When I was a kid it was the Sears Christmas catalog. Pages and pages of toys and stuff. They always seemed to have things I’d never see at the stores in our town. I always liked dolls, and they’d have the prettiest ones. With baby doll cribs and classy looking prams….and real china tea sets, [...]
Last year, I grew scallop summer squash, green zucchini, and my old standby, New England pie pumpkins in the garden. Truth to tell, I’m not that big on squash, unless you bread it and fry it, perhaps with some ranch dressing on the side! There was so much, I was chopping up zucchini and [...]
No kidding! I stopped at Safeway to grab a few things, and this soothing little ballad came on the sound system! I was 17 when it came out and that was 39 years ago!
One of these days I just know- I’ll step into an elevator and Zep’s “Immigrant Song” will be playing….no more Robert Goulet?
I’ve discovered that sometimes bad times bring out the best in people.
I fondly remember the 1978 “Blizzard of the Century” when we lived in Toledo. Not for the 80 mph wind and the horizontal snow;that sucked.After it was pretty much over, everybody in our end of town wanted OUT…so it was time to put on [...]
I’ve decided that somebody needs to blog about “turtles in the news” Last week, air traffic on a runway at JFK was shut down for a time while 78 terrapins were relocated to a safer place! Originally it was thought the turtles came out on the runway to mate. (just imagine the video I [...]
Young Seb Neale, 26, of Wales, UK accidentally died last month. Seb was also a happy Doctor Who fan. In the midst of their loss, his parents generously let his friends organize his funeral and they gave him a send off worthy of a Time Lord.They made over his blue coffin to resemble [...]
It’s Tesla’s birthday! A day to recognize one of the smartest humans who has ever lived!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Among other things, he lit up the world!
And he invented Radio. Mr. Marconi used 17 of Tesla’s patents!
And a whole lot of people will be wondering what this is all about-
Earlier this week I found out that one of my favorite films just came out as part of a Jack Lemmon retrospective. It’s “Good Neighbor Sam” from 1964. So I got that baby queued up on Netflix and we watched it last night.
Sam is an all-American everyman; sort of a earlier version of [...]