“It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise”
Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
TIME: 8:52 PM
PLACE: Front porch
SUBJECT: Phyllophaga or June bug
I can never remember seeing these bugs in March. I guess it’s because of the extremely warm weather we’ve been having. It’s been feeling more like late May/early June around here than late March. Hence, the early arrival of the June bugs.
Q. What does the Easter Rabbit get for making a basket?
A. Two points just like everybody else!
A really bad joke
TIME: 10:41 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Schieich rabbit figure & basket
The Schleich animal figures are a favorite around here and if I happen to come across one in my thrifting/yard sale/estate sale browsing, they come home with me. I found this rabbit at a thrift store along with this tiny basket. I believe the duo set me back a whole quarter. This bunny looks like a rabbit we use to own many years ago by the name of Peter Rabbit. DramaQueen named him herself.
“The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.“
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 8, "Proverbs of Hell," (1790-1793).
TIME: 10:40 AM
PLACE: Our street
SUBJECT: Fire hydrant
A blue notice was hanging on our front door knob yesterday afternoon. It was from the water company telling us that we would be without water service from 9am until 1am today while they were making some repairs/improvements in our neighborhood. This morning, they opened the fire hydrant by our house to reduce the water pressure while they were making repairs down a side street. Now we are under a boil order until Saturday morning at 4am. Great.
“Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.”
Loretta Young (American Actress, 1913-2000)
TIME: 9:14 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: MAC eye-shadow
I indulged myself by purchasing an eye-shadow from the MAC counter at Macy’s today. The color is named “Girlie” I like it because it is a neutral color. I like neutral colors because I can wear the same color all over my lids without worrying about blending. I am a lazy make-up-putter-oner.
“Dear night-lights, protect my sleeping babes. Burn clear and steadfast tonight.”
Wendy Darling, Hook, Steven Spielberg dir., Amblin Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, 1991.
TIME: 10:41 PM
PLACE: Front yard
SUBJECT: Solar yard light
I ran this evening. 5 minutes of running, followed by 3 minutes of walking x 3. According to my phone, I went 2.11 miles in 27:13 minutes with an average speed of 4.66 mph. That made a pace of 12:52 minutes/mile and I burned 260 calories. Yay me.
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Tonight, I decided to try some quick experimenting with some night-time photography. I like the patterns that our solar lights produce around the flowerbeds.
“... a key, a very large key, that opens something some useful door somewhere up there.”
Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Riding the Elevator into the Sky."
TIME: 9:09 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Church key/bottle opener
Why is it called a “church-key”? From what I’ve googled, it’s either because when monks were brewers they carried large keys to open the cellars where the ale was made – these keys were known as “church-keys”; or it’s because the rounded shape of other openers (the kind that pry off the bottle caps) looked like the handles of big door keys, especially the ones that opened large church doors. Okaaaay. I, however, associate this tool with punching holes – one in each side! - of a can of Hawaiian Punch. Who else remembers when Hawaiian Punch came in a 46 oz. can? If you do, you are old like me. I still use a church-key when I make spaghetti sauce. Force of habit has me punching my large cans of tomato juice instead of using a can opener.
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.“
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 60, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
TIME: 2:31 PM
PLACE: St. Louis City Museum
SUBJECT: Wall of printer’s blocks
Today I accompanied StellaDella’s Brownie troop and troop leader to the City Museum in St. Louis. DramaQueen, MonkeyBoy and DQ’s BFF also came with us. It was a trade-off – they could come and have fun, but we also used them to help wrangle the 9 girls. Another set of parents met us later for even more reinforcements – then we let the three older ones off on their own. It worked out well. At 1:30pm we ate lunch in a private room off the Skateless Park. These blocks were attached to one of the end walls of our room.
