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This makes me smile too

I came across this the other day and I think it's kind of cute especially for grammar experts.

 

And What Did Your Parents Have in Their House?

This is a fun article about what our parents had that we probably don't have in our homes today. Actually, I still have some of these things and for sure my parents had many of them. Even more to the point, this seems to be more about my age group than my own parents. So, it's geared more to my own grown kids. Fun anyway. Here are a few of those things.

My yes answers: Popcorn popper, answering machine, hand mixer, VCR, printer, linoleum floors, paper calendars, china cabinet, candy dish. record player (just got a new one), fondue set, phone book, photo album, cookie jar, bread basket, jello mold, glass milk bottle, shaded lamp, tea kettle, ash tray, rotary phone, barcolounger, answering machine.

My never had answers: shag carpet, plastic wrap over furniture, grandfather clock, boom box, sewing machine, croquet set, water bed, jewelry box, fax machine, flowered wallpaper, porcelain dolls, hand cranked ice cream machine, chafing dish, canopy bed, needlepoint, potpourri, hat rack.

 

What a great idea

Bob Wachter on Twitter put this up today and I think I speak for many wives that this is perfect. Click to enlarge. It seems the guy has grocery shopped and brought home the wrong thing so many times that his wife took a picture of what he needed to get along with an explanation.

I'm going to do this the next time I'm brave enough to let Dale go to the store.

One of the comments "Wife says to her husband, "Go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, buy a dozen." Husband returns with 12 loaves of bread."

Last Man Standing

For the past year we have gotten into the habit of watching the Last Man Standing TV show which features Tim Allen. For some reason this program was not on our radar before the Covid shutdown, but we have found this to be one of the funnier series on television. The series is on CMT and tonight for instance, there are 8 if them in a row beginning at 3 in the afternoon. We normally watch the ones at 6 and 6:30.

We find the programs laugh out loud funny which is something we don't come across very often. Tim Allen was best known as Tim the Tool Man Taylor back in the old days, but his character on Last Man Standing is just as good as are those who play his family members.

Certainly this is much better than all the cable news and current sitcoms are just weird.

For love of a dog

We laughed at this because it rings so true. Thankfully when we had a dog, we did not need to do this.

Kids are fun

There is a house sort of behind us with several kids. 3 boys as far as I have been able to tell and two girls. They made my day today.

We had put out two of our Christmas village animals yesterday for Halloween. I stuck candy in them and let the trick or treaters take what they wanted. These particular kids weren't around last night so when I saw them circling in front of our house today I asked if they wanted to take the rest of the candy on the animals. They sure did! They had a lot of fun with this and then headed home. After a while they came back and gave me a thank you note they'd just created. Nice kids, very polite and the kind who laugh easily.

Nicely done and I got a kick out of the: "have a good November"

As this was going on all of a sudden honking broke out on Vandalia (159) one of the main north south roads through Collinsville. It turned out to be a Trump Parade and we stood and watched kind of transfixed. All kinds of decorated trucks and cars and honking and honking drove through for quite a while.

Two unexpected things in one half hour.

Maryland flags and crabs

You really should be reading Haley's blog. She's in Maryland via St. Louis and her posts describing her eating and tourist experiences in Baltimore are a great read. The most recent describes her visit to the Mary Pickersgill house, the woman who sewed the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the National Anthem.

Plus, her first experience eating oysters and crabs. All good, fun, writing.

Truth

I came across this today and it is so true. I had to laugh because I am always changing the way Dale puts dishes in the dishwasher.

"I'm writing a love poem called: "Put the dishes in the dishwasher, but not like that."

Looking for a day trip

You might want to consider heading east on 70 to the small town of Casey, Illinois, a few miles from the Indiana border. We stopped there a year ago when we took our grandsons out to DC and it was the most fun road stop ever. Now the Chicago Tribune travel writers have discovered this town which markets itself as having the "Worlds Biggest everything". And it's true.

The biggest things include: a mailbox you can actually climb into, the world’s largest pitchfork, world’s largest golf tee, world’s largest wooden shoes, world’s largest rocking chair, wind chime, pencil, and more.  Tomorrow officials from the Guinness Book of World Records will be in Casey to certify the world’s largest key, golf club, gavel, twizzle spoon, teeter-totter and barbershop pole.

Our boys got a real kick out of this town and really liked the old time candy store.

 

I can bearly take it

This news video from ABC in Chicago is the best thing I saw yesterday. Pure joy as a young boy at the zoo gets a big brown bear to jump up and down with him.