Monday, June 20, 2016
It's Not Helping
I was told that Buzz60 insisted that eating chocolate improves brain power. I'd never heard of "Buzz60" so I googled it and found that it is one of those Internet sites that is designed for the way we live now. How does it know how I live now? It describes itself as "Short, quirky video snacks that...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Breakfast Special On Father's Day
What a day for remembering the men in my life--the special, special fathers. Not a bad one in the bunch. My Grandpa Jelinek, Dad, brother, husband, Son #1, Son #2, Son #3, Son #4, Grandson Peter, and I am thinking some day, whether I'm here to see it or not, seven more grandsons of mine will...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Added Interest (Part V)
By the piece of paper method, Son found the dead tree to be more than 70 feet tall, even without a leaf canopy. The main trunk went up 30 feet even before it began to branch, and the lofty bare branches reached out for more than 60 feet in all directions. While he was measuring the circumference of...
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Friday, June 17, 2016
He Has No Clinometer
There is a tree on Son's newest property that fascinates me no end. I'm sure that everyone who has read me for any length of time knows how much I love trees.... This one is dead as a doornail and apparently has been for a long, long time. It is heads above anything else in the neighborhood even...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Piece Of Paper Method
Ninety-eight degrees with high humidity in the Midwest has a heat index of way over 100 degrees. That's what it was today and the A/C was running all day keeping me cool and comfortable. I sat in the coolness thinking of Son #3 working outside on his "jungle" property. I didn't even ask him if he...
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