Grandmas Goulash

Someday, fashion designer, Matilda, would be applauded for her innovative use of color and texture. Childhood was not that time.   Dennis The Menace might be tough competition, but The Red Menace was up to the challenge.   Initially dismayed, Fuzzy grew to enjoy his vivid third color. Barbie was taken into protective custody and began a new life as a red head.  

The weather has been such a tease. We have catapulted from eighty degree temps to freezing in less than a day, then sprang back up into the fifties just as quickly. Is that why they call it spring? Signs of spring are everywhere including some daffodil and tulips poking their heads through the ground. Even the grass is beginning to look green again. Time to call our lawn guy and hope that he also services this area. He does a great job and is a wonderful example of entrepreneurship. He got some businesscards, orobably not made by professional  business card printers , but they had all the pertinent info. He drove all over our old neighborhood and left a card along with the cost for his services based on the lawn. He undercut all of the competition, did a great job and now has a thriving business.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to use him again this year. Then I can concentrate on the flowers.

I couldn’t believe I saw a Santa poster in the store the other day. Come on, Santa. Give the Easter Bunny a break. Thankfully, there were no reindeer, elves or presents in sight – just Santa checking his list. I thought he just checked the Naughty or Nice list in December. Perhaps this was a different list. A grocery list? A to-do list? A wish list? Maybe it was a list of lists. Don’t laugh. Those things really exist. Seriously. I found a Harvard Business Review article that identified checklist categories: task list, coordination list, troubleshooting list and more. There was even an interview with the surgeon/author, who wrote The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right. It got a lot of 5-star reviews on Amazon, but I’m not running out to buy it. I understand why surgeons use checklists and I’m glad that they do. I’m glad that there are realtor checklists. I’ve never forgotten the day we went to closing and came home without a house due to an important detail that had b...

I couldn’t believe I saw a Santa poster in the store the other day. Come on, Santa. Give the Easter Bunny a break. Thankfully, there were no reindeer, elves or presents in sight – just Santa checking his list. I thought he just checked the Naughty or Nice list in December. Perhaps this was a different list. A grocery list? A to-do list? A wish list? Maybe it was a list of lists. Don’t laugh. Those things really exist. Seriously. I found a Harvard Business Review article that identified checklist categories: task list, coordination list, troubleshooting list and more. There was even an interview with the surgeon/author, who wrote The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right. It got a lot of 5-star reviews on Amazon, but I’m not running out to buy it. I understand why surgeons use checklists and I’m glad that they do. I’m glad that there are realtor checklists. I’ve never forgotten the day we went to closing and came home without a house due to an important detail that had ...

Crash ignored the pain and flashed a rakish grin at the spectators. He was getting too old for this, but he was loath to admit it.  

Spring forward! The proverbial mnemonic worked as well for mud races as it did for clocks.