Some thoughts

Rosalie has been making sourdough bread and the first one she did was delicious. However, she didn’t want to make another for me as it was a lot of work pulling it and her wrists would get sore. So I suggested she put it in her bread-making machine and set it on ‘pull my dough’ and the result would be that I would get my dough pulled every hour and end up with a well-pulled dough and her wrists wouldn’t get sore.

Well, I thought it was funny.

When we have company I’m not allowed to use the “guest towel” but have to use the towel set aside just for me. I feel so special.

The news the other day suggested that we should no longer have seniors discounts. Some people agree and some disagree. I absolutely agree that we should. Rosalie and I can get by without it but we take advantage of it as much as possible as it helps. I think of what a help it would have been to my Mum when I was little and she didn’t have much income.

Just one example, think of a senior whose kids on the mainland just had a baby and she has to pay $16 on the ferry each way to go see them. That money would put a lot of food on her table. I know, the kids could pay but maybe they are in the same boat. Anyway, it was just an example of how senior discounts help.

Seniors helped to build this country, should get respect and a little extra once in a while. So there! Soon I’ll shut up about it, but first:

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Parents today give their kids the most peculiar names. There is Frant Zappa’s Moon and Dweezil Zappa, Elon Musk’s Strider and Azure with Zilis, X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno; and many more, as he has eleven living children with three different women.

What happened to George or Sheila, Tom or Elizabeth? I was at the Doctor’s office the other day and liked their dogs’ names much more than modern ones.

Way more civilized; I particularly like Carrot.

While in Mexico we met a lady with a kid named Axel. As we had been in the pub and had a few, we saw the funny side of this and decided that as he was named after a car part we would do the same for our kids (??) We had already decided that we would like Ocho for our firstborn so would follow that up with Gearbox, I think the next one should be Stixshift or Carbraeter-Turn Signal and for a girl Blinker-Flueed.

As the Melaque party is getting close and I’m feeling a lot better, I have been catching up on a few jobs. I had to re-paint the deck but first decided to power wash the skylights. Rosalie of course, gave me my first instruction “DO NOT GET ON THE ROOF”. A few minutes later I heard “WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE”! She scared me so much that I almost fell off, and then I panicked and said, “It was a gust of wind.” I don’t think she believed me. But I live on, barely.