Shades of Rudy Vallee’s My time is Your Time. Well, to me, My Time is Tomato Time. But, my regular reader knows that. Response to previous columns has brought a half dozen ways of cooking the bacon, which is the ‘B? in BLT, which I know you know. The George Foreman grill has been suggested […]
Question: Who or which person, company or organization first started answering your phone calls with voice mail? I think it was government – local, county, state – offices and bureaus within those units. And, with the great, and apparently accepted use of acronyms, here’s one for voice mail: EAS. Electronic Avoidance System. Oh, how many […]
I may be a little late bringing you The Old Farmers? Almanac weather predictions for the rest of this year and 2004. Their complimentary magazine just arrived this week. But, here’s the summary for their Region 9, Chicago and Southern Great Lakes: Winter will be cold, with temperatures three degrees below normal, on average. Temperatures […]
We’ve heard it from our mothers, grandmothers and even the pulpit – Never Go Grocery Shopping On An Empty Stomach! But, did we learn? No! That ‘no? includes everybody who ever entered a grocery store. If we didn’t learn from those mentioned above, we should have gotten the message when groceries started installing self-opening doors. […]
Gleaned from a newsletter from St. Augustine’s Lutheran monastery in Oxford: ‘New windows have been installed in the bedrooms of the retreat house. Through the summer months guests appreciated larger windows and the ease with which they could be opened and closed. The better widows should also make the rooms warmer in the winter.? Maybe […]
When our daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Tim Speed, sit down to dinner they ask the twins and daughter Savannah to say the blessing. They try to alternate them, but sometimes one will volunteer. Anyway, this evening they got Trevor, 4, to say the prayer: ‘God is great, God is good, let us thank Him […]
But, Jim’s Jottings will return next week!
Getting a haircut recently I overheard some of Gayle Schlicht’s deer hunting plans. They have a cabin w-a-a-y up north. It sounded like one huge room that sleeps 16 with a wood burning stove in the middle. They’ll cut next year’s firewood this season, as they’ve done for years. Of the 14 scheduled this season […]
First, my toad story needs some background. After being discharged, honorably, from the United States Navy in 1946 I went back to Western Michigan University where I’d already spent one prewar year. With an ego the size of Everest, and self appreciation of my athletic ability to match, I went out for Western’s basketball team. […]
It crossed my mind while watching a Detroit Lions (professional?) football game that vendors in the stadium food booths would probably like to sell as many hot dogs as there are down on the field in Honolulu Blue and White. The gyrations some of the million-dollar-a-game guys display after they catch a pass, tackle a […]