Rabbit Trails

 I'm old enough to have seen record albums turn into mp3-Ipod whatever cords, in your ear, music. (One day, big speakers were cool.  Turn around, little gadgets are cool.) My mom sang to me, I heard her records and her radio.  I heard music on T.V.....HeeHaw. I remember when they made 8 track tapes....and wondered how in the world they could work.  Then they came up with cassette tapes. Little tape players.  I still have two players and I still listen to cassette tapes. Then along came cd's. How do THEY work? Then Napster! Pandora. Spotify. You Tube.  There is music everywhere.  You can hook up your computer to your phone to your car to your ear.   As a 4 year old, I remember my sister at age 6, teaching me a patriotic song. I listened to my mom's CW music. She had records, and she had a radio.   Crying Time Again.  It's Such a Pretty World Today! My dad sang.....I'...

  I almost always choose fact over fiction when it comes to reading. I have been known to read a Redwall tale or a Miss Read book, but I prefer to read true books.   I like to read about things that really happened, about real people, real feelings, real places.  If I learn something from a true book, it can be useful. How can you learn something from a fictional character? When has a unicorn ever helped you? I got these three books on Thursday. The First Mortgage A Wesley Family Book of Days New Testament KJV     Don't ask my why the title of the book on the left. The first mortgage? It is the Bible in rhyme, from Genesis to Revelation. I'm thinking I can put tunes to some of it, for my Sunday School girls. Things are easily remembered if you can sing them. Like multiplication facts. Right?    Here we have a picture of the very busy, Mrs. Wesley. I'm sure we could all learn somethi...

I used this on most of my babies. It's one of the sweetest things you will ever smell.  Nestles. You can't buy it anymore,  I wish I would have bought ten bottles, way back a long time ago,  so I could give it away,  and use it on new little heads.  Oh well.  Guess there's always Burt's Bees. 

I had a few little sprigs of cilantro growing in my gardens. I have been watching it....knowing some day it would end up in hot sauce. It's always fun picking it. It's about all I can grow that is edible. I can't coax anything else out of the ground. Except flowers.      I used to not like cilantro. It tastes like soap, if you don't like it. If you do like it, it just tastes green, and perfect.   All you need is a can of diced tomatoes.  Cilantro.  Jalapeno peppers. I salt my sauce also.  I salt everything. Some people put onions and garlic in their sauce. I don't, it causes heartburn. Funny, jalapeno peppers don't....    We can send a man to the moon, but nobody can make a good hand held can opener?  Or are they making cans tougher to open?    Pulse the ingredients. Pour into a glass jar. A glass jar you saved, then washed, and stored away for such a day as this. Whe...

So, my favorite thrift store had a bag sale. Anything you can get in a grocery bag, AND tie it, was $2.  I got this skirt.  Stuffing it in the bag, got it all wrinkled, so I ironed it.  I usually wash things before I wear them, because of cooties, but thought this would be OK. I looked at the tag, to find out how to wash it.... and this is what I found. I thought wow.  This coming from a Lithuanian?  I assumed Lithuania was a horrible place to live, but Google told me it's in the top 20 *best* places to live in the world. I'd replace the word happy, with thankful.        January socks.  I hardly ever wear socks, but when I do, they are going to be fun ones.  Our jungle like weather, which we have for most months, doesn't call for lots of sock wearing.  I don't know if I'm sad or glad. It gets in the 50's and I think I'm froze solid.     January sky.  I'm always ...