Salt of the Earth
I cannot be the only one being urged to try the “Himalayan Salt Trick”. It’s everywhere online and in some publications too. Every digital salesperson–we’re lookin’ at you, Oprah–has a tear-jerker of a tale about how they’d slipped into avoirdupois Purgatory and would not go outside without being wrapped in a sheet. Their love life was shot, their wardrobe...
Hands OFF!!!!
What is it with people who seem to think that everything…EVERYTHING…is theirs to do with as they please? Whatever…whenever…wherever…however they please. How does this get to be a mind-set? This is a vandalism state of mind and it does none of us any good, least of all those who “get away with it” and continue to behave in this...
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty
That was me after the football game on Friday. Driving home on Liberty St.--late–just past SkyLanes, I spotted a cat in the road…putting at least one of its nine lives on the line…and had to swerve to avoid being the deliverer of that fate. I pulled into the space by the car wash, fished out my flashlight and went...
OMG!!
What a beautiful way to end a Summer that spent WAY too much time resembling the hinges of hell. Gorgeous finale. Activities of all sorts (Zach Peterson Memorial Bash, Cleveland Air Show, Great Geauga County Fair, all of the miscellaneous family gatherings–all of it!) got to soak up the sun, break out the BBQ, kiss one season goodbye and...
Aaaaannnnnd we’re off !!
Told ya ! As soon as the Fourth of July is done, it’s the looonnnng slide into SCHOOL. Slide’s over now and here we are, back at it. But first… Got my tricycle fixed. Thanks to all those who inquired and offered to attempt restoration of my mobility. The Fix-it Elf( no relation to the Tooth Fairy that I know of)...
Between a rock and a hard place!
How, How, How is a person supposed to manage to learn to use these devices if all of the instructions assume that you already KNOW all of the technical directions and language and are able to follow them. Here I am back in familiar surroundings -- between a rock and a hard place. Brand-new equipment is no assurance of competence...
Bikers. I Need Bikers!
Well, one, anyway. We can skip the heavy metal, major leather, tattoo extravaganza biker-types (Not that I have anything against such displays, mind you) I just need somebody to show me how to adjust my tricycle. I purchased this beauty last summer because riding my regular two-wheeler was becoming an exercise in scary balance issues and I just sort of...
Applause! Applause!
That goes to the latest iteration of theatrical presentation by the Garrettsville Curtains Up Theatre, a farce titled “The Play That Goes Wrong”...which it did in so many ways–all of ‘em intended but, still…. The whole premise of the thing, I think, is to illustrate some of the various things that can go wrong in any dramatic–or musical, for that...
Play It Again, Sam!
That’s a famous line from a famous movie (Or at least one everybody thinks that they remember, whether they did or not. Casablanca?). We may have a local version with a small variation : “Play it again everyone.”...with “everyone” being our latest BIG Band, The Thrill of the ‘Ville. In case you missed it, Saturday night was the place to...
I’ve Gotta Get Out More
No. Really Then I would not be so amazed at what’s out there. Walking around in front of God and everybody. Nor is it just the people, the products are pretty far out there sometimes too. I’ve gotten used to hair–long, short, absent (by choice or by chop)color challenged or color riotous, styled or not so–in various iterations, some flattering,...
Skip The Waiting Room
…Or not. Local boy, Jared Sheehan, having made good (more or less–he’s the chief innovation officer at a company called Quick MD and co-founded various technology-driven companies supporting various social impact industries) returned to his old “stomping grounds”, so-to-speak, to communicate the latest thinking in and about medicine online at the Garrettsville branch of the Portage County District Library on...
Wunderbar
“Wunderbar”--pronounced “VoonderBahr”-- is something that just recently popped up in my head…well, sorta. Back in the day–other ancient persons such as myself may remember–there was a pop music style around the late forties, early fifties (WAY before the Beatles, or even Elvis made the scene)featuring vocal groups, like the Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxine and LaVerne, remember them?)(even the Lennon...
Well, Alrighty Then…
Quite the SummerFest it was. A good deal of the time, it was “hotter than the hinges of hell”, but almost all of the time it was “tons o’ fun” for the crowds of folks in the streets, at the entertainment venues, watching the dunking tank or the bull-riding location…or EATING ! Yup. The food was abundant and varied…as usual. I...
The Wheels On The Bus…
Even more important than the wheels on the bus is the driver behind the steering wheel in the front of the bus. Here’s your chance to be really, really important–try being a school bus driver. These important people are in short supply right now and really, really needed by about every school district in these parts–and a bunch of other...
Are We Festive Yet???
June is sorta shy of big-time holidays and celebrations. Ya got yer Flag Day on the 14th, yer Full Strawberry Moon on the 11th, Juneteenth National Independence Day on–what else–the 19th, the Summer Solstice ( the astronomical /meteorological first day of Summer–longest day of the year) on the 20th, a Shakespearean Midsummer Day on the 24th (to go with...
C–JAG, Atten-Hut !!!
