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Click on the picture and turn on the sound.

September 13, 2025

Click on the picture to see what happens.

How incredibly sweet and loving.

September 12, 2025

Pearls Before Swine

He didn’t react blindly. He did think about it. 🙂

September 11, 2025

Andy brought this home from the store Monday:

We haven’t had trick-or-treaters in years, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate Halloween.

I don’t have a sweet tooth so don’t eat much candy, but I’m still enough of a little kid to enjoy seeing the displays in the stores.

September 10, 2025

Good for this pup! He’s an inspiration.

Also,

Yay, Jean!

I’ve been dealing with a lot of technical problems with websites, cell phone providers, etc. this past month and have managed to stay calm, cheerful, and focused. I’m chuffed about that and want to continue operating that way.

Mark Twain wrote,

Noise proves nothing — often a hen who has merely laid an egg, cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

It sounds as if he thought that hen celebrating her little successes was a bad thing. I don’t. I think it’s a healthy way to keep ourselves motivated.

I say, “Yay us!” What about you?

September 9, 2025

The celery plant still isn’t putting out roots, but it is getting taller and bushier.

August 25, 2025

September 5, 2025

I can’t tell if it will rot before it puts out roots.

If it does I will try again.

September 8, 2025

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September 6, 2025

No complaints about rain here. We love the moisture — we’re still experiencing extreme drought.

But when the sun comes out it is nice to take a walk.

Moderately Confused

What about you?

September 7, 2025

Here are pictures of Andy changing a light bulb last March.

Needless to say, I didn’t feel comfortable about him doing it. I think he changed one more since then, but Wednesday night when one bulb went out in our kitchen, even he decided we should get help. We had some possible helpers lined up, but he went over the manager’s office and asked if we could pay someone to do it for us. The woman said no problem, no charge, she would send someone right over.

Sure enough two guys came over, and one was very tall. I gave him the new light bulb and said we had a ladder. He said he didn’t need one, and proceeded to take the cover off and change the bulb. The other bulb was dimmer than the new one and he asked if I wanted that one changed too. Yes please! So he changed it, replaced the cover, and they left.

How easy was that?! We’ve lived in this apartment for about 50 years now — it’s not fancy but we love it. And we’re grateful that so far we can get the help we need to continue living here.

Andy is still laughing that the fellow didn’t even need a ladder. He said, “That puts me in my place.”

September 6, 2025

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A fellow came into a restaurant with an ostrich and they sat down. The waitress took his order and the ostrich said he would have the same thing. When it came time to pay the fellow added 20% for the tip and pulled the exact amount out of his pocket.

The same thing happened the following night, and for the next few days. The ostrich always ordered exactly what the fellow did. Finally the waitress asked him how he always managed to have the exact amount of money in his pocket even though he had been ordering different things. The fellow explained that a genie had granted him a wish and he didn’t want to be bothered with a lot of money or things, so he asked that he would always have the right amount to pay any bill.

The waitress was impressed by his wise choice, then asked about the ostrich. The fellow looked a bit embarrassed and said the genie had given him another wish. He had asked for “a tall chick with long legs who always agreed with him.” He added, “I should have been more specific.”

September 5, 2025

Ben

September 4, 2025