by jphilo | Mar 25, 2014 | Top Ten Tuesday
10. Snow this late doesn’t stick around long.
9. The white stuff spruces up the dinginess of March.
8. Snow this late doesn’t stick around long.
7. Springtime snow = an extra week or two of soup weather.
6. Snow this late doesn’t stick around long.
5. Spring clothes last an extra year or two.
4. Snow this late doesn’t stick around long.
3. Snow in October riles kids up. Snow in March is an antidote to spring fever.
2. Snow this late doesn’t stick around long enough for this reason to be repeated again.
1. Snow on a late March Monday makes a late March Thursday trip to sunny southern California worth every penny!
by jphilo | Dec 3, 2013 | Top Ten Tuesday
10. “Jo, could you bring me the afghan my ma made. I’m cold.”
“Okay, Mom. Do you want the brown, orange, or cream-colored one?
9. “Is it time to go to bed yet? I’m tired.”
“It’s about 7:30. Can you make it until 8:00?”
8. “Jo, what do you have to eat around here?”
“Bananas, oranges, dried apples, cashews, or I can make some popcorn.”
“Oh, popcorn sounds good.”
7. “Here, Jo. Since you’re going to the kitchen, I’ll let you take my popcorn bowl to the
sink.”
“Okey-dokey.”
6. “It’s time for the weather/The Price is Right/Jeopardy/Judge Judy/Wheel of Fortune/Antiques Roadshow. Now, how does this remote work?”
“Hmmm…I can’t figure it out either. Let’s ask Hiram.”
5. “Mom, do you want to play Skippo?”
“I guess I can, if you’d like to.”
4. “Mom, would you like to play Uno?”
“I guess so, if it’ll make you happy.”
3. “Uno!”
“What do you mean, Uno already Mom?”
“I’m out, Jo. Eh-eh-eh!”
“How long have you been practicing that evil laugh? It’s kinda creepy, Mom.”
“Eh-eh-eh!”
“Dorothy, I’m going to record it and make it the ring tone on my phone.”
“Eh-eh-eh. Don’t even think it, Hiram.”
2. “Okay, Mom. It’s 8:30 if you want to go to bed. Sleep tight. I love you.”
“I know you do.”
1. “Both my mother and mother-in-law were really good cooks. You take after them, Jo.”
“Thanks, Mom.”
How does/did your mom say “I love you”? Leave a comment.
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by jphilo | Oct 16, 2013 | Recipes
Which of the following is the real reason there’s no recipe today:
a.) This blogger gave up cooking for Lent…four months early.
b.) This blogger chose to watch Mad Men on Netflix last weekend rather than download the cornbread photo and schedule the recipe post ahead of time. Now she’s in a hotel in Grand Rapids, the camera’s in the car, and it was much easier to download a picture of a kitchen on fire than to run out to the car in the rain to get the camera.
c.) The kitchen’s on fire.
d.) All of the above.
Please leave your answer in the comment box and come back tomorrow when your grade is posted.
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by jphilo | Jul 23, 2013 | Top Ten Tuesday
I arrived home from Alaska (the flowers above are considered a noxious weed in Kodiak) and Idaho almost a week ago. However, my life feels stuck in a hamster wheel of non-accomplishment. To make returning from vacation easier, perhaps someone could invent the items in this week’s top ten list.
10. A jet lag eliminator.
9. Automatic weed puller.
8. Automatic plant waterer.
7. Automatic flower dead header. Hmmm….a theme is emerging.
6. Email/mail scout to eliminate spam and junk mail. The deluxe version could include an authentic sounding response feature, too.
5. Refrigerator restocker.
4. Suitcase with washer/dryer combo to launder clothes on return trip.
3. A put-everything-back-where-it-belongs robot that could, say, take the hanging plants off the patio and back onto their hooks.
2. A vacation photo sorter with a sensor that beeps when your photos bore others. This refers to other people’s photos only, since mine are never boring or too numerous.
1. A painless healthy diet restorer.
What invention would make life easier for you after a vacation? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Jul 9, 2013 | Top Ten Tuesday
By 2:00 this afternoon, Hiram and I will have been married for 36 years. Here are the top ten perks of our long partnership:
10. We’ve both come to prefer water at meals. How easy is that?
9. 36 years later, he’s as handsome as he was when we met at the college freshman orientation dance in September of 1974.
8. When we’re on vacation and he says, “Jolene, take a picture of __________________,” I now know we’ll both be happier if I hand over the camera so he can capture the essence of whatever he sees, and I don’t.
7. We both agree Panera’s is the best place to stop for a quick meal on the road.
6. He’s an eternal pessimist. I’m an eternal optimist. Somewhere between our two points of view, we usually find reality.
5. He learned to love wilted lettuce. I learned to prepare and love his mom’s turkey hash. We agree both are delicious.
4. He knows I don’t like tramping in the wild woods, I know he doesn’t like big crowds, and we’ve quit trying to change one another.
3. Our shared memories of people and events are interpreted from differing points of view, but we’re learning to be happy to have memories to share.
2. We agree that watching our children become the adults God created them to be has been the most rewarding, terrifying, satisfying, and fascinating work we’ve ever done.
1. Shared faith brought us together, kept us together, and continues to mold us into the people we didn’t know we wanted to become when we wed on July 9, 1977.
