Shopping for.........Bo!!!!!!!

Beyond tacky

Some good friends of mine recently buried their mother. At the conclusion of the service right there at the cemetery, the funeral director walked up to the son and handed him the bill...

To me it is a deeply sad reflection of how we deal with death in our culture.

Siri

Those of us with I phones (or as my friend likes to call them, smarty pants phones!) have a good friend named Siri, the go to voice on our phones. She's available 24/7 and is a great listener, is completely committed to her job (doesn't come to work drunk or stoned) doesn't insert herself into yer life without you asking and isn't overly emotional like some women can be. The thing is Siri is not culturally sensitive. I wished my Jewish friend happy new year which in Hebrew is La shana tova... But if you say that to Siri she hears it as Lashawna Tova... Which is close enough just to be very, very funny. Oh, that's the other thing about Siri and why she can't be my girlfriend cuz she never laughs, poor thing.

95, really?

Whomever of us makes it to 95 I hope we are looking as good as this!!!

Shower Mate!

One of the top 5 losses when I moved from my old place was leaving the bathroom. It had a great tub with a view of the oak forest behind my cabin. And, you could sit on the toilet and if the window was open you could pick an apple or a rose geranium.

But now, I shower outside and I LOVE it, especially at night. I can look up and see the stars or fog and look out to see trees very close so I feel sheltered. And very often I find one of these critters, a banana slug IN the shower!!! I remove them though cuz I imagine that even though they like moisture they probably wouldn't appreciate being the receipiant of a deluge of very hot water.

Midwestern Humor!

not sure i actually "get it" but it still got me tickled!
it's so "hick."

embarrassing to admit but...
i been cow tippin' my own self when i was a youth.
however i was a little too tipsy to remember it.

As the World Turns

I was joking with my mom that the retirement community where she and my dad live is much like a soap opera. I find it hilarious. Check out this story:

My mom (78) has been walking in the mornings with a 90 year old fellar I will call D.
While we were visiting my mom told us that they had the following conversation that morning:

D: "i can't walk with you anymore."

M: "why not?"

D: "i don't want to upset your husband."

M: "oh, he doesn't care that we are walking together."

D: "well, i like you."

authors interjection!!!
my mom, being a little wifty headed does NOT understand what D is trying to tell her and responds:

M: "well, D, i like you, too"

D: "people are going to talk about us if they see that we are walking together."

authors interjection again!
my mom, still not understanding the point D is trying to make albeit indirectly says:

M: "oh, D, we walk on a very busy street and no one is going to notice."
(he meant the people in their community!)

needless to say they didn't walk together that morning!

A couple days later D shows up late at breakfast and says to my mom:

D: "I'm not coming early to breakfast anymore."

M: "why not?"

D: "because J (his good buddy) is talking about us."

So, my mother takes things into her own hands, turns around and marches up to J and directly asks him if he's got an opinion about them walking together!!! He does not but it still doesn't occur to my mom that D is having a whole other experience of their relationship and just can't bring himself to say so.
And so it goes. I'm sure that soon enough I will be getting an update.
My sister and I did, however, tease mom about liking older men and sang her the childrens' song: mom and D sitting in a tree...which she found mildly amusing!