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One Woman Wearing Patchouli can Ruin your Day
Well, for certain it can ruin mine if I have to be anywhere near to her (and these days, there are a fair number of guys wearing it too). For those of you who do not know what patchouli is, Wikipedia has this to say about it: “Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth; also patchouly or…
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Senyru 11
I’ll admit, this one is dubious. I couldn’t seem to make it work the way it should. It’s been really cold here since Thanksgiving 2023. We got snow on that day but the temperature was still in the decent range. I think the high that day was 36 degrees. Of course, on Wednesday, the high…
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Straws
Quite a few years ago, I bought a number of stainless steel straws for when I want to drink something from a bottle. Usually it is ginger beer. Fever Tree is my favorite. Swigging it from the bottle can excite a coughing fit in me. So the straw is my go to. Even then I…
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Cats vs. Dogs: Pills
When you need to give a dog a pill, you can wrap it up in just about anything tasty. Dogs find a lot of things to be tasty as long as they are not green vegetables. Shoot, they like to eat, and also roll on, dead things. The dog will eat the tasty thing and…
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Artificial Intelligence
I’m not for it. I’ve seen enough science fiction movies and read enough science fiction stories in which the AI goes berserk to have severe reservations about the whole idea. I’m also old enough to think that computers are just fine as they are. We don’t really need them to start figuring out things for…
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Random Thoughts, Part 3
Taking Things to Extremes I remember when the first “Rocky” movie came out and then the second one and then the third one … and then I stopped paying attention. Well, one was really enough, wasn’t it? So, here I am with my 3rd installment of Random Thoughts. Some sequels improve on the original. Sadly…
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Just Around the Corner
Every year about this time, I am so darn tired of summer that I can barely wait for it to be autumn. This year, I don’t feel that way quite as much as I usually do. It’s been cooler than usual and rainier than usual. Very few sleepless nights due to the heat. I was…
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Faking Friendliness
My husband used to call me from work during his lunch breaks. He didn’t always have much to say and neither did I, but we enjoyed hearing each other’s voices. One day, however, he told me something that really got me worked up. And it takes quite a bit to get me truly riled. He’d…
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Hail Yes!
That’s not a typo. I’ve nothing against the occasional swear word or two, but in this case, I did not mean to use one. Here in Riverton, Wyoming, last winter was hard. I guess it was hard everywhere. But we really had a hard time with it. Chief among our personal troubles was ice dams.…
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The Agreeable Cat
I think that cats will always say “yes” to everything at the outset because they know they can say “no” later. And that’s my thought for the day. Photos courtesy of Days of the Year, You Tube and Cool Funny Quotes respectively
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