Loose Leaf Notes

1. I’ve just now started watching Mad Men, the award winning series about an ad agency in 1960.  It’s appealing in a period piece way, the way Downton Abby is to so many.   While watching recently, I thought to myself, oh, so that’s what Bewitched’s Darren was doing when Samanatha was home being a housewife.

2. I saw the idea for the above hornet-nest-looking paper bag stuffed with plastic shopping bags on Facebook.  It’s supposed to fool bees and hornets into thinking it’s a hornet’s nest so they won’t take up residence on your porch.  So far, I can report that it works!

3. Sometimes you can’t build a better mousetrap. The one year I didn’t use a scarecrow, the crows pulled up all my corn starts, and the fake owl we sometimes put on the window sill really does keep the birds from smashing into their reflections in our windows.

4. I’ve never played the Lottery or game of Frisbee.

5. It was like seeing my face on a billboard when I first saw the cover of THIS book.

6. THIS story of a woman named Airwrecka Mcbride has recently been all over internet and has caused people everywhere to say: I’ve been spelling Erika wrong my whole life.

7. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much is a video clip worth, like THIS one from the post in which Bryce and Liam help Joe build a chicken coop floor and learn the meaning of the word pro?

8. From what I recall about the early ‘60s, movies were flicks, fun times were a blast and tattle tales were called finks.  We played paper dolls and worried about cooties, danced the jerk and set our hair in spoolies.  We wore baby doll pajamas, clam diggers, kilt skirts held shut with big pins and said things like “Go jump in a lake.”  Hairdos were called the bubble, the flip and the shag.  Neat was good before cool and the Beatles were better than any boy band today.

9. “All you need is love” turned into “Don’t believe the hype” about the same time that the greeting “What’s happening?” changed to “What’s up?” which later became “What up?” then “Wassup?” and “Sup?”

10. Apparently David Bowie paper dolls is all the rage. See HERE.

11. In our small town of Floyd most people wave when you pass them on the road, but the kind of waving while driving pictured above is disturbing.

12.  “The problem isn’t that Bernie Sanders is a crazy-pants cuckoo bird, it’s that we’ve all become so accustomed to stage-managed, focus-driven candidates that authenticity comes across as lunacy.” Jon Stewart

13. Hey, how come they don’t make shoes like that for grown-ups?

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