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Hurray for silliness!

March 1, 2025

Sara Zimmerman, Unearthed Comics

February 28, 2025

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February 27, 2023

This is from the Reader’s Digest:

Because I catch a predawn bus to get to my job, I was concerned that I wasn’t visible to bus drivers in the darkness. So I attached a reflector to my lunchbox and put on a jogger’s vest that was bright orange and had small flashing lights.

The first morning I wore my new gear, the bus zoomed past but then stopped. I ran to catch up with it and as I boarded, asked the driver, “Didn’t you see me?”

“I saw you,” he replied, “but I thought you were a road sign.”
–Pulpit Supply

February 26, 2025

What’s the difference between America and Canada? The Americans have really nice neighbors.
—Bored Panda

I laughed when I read it, but I’m sad that there’s so much truth in it.

February 25, 2025

behind that pile of new firewood.

That wood was bought downtown at our supermarket. A lot of the pieces were too large for the wood stove, so Andy had to do some chopping, but not nearly as much as he had with the old firewood. That is stored on the porch in winter and gets moved away from the house during fire season. (The pile is a lot smaller now.)

October 16, 2016

Now it’s so old and rotten that it’s great for kindling, but not for a roaring fire. Why? Because we had installed solar heating panels on the roof, and they provided radiant heating for the floors as long as we had enough sunshine. We seldom needed a fire.

It worked great until Andy forgot to close the attic window before a big freeze. That’s not good when there’s water in the system. Our trusty plumber had had to retire for health reasons and for the past couple of years our contractor has been too busy down here to want to go up to the land. So the trusty old wood stove it is.

Life goes on.

February 24, 2025

It was actually printed on a standard sheet of paper, but I put it by his present.

He laughed when he saw it. He looked carefully at the picture and said,

They still let me play with matches. That’s good.

February 23, 2025

When Andy was 84 he said he thought he would probably be able to go up to the land for another five years. He has done it for six.

“Made weak by time and fate”, but still hanging in there.

February 22, 2025

This post by Ginny reminds me of this Bored Panda picture:

February 21, 2025

Kaitlin and Torben flew in and stayed up on the land from Saturday morning to Tuesday afternoon. Andy and I went up every day and we had a good time hanging out together.

It was cold, but cozy inside with a warm fire. Andy had made sure we had a good supply of wood.

The woodpile Saturday:

We burned a lot of it. The woodpile Tuesday:

More great family memories.

February 20, 2025