Army-ish orders from Camp James A. Garfield. Kinda. The recent tour of Camp James A. Garfield (As one participant commented during a Q&A session :” Anybody raised around here will probably refer to it as ‘the Arsenal’ until the end of our days.”) was interesting…enlightening…engaging for likely all of the folks gawking out the windows of the buses carrying them...
Going, Going… GONE!
Well, mostly. The annual Rummage Sale at the Garrettsville Family YMCA has moved off into the history books…well, books of some sort anyway (There really are people who keep track of such things, I guess.). Now comes the clean-up, empty-out, back-to-normal phase–which could take a little longer. Thanks to all of the shoppers who came, saw, and made off with...
Thank You 2025!
The Class of 2025 may wish to claim responsibility for the excellent weather this weekend. Might as well start out on the rest of your adult life with a great opening event. The fact that your moms & dads were probably sincerely hoping for a cessation of the downpours which we have been graced with lately may have played a...
May Musings
As someone at the Y said to me the other day, “Must be gonna rain, it’s Yard/Garage Sale weekend.” That proved to be prophetic; people all over town were covering and uncovering their stashes of valuables from the leftover April showers that were coming to town, off-and-on, most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Got caught in a few, escaped...
Horticulture Hotline
Well, I finally did it. I got every green thing that I could stuck into a pot, a plot or a raised bed–no bunks, though (too prone to night-time pranks; I have wildlife to manage that; the raccoons and opossums are such kidders. Gotta take skunks seriously anytime.). Some of the hardier ones look as though they might survive,...
May Flowers? No Pilgrims In Sight
Not a lot of sunshine either, lately. And did you celebrate May Day? You missed marking the halfway point between Spring (Vernal Equinox) and Summer ( Summer Solstice). Used to be a fairly common excuse to celebrate something–anything– after a long winter, I suppose. There were May Poles, and May Dances, especially on womens’ colleges back in the day, folks...
Comin’ For Ya, Martha!
Well, I am sure that Mart is shakin’ in her shoes (the brand new ones–Skechers, dontcha know) when she contemplates my gardening efforts. Martha Stewart has more than one residence, so she has plenty of opportunity to landscape to her heart’s content–and plenty of minions to haul the up-scale compost to designated areas, too, I’ll bet.. I admire that…wish that...
May Flowers It Is
You know…the May flowers that come after the April showers…which we did have a few of. We do not even have to wait for the song from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical, “Carousel”. The relevant lyrics go like this : “March went out like a lion, A-whippin’ up the water in the bay. Then April cried and stepped aside. And along...
Is This Really It???
It’s Spring…sorta. Get out and watch your favorite runner…thrower…catcher…jumper…lifter…hitter…pitcher…whatever. Dress in layers and take your raincoat and/or umbrella–you know how it gets around here–maybe rain boots, a hat. You never know–maybe mittens? Watching a track meet, baseball game, softball game in snow flurries is not beyond the realm of possibility; I’ve done it myself, and lived to tell the...
Brrrr!! Go Team!!!
Springtime ! April showers and all that. Snow in the forecast. Must be Track Season ! One of those groundhogs must have been funnin’ us. March came “out like a lion” and trickled past April Fool’s Day, giving us this. (OFA quote : “Fools grow without watering”.) Just thinking about all of the athletes–we can even count baseball and softball...
Everything BUT The Kitchen Sink
Get yourself to the Geauga County Home & Garden & Farm & Whatever Exposition next year. You missed it this time; and what an exposition it was! The place, up on Nauvoo Road, was two buildings…maybe three…maybe four…it was hard to tell, full of all kinds of things, particularly for the Amish community but welcoming to anyone else who came...
“Vernal” “Schmernal” is this the real thing?
Okay, I’ve seen worms on the sidewalk, I’ve seen daffodils coming up (as well as a couple of lonely tulips) in front of the Y, there are more actual puddles of water than treacherous ice hazards, I got up at 3 A.M. to see the lunar eclipse (which was fairly impressive, I will say–too bad we couldn’t see it...
Was That A Polar Bear On A Bike??
Coulda been–the grizzlies are still in caves…in Geauga County. Anyway, the bikers were in Garrettsville for the 10th Annual RoadApple Roubaix bike event–all four hundred and seventy-some crazy wheelers in the snow and cold pedalling either the long route (50 miles, give or take) or the short one (25 miles and just as chilly), winding up at Slim and Jumbo’s...
I’ve got to get out more…
For any number of reasons, actually. I have always said that I should not be allowed to go shopping unsupervised. Especially GROCERY shopping. Good Grief ! the stuff that’s out there for sale ! And not at bargain prices either. Eggs are only the tip of the iceberg…and a real expensive ol’ berg it is, for sure. For somebody who...
Is this Groundhog’s Day or April first?
I never saw the movie, “Groundhog’s Day” but I gather that the premise of the whole thing was that the same events kept happening over and over again. Beyond that, I am totally ignorant (not that this doesn’t apply to a whole lot of situations as well.) of the point of the film. After the eleventeenth weather program warning...
