Monthly Archives: April 2019

These South Korean grandmothers are learning how to read! And they take the bus with the rest of the students. According to the article Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers, the birthrate in South Korea … Continue reading →

Have worries about your carbon footprint ever spoiled your fun? April 29, 2019

In response to yesterday’s post Rummuser pointed out they are having record heat in Pune. Not only that, it’s unusually humid. If you had to choose, which would you pick? Snow, or heat and humidity? April 28, 2019

Kaitlin sent me this snow prediction this morning and said she wondered if they would really get that much. So I phoned her tonight to see. She said it had been snowing all day and started accumulating this afternoon. She … Continue reading →

For me, one of the great joys of being retired is I seldom have to set the alarm. How do you feel about alarm clocks? April 26, 2018

The Washington Post had an interesting article with maps showing which areas in the U.S. are prone to flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes, extreme hot and cold, wildfires, lightning, and earthquakes and volcanoes. I couldn’t resist looking ourselves up. Our main … Continue reading →

One of the daughters of our Silver Sneakers instructor is almost old enough to start driving, and the instructor was talking about how much easier it is to learn to drive nowadays because of automatic transmission. One of the women … Continue reading →

And has been checking the water line to make sure water can get to our and Beate and Tim’s trees. Mostly it has been fixing leaky junctions, but no water was getting over to Beate and Tim’s so he followed … Continue reading →

Dycem® is a non-slip, rubber-like plastic material used to stabilize surfaces. Reusable. Cut to most any size or shape with scissors. Cleans with soap and water. When AE and Eric came they gave us some smoked salmon and a roll … Continue reading →

Andy brought these daffodils home from the land yesterday and said, It’s officially Spring! It’s hard to argue with that. 🙂 April 21, 2019