I spotted one cardinal fledgling this morning. Have been seeing a pair for the past three or four weeks - annual visitors for the past few years. Well, I really haven't the faintest idea if it's the same pair. This year the male has been extremely flamboyant and active.

When visiting Rebecca's family in February, Hallie "made" me (which I am so GLAD she did!) watch a BBC television show called "The Simple Life". We watched two episodes and I really enjoyed them. Upon returning home, I checked into our local library to see if they had it on their shelves. Sadly, they do not, though I haven't looked into borrowing from another library, nor have I let them know that if they got them for the library, I would certainly check them out. They take suggestions all the time, apparently, so I need to simply turn in the form!

With all of the recent posting of retro catalogs and other novel items from the 1970's, The Usborn Book of the Future really jumped out at me when it showed up on my newsfeeds late last month. First published in 1979, this book offered "A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars."

I’ve debated since this afternoon about the addressees for an email I want to write, and have finally decided to make this a blog entry, instead. I will be asking Micah, Mandy, and Daisy to read it, but I’d like my sisters to read it, too – and Sheri, because it might be particularly relevant to her at some point. Then I realized Tiff might find some value in it because of her brother. And Beth has expressed wanting to learn about health in the family, to help protect her children.

Every Four Years, It’s Embarrassing to Live in Florida

Honestly, I don’t know what’s wrong with this state. Or maybe it isn’t just Florida – maybe it’s just Florida issues that I read about in the Orlando Sentinel. But, if I remember correctly, the whole “chad” business was reported nationally in 2004, when it held up Bush from assuming the victory in the Presidential Elections that year.

By an interesting coincidence, this morning's SF Chronicle had an article on research done by Doty Horn of Benjamin Moore paint company on the most popular colors of the last four decades. I laughed when I saw all the browns that were popular in the 1970s but then a few minutes later I was at my computer browsing the catalog pages that Jenni loaded into her gallery. When I saw that lovely all beige outfit with the blouse with the bow, I decided I wanted to share the article on the most popular colors with you.

While rearranging basement storage spaces for Christmas decorations, I decided to finally pull out a stack of magazines that have been on a back corner shelf for many years. I knew that I had saved September issues of Seventeen Magazine ever since Sheri was born. Well that is up until 2000. Short story here: I took all of them to the high school for a memory display during the 2000 OHS Alumni Reunion. Before I got back to reclaim them, someone had thrown them all away! I've been very sad about that ever since. Bygones be bygones.

The serendipity continues!

December 28, 2007

Luanne and Jenni seemed somewhat taken aback when I said in Chat on Sunday night that Allen and I would be cooking two turkeys for Thanksgiving. This is at least the third year that we've done so. Here's why. Turkeys have sold for 59 cents a pound for the last three years. We put the first one in the electric roaster about 11:00 on Wednesday night at 300 degrees. Allen got up about 5:00 Thursday morning; a thermometer showed that the meat needed to cook a little while longer and get about 10 degrees hotter.