Month: March 2023
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A Tupperware Tidbit
Reading Time: < 1 minute Note: I got this information from a Facebook site and thought you’d enjoy this blast from the past. Did you know an amateur inventor and designer named Earl Silas Tupper first invented Tupperware around 1942. Then in the early 1950s, Brownie Wise, a middle-aged housewife and impoverished single mother living… Read more
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Anniversaries and Other Dates
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the problems with retirement and aging is that time kind of all runs together. As the years roll by, memories start fraying. I don’t have any problem remembering spectacularly momentous things, but Lordy, I have a problem remembering when things happen. I’m not talking about minor things here. I’m… Read more
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We Are Family…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A few years ago, just before covid struck and created havoc with people’s lives, we were planning a reunion of sorts with most of Randy’s brothers and sisters. The plan was to rent an Air BnB near Williamstown, KY and tour the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum together. We all… Read more
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If Money Were No Object
Reading Time: 4 minutes As I was contemplating subject matter for this week’s post, nothing inspired me. Absolutely nothing. So, here it is, Tuesday morning, 7:38 am, and though I mostly wrote a post yesterday on minimalism, it was (as I mentioned) completely uninspiring. It had no purpose and would be an effort of which… Read more
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Snow? Ah….NO!
Reading Time: < 1 minute I saw a picture on Facebook the other day of the snow that’s falling in the mountains of California. I thought it would make a good post, but couldn’t find that particular photo again. But I did find this one. Oh Lord, the news article said that more than 400… Read more
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A Perfect Day. Without the Beach.
Reading Time: 4 minutes andy’s sister Kristine and her terrific husband Gary are visiting from North Carolina. We love when they’re here because they enjoy exploring and doing things that we haven’t yet done in Southwest Florida. Their two week-long visit includes enough quiet time and enough adventure to make the two weeks fly by… Read more
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Split Personality??
Reading Time: 2 minutes On December 31, 1899, Captain John Phillips was navigating the passenger-cargo ship SS Warrimoo when his crew informed him that they were approaching the equator. Captain Phillips had his navigator double check their position, and then adjusted the course and speed of the Warrimoo so that at exactly 12 a.m., the… Read more
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My Old Man
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was younger, some of my peers called their fathers their “old man.” As in, my old man won’t let me go out Saturday night if the party includes both boys and girls. As some of those girls grew into datable chicks who liked to date tough boys, those tough… Read more
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New Author, Fun Book Series
Reading Time: 2 minutes I recently discovered an author I’d never heard of before. I ran across a book called While We Were Watching Downton Abbey at a used book store. It was a such a fun read I decided to research the author. To my surprise I found that she’s written more than 10… Read more