Taking Five.
Will Return Next Week
‘Tis the season to hunt a few winks
Deer hunting hasn’t changed since I wrote this Nov. 16, 1988. Ah, it’s time for the annual sleep in the woods. Yes, plural, a.m. and p.m. for two days. It’s the culmination of 363 days of longing for two days of deer hunting. Planning gets started about Labor Day. It begins with, ‘Are you going […]
The Navy took me to China, so did State alums
There’s so much being written and said about China these days I just had to get into the act. Another prompt was playing golf recently with a couple who were there with GM in 1998-99. Aboard the USS Woodford, we’d been moving around in the Pacific Ocean the late summer of 1945 from Pearl Harbor […]
Just jotting
Here’s the philosophy of the Michigan Lottery boosters: Make a bet every day, otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it. Bet high, it’s for your kids education ya? know! – – – 0 – – – My friend John Patrell is a self-made man, which shows what can happen if you don’t […]
China, 1992: Thriving, smelling, bikes, hiddens
China, 1992: Thriving, smelling, bikes, hiddens Last week Jottings took you to China following (VJ Day) Victory in Japan, 1945. We’ll now spin the hands of time forward to observations of China from my 1992 visit and some from friends who visited in 2000. – – – 0 – – – In 1992, the first […]
Unproven or even tried diet suggestions
But first – Do you realize that in about 40 years we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? And – If you let a smile be your umbrella most likely you’ll get your butt soaking wet. And – This tip from Home & Garden Television via The Detroit News Homestyle section is […]
Here to provide you more interest than a bank
I’m among the dullest knives in the drawer, but I didn’t need our electrical supplier to tell me how hot the last 30 days were. I got even hotter when I saw their most recent bill was $90 more than the same period in 2009. Edison explained: ‘Average temperatures for this billing were nine degrees […]
Properly trained grandkids love bacon
This has become a week to remember. Maybe not foriyou, but for me it’s been supreme. Thursday I again received my Bacon of the Month gift. Longtime Jottings readers will remember our daughter Susan gave me a membership in the Bacon of the Month Club last Christmas. The GratefuliPalate, Oxnard, CA is the pusher. In […]
Another time the judge got it right
Last March, the Waco, Texas Environmental Quality office received a complaint. It was alleged that David Cousins leased out a hunting cabin and allowed hunters to defecate in the woods. It was also alleged there is no restroom, and Mr. Cousins is planning to extend plumbing into a creek next to the cabin. The complaint […]
Tom Sawyer’s con job still alive
Con jobs had to have been practiced before Mark Twain wrote his book about Tom Sawyer getting his friends to do his painting. Else, how would the writer have come up with the idea. We can assume such conning is being practiced in nearly every home, by him, her or their children. Recently I was […]