Loose Leaf Notes

1. The more I don’t go anywhere, the more I buy clothes at the thrift shop that I have nowhere to wear them to. The more clothes I acquire, the more I wear the same thing (house clothes) everyday.

2. Joe and I walked through the Blue Ridge Parkway bush on Saturday to check out our favorite abandoned apple orchard. The apples are abundant but we worried about ticks the whole time.   I had just ordered and received some tick repellent to spray on shoes and clothes but couldn’t bring myself to deal with it (toxic) yet.  “It reminds me of how I carried reusable shopping bags in my car for years before I got in the habit of using them,” I said to Joe.

3. Hot date: tick checks.

4. Facebook comment on my status update titled In My world a BF is a Butterfly:  If BF means butterfly then LOL means lots of love!

5. I haven’t been this excited about a singer/songwriter since I first heard Jack Johnson.  I heard a review of her album on Fresh Air and immediately said, “That’s music I’d pay for.”  Listen to Courtney Burnette sing Dead Fox HERE. 

6. Political campaigns are like soap operas that you don’t have to watch everyday to keep up with.  I didn’t feel the need to subject myself to the Republican presidential candidate debates, so I checked out reviews after the fact, like Watch the Republican Debate in Less Than 3 Minutes and 8 Takeaways from the Republican Debate.  Between those and the nightly news reports, I probably know more than I want to.

7. Some dictionary definitions of “trump” – Any playing card of another suit.  To take a trick with a trump.  Trump up: to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation.

8. THIS little boy’s mission made me smile and cry at the same time and made think about how I like to keep at least one toy in my pocketbook because it makes me feel more prepared.

9. That video was followed by another Steve Hartman On the Road tearjerker that made me choke up even more. Watch how THIS little boy found a $20 bill and paid it forward.

10. Posted by a friend on Facebook: I can’t help it.  I’m an ocean in a paper cup.

11. “If someone has a view that human beings are only motivated by money then they’re going to have a pretty blinkered view of how humans behave and also a fairly sad life, in my view.”  – Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales on NPR’s Why We Collaborate. 

12. Liam (4): When I have a job I’m going to keep people safe and protect them.  I’m going to work the day shift.

13. And this is the way we roll.

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