Another Gift in the Mail

Today I received a beautiful knit dish cloth that is too pretty to use. Bloggers are such nice people!

Thanks, Betsy,

Sparkling Clean

Several weeks ago, a long distance blogger friend sent me two scrubbers. They are made from a yarn that has a scratchy texture and it also sparkles.

I have used it and liked it so I thought I would show what it can do with only water. (Disclaimer: I did soak the Corning Ware pan with soapy water and wiped it out. Only the burned on spatters in the corners remained.)

Here are the pictures.  Before and After.

I only used water and a little elbow grease. Thanks, Connie.

Caddie Escalade

I noticed in the parking lot there was a beautiful car. . . a Cadillac Escalade. Do they still call them SUV's?

As we left, I saw the same vehicle behind me. I turned to the 35 mph street into the right lane, then signaled for a lane change to the left lane. I paid attention to my speed. So far I have not had a speeding ticket but I got one for rolling slowly through a stop sign after waiting for a car to pass by. One hundred and five dollars will get my attention every time.

But back to the gorgeous black Cadillac. He/she was behind me and did not like the speed limit so they rolled out to the right and sped right along. After a few feet of separation, they moved back into my lane with no lane change signal. I turtled right along behind with speeder leading the way. We both reached the same stop signal light just a few seconds apart. Two violations: speeding and no signal for a lane change. If only Live P D could have been there.

Some people are in such a big hurry.

Mail Order Before Amazon

This was at Montgomery Ward  in the catalog department in Dodge City, KS, about 1955. I got hired right out of college to be the "department head."

That's when I had a waist.

Snail Mail

I have recently exchanged letter with a friend in western Kansas. She wrote on the 20th.  The post mark says it was in Wichita on the 22nd. I received it on the 24th.

Things I remember about the mail in the past:

For a local letter, you only had to write "city" on the envelope, after the street address.

We had mail delivery two times a day.

The mail man walked his route. (I wonder if it was a different guy in the afternoon.)

You could mail a letter to another town in Kansas and they would receive it the next day.

The rate for a penny post card was one cent (really!)

A stamp for a regular size letter was three cents.

In case you haven't noticed, it's now fifty cents. I wouldn't mind that so much if the service was a little faster. When you think about it, that is a bargain because you can send your letter to anyplace in the United States for that amount.

I say just raise the rate to a dollar and maybe the post office could get out of debt.

We sent post cards out one year (the penny kind) I can't remember the first line but here is the rest of it.
…..…..cards sent at Christmastide,
My wishes for you are so many.
So after today, just throw it away.
The darn thing only cost me a penny.

Wednesday

I went to bed early last night and woke up early. However, I didn't get up and went back to sleep for two more hours. I know I had more than eight hours for a change.

We are still having wonderful weather for July but it is going to come to an end soon. Lee has been able to trim some vines on the house He is having more and more trouble walking, even with a cane.
But at least he keeps moving.

Speaking of which, I bought a cane I saw on the internet. It has segments that let you fold it up. It can stand on its own. Since I liked the idea of something unusual, it has a light and an alarm  on it. At night I can see and scare off any criminal.  (Like I'm ever out at night.) I do feel more secure walking. Ever since I took the physical therapy, I have felt more unsteady. I am  still doing the exercises at home since May 31st when therapy ended. It couldn't be the change is because I'm getting older every day and that has been sixty days!

Short Term Memory Loss

I was talking to my sister-in-law in New Jersey on the messenger part of Facebook.
Neither one of us could remember what I had written for the blog today.

There was a good reason. I hadn't posted anything yet.

We still have coolness. I went to Harbor Freight to buy one of those long handled deals that help you reach stuff on high shelves and change light bulbs. We had seen an ad in a flyer for one on sale for two dollars!  They were in the back of the store and when I paid at the cash register, I asked about the sale. She mentioned a coupon. I said, no,that I didn't have one. So I paid the huge charge of $3.26.

When I got home, I looked up the ad. Sure enough. The ad was on a whole page of items and each one had a dotted line around it and it was a COUPON.

Neither Lee and I are very observant. Lee was the one who had seen it first so I'll blame him.