Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I hope she shows up at our jazz festival one day. I will be there if she comes here. I’ve seen many great performances in the jazz tent.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/retail-robbery-car-in-mall-vehicle-located-york-regional-police-1.6733886
Roizen, Michael F.; Linneman, Peter; Ratner, Albert. The Great Age Reboot (p. 37). Disney Book Group. Kindle Edition.
According to this author the next social disruptor will be longevity.
Snow days have been a topic for discussion in many school districts. With Covid tech advances some districts had gone to remote learning on snow days. Now many districts have gone back to calling snow days because of the psychological benefit of them, which I totally understand! 😁😁
Hoping the city's snow clearing equipment will be out full force today. The snow angels cleared my driveway last night. 😊
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Storm-Pleasant-School-Tragedy/dp/1555912753
When I was in first grade my mom sent me to school on a snow day. I got to school and.nobody was there so I turned around and walked the 3-4 blocks home. Of course I am crying when I finally get there! Mom grew up in Wisconsin and said they never had snow days. Of course she felt terrible. That was in the days when kids used to be able to walk to school. Too many weirdos out there now.
I walked or rode my bicycle to school too.
No snow days here! 🤣 We have days off for hurricanes and Mardi Gras parades!
Parades are rolling now until Fat Tuesday!
My grandpa had one of those large Cadillacs that had wings! All of those old cars were tanks! The large Olds and Buicks, oh and the Lincoln Continental cars were huge too!
It is a sad world where kids have to be driven to the bus stop 10 houses down the street from home. We have tons of kids in our neighborhood and you never see them or hear them playing. I wonder how they will grow up.
I can't imagine never riding your bike around without constant supervision. They don't have problem solving abilities because adults are always involved. What has this world come too?
When my Mom could no longer climb into the Jeep, I had to use their Oldsmobile [yes, my father's Oldsmobile].
Oh, I hated that car. Felt like I was driving a dining room table down the highway. The car was built more for someone who was 6 foot tall then for someone 5'3". Thus, the seatbelt harness could cross over my throat. The non-adjustable side view mirrors would only be helpful if the driver's seat was pull way back. Well, I needed the seat way up, so those side mirrors were worthless. Changing lanes was a major challenge.
That car would make me seasick just backing out of the driveway.
Got to a point where I hated to drive. Told my parents that. Their reply "then who is going to drive us to the doctor?" Mom refused to ride with a stranger at the wheel. No ands, ifs or buts. I kept on driving them, it helped taking xanax and Dramamine :P
When my kids were in school there was talk about just canceling buses for the day, that was a somewhat rural area with the majority of the kids living close enough to walk. That idea did not last long because all should get snow days, not just a few.
My car in 1988 was a sedan, but it had 4 wheel drive you could turn on, a ski package to hold your skis, it was advertised to be able drive up a ski slope!
Even though people kept borrowing it, they just hated my car!
Hated the leather seats.
Hated that her husband would get a speeding ticket driving it.
So funny to me now.
Our parents didn’t have car seats for babies either. How did we survive? LOL
My mini poodle always barks at other dogs, especially bigger dogs. One day, while I took her out for a walk, from the corner of my eye, I saw a dog walking out from a bush which I thought was strange, so I did a double take. Right away, I realized it was no dog, but a full grown coyote. My poodle knew it instantly, too. Instead of barking like she always did at other dogs, she clammed up, not even a whimper. We were about 15-20 feet from the coyote. Lucky for us, we were just across the street from our house, so I hurriedly picked up my little dog, briskly crossed the street, got in our front yard and closed the gate. The coyote followed us but didn't chase us. Thank goodness. After we were safely back behind the gate, the coyote walked past our house, kept going and disappeared into the bushes near the highway.
For a few months after that incident, I carried a long stick with me when I walked my dog. Just in case I ran into a coyote again.
Llama how did we survive? I remember riding in a rumble seat in an old Hudson belonging to friends. It was fun but it was not safe!
The appeal of the instant pot recipe was not having to pre-cook the beans, plus the ability to set a time and just let it do it's thing... I find the IP easy to clean too. And not having to cook stove top means I don't have to run the fan, which even on low is too %@#$ loud.