We didn’t see the first Happy Feet movie, so maybe it was just as strange. The second one should be rated “W for weird”. Seriously. The guys who conceived and executed this extravaganza had to have been extremely high and/or under the strong influence of illegal pharmaceuticals when they joined all the disparate parts and [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Happy Feet 2, my own review. R-rated
Posted in "Growing up", Children, Ethics, Family, Pets/ Animals on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Keyhole Garden
Posted in Creativity, Education, Gardening, Going Green, Outdoors, Ranching/Farming/Rural Concerns, Weather on December 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A few years ago, Deb Tolman, Ph.D. (Dr. Deb) arrived in our area. She began sharing her approach to sustainable landscaping, living, education and building practices. Dr. Deb leads a garden club that charges no dues, hosts field trips to places of interest, offers workshops for great projects, helps keep alive a farmer’s market, and [...]
The Real Story
Posted in "Growing up", Children, cooking/food, Holidays, Just Life (or "Idiot File for the Unknown", Outdoors, Pets/ Animals, Ranching/Farming/Rural Concerns on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remember those awful Holiday Bragging Letters people sent out via snail mail before the New Year began? This was before we were all so well connected with email, the Internet, free long-distance, cell phones, Skype, and social networks. Sometimes a perfect family picture accompanied the letter. The text itself chronicled the triumphs and celebrations of [...]
Personal Quest for the Best
Posted in Education, Fashion, Health, Just Life (or "Idiot File for the Unknown", Shopping on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Have you noticed supermarkets making more room for store brands and pushing old favorites into smaller spaces? Some have disappeared altogether. I went searching for Q-tips. The small area allotted was empty, but there were loads of the store brand. If you‘ve ever had a little piece of cotton stick in your ear from an [...]
Stop Discontinuing My Stuff !!!
Posted in "Growing up", Shopping, vintage on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In an earlier column, Zack declared he was old because he drops food on his shirt. A cousin told me she’s old because she received her Medicare card in the mail. I recognize some signs that I’m getting up there, of a certain age, long in the tooth, older than dirt. Things take longer to [...]
Customer Service is Dead
Posted in Just Life (or "Idiot File for the Unknown", Kvetching and Whining, Outdoors, Ranching/Farming/Rural Concerns, Technology, The Economy on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Customer Service is Dead We’ve all been disappointed and frustrated for years now by the misnomer “customer service”. Once upon a time, in a land, far, far away from our present reality, a regular person could place a phone call to any reputable company, reach and converse with another regular person in customer service and [...]
When it Rains, it Pours
Posted in "Growing up", Health, Kvetching and Whining on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Whine, whine, whine. I’ve been a minor mess lately. Perhaps my age is catching up with me. Zack has this rule that when we’re with other people we are NOT allowed to discuss our ailments. So I hate to be one of those folks who says, “I was fine until I hit age ____, and [...]
Children and Other People, Not Mine
Posted in "Growing up", Children, Ethics, Kvetching and Whining on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Other people I’m not a curmudgeonly W.C. Fields, but I’m not a “baby person” either. Frankly, I suspect I’m not much of a people person. Most of my pursuits are more solitary. I’m not that woman who can’t wait to hold your baby and play with it, talk to it, coo over it. Does this [...]
Deer Season Day
Posted in "Growing up", cooking/food, Hunting, Outdoors, Pets/ Animals, Ranching/Farming/Rural Concerns on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We hung a string of shotgun shell holiday lights in Zack’s shop last week on the first day of hunting season. We declared it Deer Season Day. I made this up. It’s sort of like Festivus, a holiday for the restofus (of Seinfeld fame). Zack bagged his buck today. Our friend, we’ll call him [...]
