Mar25

pete got mail!

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i cannot believe

that Pete the Cat,

‘Peter,’ to the bank

is getting his own mail

 wondering how much he’s saved up

since moving in with me

also wondering

why he hasn’t mentioned 

his secret bank account.

does he also have credit cards?

 

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‘i get mail: therefore i am.’

-scott adams

Mar24

picture books.

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march is national reading month in the United States

people of all ages are encouraged to celebrate

by daily reading or listening to books

as a way to strengthen knowledge, imagination, and empathy,

and to foster a lifelong love of reading and literature.

 

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‘all really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times.’

-rosemary wells

 

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i have always loved picture books and still collect them.

do you have a favorite?

 

 

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art credit: Grégoire Mabire, watercolor ink illustration

Mar23

charades.

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staying up veeeery late

playing charades

with a small group of friends

laughing

like I have not laughed 

in a very long time

at one point

i was martha stewart 

to my friend’s snoop dog 

on their tv show

rules became ‘suggestions’

more laughing

especially when they could not 

make the leap from 

their ‘very close but not quite correct’

shout out of:

‘bug-uanahumamhau bunny’ 

as a guess 

to  solve the charade of: 

‘bugs bunny’

so close. 

but not.

 

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art credit: mark anderson, andertoons.com

 

Mar22

family farm.

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we visited the cutest family farm near our freinds’ house

sweet animals and baked goods and alpaca wearables

a little shop, and baking classes

everything created and taught and well cared for by the family

on a beautiful plot of land 

a lovey place to vist and a lovely place to live.

 

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‘farming is a profession of hope’

-brian brett, farmer and writer

Mar21

two signs.

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spent the last couple of days doing some projects

to help my community

maybe it was working

because I received not one, but two, good signs.

-author unknown

Mar20

‘a day without sunshine is like, you know, night.’-steve martin

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it’s official, the astronomical start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (vernal equinox) occurs today, March 20, at 10:46 a.m. EDT. At this moment, the sun crosses the celestial equator, providing nearly equal amounts of day and night across the globe. -Farmers’ Almanac 

Just in time,  La Croix has a SUNSHINE flavor of sparkling water. Can anyone tell me what sunshine might taste like? Here’s what La Croix has to say about it, but I’m not sure it’s really any clearer.

pastedGraphic.pngLaCroix Launches Sunshine . . . “The Deliciously Fascinating Taste of WONDER! A refreshing, guilt-free drink that captures the warmth, joy, and sparkle of a ray of sunshine. It’s bright, the essence of a sun-kissed day in every sip.”

Hmmm… still not sure what that taste might be, anyone have an idea?

 

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‘wherever you go, no matter what the weather,

always bring your own sunshine. ‘

‘anthony j. d’angelo 

 

 

 

 

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source credits: lacroixwater.com, farmer’s almanac

 

Mar19

born p.d. (pre-doritos).

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taco flavored doritos- now vintage

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yes, i know it surprised my children

 i was born before Doritos were invented

and ranch dressing became popular

and captain crunch cereal

and space bars and pop tarts

were born

and …

the 60s and 70a

were the heyday for junk food

and i was in my glory.

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what is a childhood food or snack that you still think about?

 

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‘i’m not really a football guy, i’m more of a snack guy,’

-john, age 5

 

Mar18

under the weather.

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on the farm

on the roof

in the banks

on the house

under the snow

outside of the garage door

outside on Mackinac Island

volunteer firefighters and Mackinac Marine Rescue Crew dig out the school

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i’d planned to head up north to visit family this week

but I took a look at the weather

 decided I’ll wait a week or so

some parts of the north were hit with a 100 year storm

especially in the upper peninsula 

where the yoopers are a hardy lot.

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, unseasonable weather is the result of a conflict between Titania and Oberon, queen and king of the fairies. 

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world
By their increase now knows not which is which.

– William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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photo credits- Northern Michiganders braving the storm

Mar17

life among the clover.

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‘you never know

what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.’

-Cormac McCarthy

Happy St. Patrick’s Day !

 

 

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source credit: gary larson, the far side

Mar16

in the streets.

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A world built for cars has made life much harder for grown-ups, Stephanie H. Murray wrote in 2024. https://theatln.tc/XVjVdlji
In 2009, two mothers in Bristol, England, experimented with closing part of a neighborhood road to traffic for two hours after school. “The experiment also produced some unexpected results,” Murray writes. “As children poured into the street, some ran into classmates, only just then realizing that they were neighbors … That session, and the many more it prompted, also became the means by which adult residents got to know one another.” As the experiment has expanded, “neighborhoods across the country have discovered that allowing kids to play out in the open has helped residents reclaim something they didn’t know they were missing: the ability to connect with the people living closest to them.”
Roads were once areas of community and play. “Only when cars hit the streets in larger numbers did things begin to change,” Murray writes, as “deliberate efforts within the auto industry shifted the blame for traffic deaths to children and their parents.” Streets became a place for children to cross only when cars were absent, and speed limits subsequently rose.
Play streets can now be found sporadically in urban centers. Play streets help bind communities, because adults must work together to enact the logistics of shutting the roads down. But it could also have something to do with the way children’s play alters the feel of the street, giving adults permission to engage in the sort of socializing “we’ve otherwise policed out,” one expert told Murray; kids function, he pointed out, as a sort of “connective tissue for adults.”
“Children’s tendency to violate social boundaries—to stare a little too long, ask someone an overly forward question, or wander into someone else’s yard—can nudge adults to reach across those boundaries too,” Murray continues at the link in our bio. “It probably isn’t a coincidence that playgrounds are one of the few places in America where striking up a conversation with a stranger is considered socially acceptable … By siloing play there, we may have inadvertently undercut children’s capacity to bind us to one another.”
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:Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Giuseppe Ramos / Getty