cheerfulmonk.com

I burst out laughing when I read this quote yesterday:

Every man thinks every woman’s dream is to find the perfect man. Please…. Every woman’s dream is to eat without gaining weight!

I’ll go along with that!

April 26, 2024

mymodernmet.com

I was reminded of the over or under controversy the other day in our Natural Grocers store. They had their produce bags inserted both ways.

over

under

The ones inserted over worked fine. The ones inserted under wouldn’t budge. So maybe it doesn’t matter with toilet paper, but sometimes it makes a big difference.

April 25, 2024

April 24, 2024

Thanks Cheryl for telling me about this.

April 23, 2024

It’s sad to see that tree dying and amputated.

But I’ve been enjoying watching the pine tree outside my bedroom window grow.

April 18, 2016

May 1, 2016

March 15, 2024

April 21, 2024

Notice how late the snows were in 2016. Spring has always been wild here.

April 22, 2024

This poor old tree has been dying for a while, but I still loved it.

They cut some of the dead parts off Wednesday,

And this is what it looks like now:

How sad is that?

April 21, 2024

Things don’t change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau

Even Duo knows better than that.

After I read that quote by Thoreau I was amused to read this in Duolingo,

Normalmente, las personas y los lugares cambian con el tiempo. Nada permanece igual.

Translation:

Normally, people and places change over time. Nothing stays the same.

Isn’t that the truth! And the changes seem to be coming faster and faster.

April 20, 2024

melted my heart and brought tears to my eyes. The author is writing about a children’s cartoon series that may end because the creator is afraid he can’t keep the quality up.

On top of the sleepless nights, the endless hours to fill, and, yes, all that joy, raising a kid is one long experience of loss. We lose the 1-year-old with his arms outstretched to be picked up, the 4-year-old bravely marching to his first day of preschool, the 6-year-old who just wants to snuggle on the couch and watch Bluey.

They’re replaced by new people we can’t wait to meet, but the ones they were, the ones we knew and loved, they’re gone forever.

Maybe that’s why I love Bluey so much — so much I almost hope it ends now, at its zenith. Watching it is a time capsule for a moment I would hold onto with all my strength, even as I know I can’t. I suspect Brumm knows that too.
—Brian Walsh, Everything Ends, Even Bluey

Wow. Just wow.

April 19, 2024

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
—Archimedes

So, having solved the problem of the backup camera cover, Andy decided to check that he could turn the lug nuts on a tire if he ever need to change it. He first tried this wrench,

but he wasn’t strong enough to move the lug nut. So he added this long piece of pipe for leverage,

and it worked fine. Hurray for tools, and for Andy checking it out now, just in case.

April 18, 2024

Amazon.com

This is an Amazon photo about one of the two new camera covers we bought. We don’t care whether or not it gives the Jeep more personality, but the picture does show how the camera, mounted on the back of the car, protrudes from the hole in the spare tire wheel.

Here’s a picture of the camera on our Jeep without a cover:

The two covers looked very similar, and one of them had an alan wrench with the T-40 Torx bit we need.

Unlocked:

Locked:

I installed one of them:

And put the other one and the alan wrench in the glove compartment.

Then to show what the camera shows in the daylight, I asked Andy to come down, put the Jeep in reverse (with his foot on the brake), and take a video of the screen with my iPhone. I tried to make a YouTube video of it, but it was short and YouTube made it repeat in an endless loop. So here are two frames:

Every time we turn around there are new things we don’t understand. It keeps our little grey cells and our sense of humor working.

April 17, 2024