keep telling us the shows rock but the attendance is telling me different…..
Today’s TIP and the blogspot,
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
are the same, but the blogspot is always larger. It’s fun, and also a good drawing of Oryctolagus cuniculus.
Debbe 😉 If you work tomorrow, I suppose, in a way, you’ll be attending Sunrise Service with your “girls”. Well, as the song says, “All God’s creatures got a place in the choir.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iP27eatYxE
Good morning, Villagers
We had a wonderful wholly sung service last night for Good Friday, “The Seven Last Words of Christ, It was awesome! (and I don’t use that word loosely, dude)
No sunrise service for us, alas, but pancake breakfast at 9:45 (I will be serving, not eating!; hopefully I will have drunk my daily smoothie and done my wind sprints by then) and regular service at 11:00. Have a blessed Holy Saturday, everybody!
Standing in queue at an “Express Checkout” register of a Big Box Store, I marveled at the number of people who apparently cannot count to 20. Or 40. Or 50. When I become King of the World, that will be an offense punishable by summary execution.
I’m just kidding, of course. Public flogging should be sufficient. One lash for every item over 20 in the basket.
OK, I feel better now. 🙂
I suppose this could go down in history as the most awesome toilet flush, ever: The Water Bureau in Portland OR decided to flush and refill an open reservoir holding 38 million gallons of public drinking water after a 19-year-old was caught on camera urinating into it earlier this week. Understandable in a way, even though what the teenager did literally didn’t amount to a “drop in a bucket”. And I hope “The Urinator” will be fined the cost of the drain-and-fill operation. But can you imagine what else routinely ends up in that reservoir they don’t know about?
You think those birds and raccoon’s don’t use the Porta-Potties? 😀
At our nearby supermarket I observed the same phenomenon and asked the checkout person if they ever said anything to offending shoppers . She said they weren’t allowed to. Yet, once, when the store was busy and the Express Line Empty, I was virtuously waiting in line with my more-than-twenty-item containing cart, and had the clerk draw me out of the line into her Express Line station . And got a dirty look from the next shopper who pulled int the Express Line with less-than-20 items.
I notice now that they have redecorated they removed the Express Line, probably under the rubric of “Who Needs Trouble?.”
About that reservoir: as Grandpa in ‘Pickles’ said to his grandson, ‘And where do you think the fish go?’ 38M gallons!
Then there’s the punchline, ‘But not off the diving board!’
Do I suspect idiocy? Doesn’t the reservoir water still go through purification plants before entry into the public water supply?
Happy it’s “not just me”, Lily. 🙂 Even more irritating is to be in a check-out line…
…behind someone without a debit card.
…behind someone with a debit card they just got and don’t have a clue how to use.
…behind someone paying by check who waits the several minutes while their purchases are totaled before pulling out their checkbook and beginning to fill out the check (apparently in calligraphy).
…behind someone paying cash who decides at the last moment to give exact change and digs into the bottom of their pocket/purse to find $.97 in dimes, nickels and pennies.
“Idiocy” is indeed often to blame for many things, Mindy, but in this case the water had already been purified before being pumped into open reservoirs for distribution. Actually, the EPA now requires such water to be held in covered reservoirs, but the Portland water system is still in the process of complying.
Ghost the ones I feel sorry for are the ones who try and use a card and get turned down. For some reason this paralyses everybody, and I move to another line, cause it’s not gonna get cleared up quickly. Happened to me just this week, poor lady. The clerks look so wooden and embarrassed.
GR6: For the rare occasions when I use cash, I often carry one of those soft plastic change purses with 0.99 in it. Takes little time to count out the change, or to count out the difference and give clerk the rest. Needs refilling, but gets rid of the change I accumulate.
Rant: It’s way past time to get rid of pennies, and probably nickels. The $1 is worth about what a nickel would buy when I was a kid. I understand one Representative’s district is where the metal is mined, or some such, and his major priority is making us keep the damn things. They cost way more than 1 cent to make; he is in effect robbing the nation that he has sworn to defend/support/whatever. We are hostages. [I’m assuming it’s a ‘he’ and don’t care if he’s a Democrat or Republican.]
They work for penny-ante poler and to keep track of how many drinks I have had. Otherwise I see little use for pennies
Lily, you know a place where you can get drinks for a penny!? 🙂
emb: Exact change is fine; I use it myself quite often. I just object to folks who use up valuable moments of my life hunting for one or two pennies. (I like your system for carrying and using small change.) And yes, in a day and age where a first class postage stamp is 49 cents, I agree that pennies have outlived their usefulness and are obsolete.
One solution might be for sellers to collect exact amounts if the form of payment is electronic (debit/credit card) and to round up to the nearest 5 or 10 cents if payment is by cash. (They can’t do that you say? I seem to remember that some service stations used to charge more per gallon of gasoline if you paid with plastic instead of cash…although I doubt any still do that now, for competitive reasons.) That would drastically cut the demand for pennies, and perhaps when banks tired of storing them in their vaults, the government would rethink the minting of them.
In my own case, I get paid electronically and 90% or more of my purchases and bill paying is electronic transfer of funds. So cash is basically obsolete for me. That said, I do discreetly carry $250 in five dollar bills in my car for emergencies and/or when ATM’s and POS terminals might be down due to power outages.
Don’t play cards except for solitaire here, and have one beer [or, rarely, a glass of wine] with a meal, 3-4 x / wk, and stop at that. Last night it was a Laughing Buddha, abv 4.8, 11.16 oz., more or less comparable to a good Central European lager or pilsner.
emb, the penny is plated zinc these days. The main US zinc mine is located in TN, and belongs to the family of a certain ex-senator/VP who invented the internet. Also, all the sales taxes seem to always require pennies. Most newspaper vending machines won’t take anything but quarters. You are right, most of the smaller denomination coins are useless. They should just cut down to dimes and quarters, but forget the idea of substituting a dollar coin for the dollar bill. Better to just drop the dollar bill for the same reason as dropping pennies and nickels.
Ah, to heck with it.
emb, a beer or a glass of wine is just a good start with me.
Ghost, I go into a bar and when I finish a drink, I move a penny from my left jacket or jeans pocket to my right, no matter who buys. When I hit eight I stop. And leave. Alone. And people are always buying me drinks, I guess I look thirsty.
Well, I am :p
I try to pay with cash whenever I can. Using plastic leaves a trail for the NSA. If they want to learn about me, I want them to have to work at it! 😉
Lily, I’ve been known to attend the occasional BYO6Pk get-together with friends. I use a similar system, whereby I drop the bottle caps into my pocket. Haven’t ever ended up with eight of them in my pocket, though. Do runners metabolize alcohol faster than non-runners?
Spent a very busy day today with my daughter and then preparing several dishes for Easter Dinner tomorrow. I was exhausted as I arrived to the Easter Vigil tonight and closed my eyes in the darkness before the service began. I noticed that my phone was vibrating quite a bit, so I snuck a peek at it. I learned in an email that my 87 year old Aunt has just passed away. While I knew she had been declining, her death came as a shock.
She was the youngest and last of my Mom’s family. All I could think of during the service was my Aunt as well as both of my parents and how lonely that I felt. Needless to say, I spent much of Mass with tears in my eyes. Happy Easter, my friends.
Happy Easter and to Steve’s Aunt, RIP!
Ghost, I have had ten pennies in my right pocket many times before. Ah, well, a short life and a merry one. Who wants to get old? Not little Lily!
Aye, Lily, ye be a lassie after me own heart.
A Blessed Easter to all…..for He is Risen….
GR 😉 …I really liked that song, thanks.
Got called into work….gotta go…………………..