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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I’d be unconscious or totally irresponsible after 3 or 4. I know at least some of my limitations.
‘Better to just drop the dollar bill for the same reason as dropping pennies and nickels.’
Assuming we eliminate pennies and nickels, I should carry $4.90 in that change purse: 16 quarters and 9 dimes? Europeans, Brits, and Canadians [at last] have adapted to coins worth roughly $1. Americans just possibly could do so also.
I’d heard a different name associated with preserving pennies, I think a member of the House. And there’s somebody still at it. The issue, both in particular and in general, transcends parties. Ran into a non-partisan rant the other day. If I find it, I may post it.
According to one source, production and distribution costs to the government are 2.4 cents for each penny and 10.08 cents for each nickel. It’s tempting to say, “Yep, Federal government economics at its finest.” But I think the main barrier to eliminating the one-cent piece is plain old nostalgia on the part of a large segment of the American public. People in general just hate to give up old familiar things…economics be damned.
The British gave up the old pence – shilling style currancey for a decimal based system. I remember learning that system while living in Cheshire, though I never truly mastered it. The UK survived that one with their typical stiff upper lip.
Two biggest downsides to eliminating the penny, IMHO; less coins for the change jar, and resetting all the gas pumps to round off to the nearest nickel. Adjusting all the pumps could be a mini Y2K problem.
Glorious Easter to all!
To TruckerRon, I would rather leave a clear plastic trail than allow some “forensic expert” to develop a trail that fits a prosecutors believed case.
Debbe 😉 I’m sorry you had to work today, but I trust you had a blessed one anyway. Here’s another one for you…the Celtic Simon & Garfunkel? I like the string section, of course. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNHKvtjoj8
And I hope everyone else has had and will have a blessed day. Now, if you will excuse me, I’ll be serving my Mom the Easter lunch I’ve prepared for her. Heaven knows she’s fixed me a few of them. 🙂
And a blessed Easter to everyone. We had a lovely service today, with a whole new (big!) family baptized into the church.
emb, four just gets me buzzed.
No Easter services for me. However, I did attend a very nice community Seder last Tuesday.
Hope you all enjoyed yourselves,, Sideburns. We had a Seder-type dinner Saturday night for my Sunday School Class. We had a roasted rack of lamb, lamb shanks not being available closer than Dallas. Mazel tov!
Did you serve it with matzoh, horseradish and charoset? How about macaroons and sponge cake for desert?
Debbe 😉 Another tune I suspect you may like. Technically, the video has a “nude scene” in it, but, as they say in Hollywood, it’s tastefully done. Perhaps it won’t get me in Dutch with any of our villagers of the female persuasion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM
And I hope the expression “in Dutch” is not politically incorrect in the Netherlands, since although I don’t know for sure, we may have a villager or two from there, as we seem to have some from most everywhere. Which is a good thing.
Almost time to watch “Cosmos” on the not-quite-so-much-as-usual-idiot-box.
Sideburns: oh, yes, We have a Jew married to a Gentile working with us on the menu, W ehave been doing it wifor four years now. Especially the four cups of wine!
A quick story for you. Early this morning at work, I suddenly realized I wouldn’t be getting my hollow chocolate bunny from mom this year. Knowing it wouldn’t end well if I continued to dwell on this fact, I pushed the thought out my head and got on with my day. I was just getting ready to leave for the day, when a customer came in and gave my employee an adult-themed pack of “Easter candies.” My employee and I got baffled giggles at the unexpected (and admittedly inappropriate) candy, and both of us failed to notice the customer and her friends cracking up in the parking lot. She came back in and presented my clerk with a package of mini Cadberry eggs, and me – with a hollow chocolate bunny. She wished us a happy Easter and walked back out to her friends and drove away. I *did* manage a stunned thank you, but didn’t catch a name, because what the odds a random stranger walks up and hands you exactly what you were missing?
Mindy from Indy, sounds like your Mom got your present to you, even though she was elsewhere. And a good laugh too! Happy Easter everyone.
Good morning Villagers…..
Indy Mindy, I’m with Mark….it sounds like your Mom did get you your hollowed out chocolate Easter bunny….one never knows.
Awww…GR 😉 the last link brought back such…memories. Thanks….but, who are those Celtic singers….they did an excellent job on “Sounds of Silence”….bookmarked that one.
Well, it’s back to work today….heh, wait, I just left that place. 🙂
My husband fixed spaghetti for Easter, with garlic French bread…..yum.
My brother-in-law has left to go home and start repairing his winter damaged home. My one nephew went back to his ex-wife of 4 months. But I still have Andrew, my other nephew. He works at the poultry houses with us. I worry about him…he is a very depressed young man. In less than a year, he lost his mother to cancer, his half-sister died (at 45) of a heart attack, and his fiance broke up with him…..I told him last weekend, as I pointed to his little daughter Brooklyn, that she was his reason for living. I’m glad he is staying here with us.
later….heh, I haven’t seen the word ‘pokies’ mentioned lately….slipping there GR 🙂
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Debbe…it’s been too warm lately! 🙂
A slightly belated but sincere Happy Easter to everyone! Indy Mindy, moms do indeed work in strange ways sometimes.
We had Easter lasagna and garlic bread for supper.
And we had tacos for our Easter dinner! Doesn’t matter what we have, as long as we are thankful from whence it came and enjoy the fellowship. Happy belated Easter!
We had deviled eggs, ham, and baked sweet potatoes. And my choir sang well! And the Mormon Tabernacle Choir did the entire Handel’s Messiah and put it online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHi4YXC0r1s#t=50
BTW, the first 40 seconds of that is background noise with the artwork… then the video really starts as the soloists enter.
We, too had ham: two ways, baked and fried with redeye gravy. Ditto on the devilled eggs. But since nobody here likes sweetpotatoes, we had potatoes Anna and asparagus vinaigrette.
Indy Mindy, I do believe in angels. “”The angels keep their ancient places,” wrote Francis Thompson…”Turn but a stone, and start a wing.” http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20091223-Paul-Crume-Angels-among-us-1234.ece
We had ham with pineapple sauce, hash brown potatoes with shallots, mushroom and white Cheddar cheese, stir fry asparagus and lemon cake for dessert. Took advantage of the gorgeous day and took a walk around the neighborhood.
It was a pretty day, here, too. I had got my wind sprints out of the way, early, so I played with the dogs after lunch and worked off the calories. I don’t thiink my tummy is pooching out today. I still have my “bikini bridge” 😛
I like the idea of having angels all around us (Angels, you know, are messengers of the Lord.) but I’d worry, if I were you, if you found one weeping. Just don’t blink.
I am convinced that one saved my life. I don’t think he is weeping
Debbe 😉 That’s the thing about pokies…they can pop up when you least expect them. 🙂
“Bikini bridge”, eh, Lily. 😉 Oh, and when you feel an urge to drop some pennies in your pocket, what is your adult beverage of choice?