Waiting for the fireplace people
Then, $826 later
And here's why we go to school
Meanwhile, a last word on the book larnin.
Don't we all.
Just so I don't think everything's going along all fixed, the downstairs toilet sprang a leak yesterday. Currently the water supply to it is shut off until I get it sorted. Always something..
Yesterday was hamburgers, well, plant-based hot spicy sausagy stuff. I don't see why nonmeat poses as meat, but this is hotter than the chicken sausage available, so okay.
And this morning's gala apple, mid morning usual snack, was perfect. Crunchy, sweet, juicy. The only reason it's a misfit is that it's small. I'll take it.
Some days your little apple rights the balance.
Happy day, everyone, I hope you have an apple adjacent day.
Small apples are ideal. And I'm with Earl.
ReplyDeleteI think quite a few of us have that abridged memory of books we're supposed to be familiar with.
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteAs a fellow vego, I too wonder at the meaty names of soy or other plant protein products... but I am thinking it is about marketing to the unconvinced. And actually, it worked with my old dad, bless his upturned toes. I said I would cook his meat for him as long as he accepted at least two meals a week of the food I cooked for myself. He ended up eating almost entirely of mine, thanks to some excellent 'mince' and 'sausage' brands! Although, to his credit, he was also very fond of my dahls and various veg curries.
On a note of readability, Liz, I have to say that I am unable to read most of the cartoon snips you put - I enlarge your page as it is, but they just pixelate. The Peanuts one was okay. YAM xx
Thanks for the comic strip note. Other readers: is this happening for you too? I upload on either phone or tablet, on which they're readable. I don't have a working laptop, so maybe that's an issue? Let me know please.
DeleteI can see them well on my laptop.
DeleteI click on the individual cartoon to enlarge it, and can then read the words fine on my laptop.
DeleteChris from Boise
Hari Om
DeleteThanks for the enlargement (with words I so agree with!)... Using the finger expansion for enlargement does pixelate these things for me but I twigged just now that I need to treat them as images.. and by tapping on them to photo view, the enlargement works. On both phone and laptop. For a tech geek, I can't believe it took that long to figure out! Yxx
That explains it, thank you. I've always treated them as images, so I wondered about the pixilating. All good now
DeleteApple crisp is in the oven! The why we go to school cartoon is a keeper. When I read the first panel, I was perturbed. What a nice surprise.
ReplyDeleteYes, a good turnaround.
DeleteFunny though, I remember some of the images I when reading Huckleberry Finn scenes. Now what they were doing or why they ended up there, that's blurry.
ReplyDeleteClass antagonism. That might be something on the rise if you know who does run for office. I've never been so disappointed in the US supreme court.
SCOTUS is rapidly becoming MCOTUS. M for mediocre.
DeleteSome things I've read I seem to never forget, others are gone from memory. Who knows why. What would they do without the people they look down on? Who would pick up their garbage, clean their hotel rooms, pick the produce they buy?
ReplyDeleteYes. Without your street sweepers, your poets couldn't manage at all!
DeleteBoth very good cartoons. I honestly respect those who do the unsung hero jobs the most. The garbage men, the construction workers, the nurses and the nurses' aids, the people who build the roads, and the ones who serve me in restaurants. Let's not forget the plumbers, electricians, car mechanics, and cleaners.
ReplyDeleteAnd Earl makes a good point in Pickles. To which I can relate.
Earl is us! I just read a nice comment about a book I'd recommended and had to look it up to find out what it was about.
DeleteThanks for enlarging the second cartoon panel, I would not have been able to read it otherwise!
ReplyDeleteBoth cartoons are good ones. A reminder about the dignity of all work and respect of workers is an important reminder! All I ever remember about books is whether I liked them or not.
ReplyDeleteI think our brains aren't adapted to remembering all these things we read. We get full up.
DeleteI can’t read the cartoon of the elderly man reading his book. But I totally agree with the lady in the second enlarged blurb
ReplyDeleteWhen my children were little. I’d spend ages picking all the little apples. Because they couldn’t finish a big one and definitely didn’t want mummy cutting up an apple to share. They loved just going to the fruit bowl and picking what they wanted.
Did you try tapping on the cartoon, photo style? Hari just realized that's the way.
DeleteYes, small fruit for small people works.
My mother's favorite phrase: It's not the original cost, it's the upkeep.
ReplyDeleteSo true. Just because I own my properties outright doesn't mean they're free! Always something. Especially properties in the 30-40 age range, things outlive their life expectancy
DeleteI lucked out and got 2 bags of organic apples *on sale* yesterday...many eatings of apples in my immediate future :)
ReplyDeleteLovely. I do enjoy my daily apple.
DeleteWe just replaced our ancient gas fireplace since parts were no longer available for the old one - it was not cheap!
ReplyDeleteSome things seem that they should go on forever, like fireplaces, furnaces. Sad that they don't.
DeleteYou'd think they could have come up with something more attractive to 'fix' your fireplace. Oh well, now it's a blank space to set off some of your art.
ReplyDelete'Pickles' made me laugh but there sure is an element of truth there.
It's not my fireplace. It's my tenant's. He's quite happy and thinking of moving furniture now that side doesn't have to be kept clear.
DeletePickles is us!