Faithful Friday 6-6
National Hug Your Cat Day
Here’s another one to celebrate at your own risk- it’s Hug Your Cat Day! Everyone knows I share my home with several cats. We have Boots, Lilly and Oreo. I can safely say that none of them like to be hugged. In fact, I can’t think of a single cat I’ve ever known who likes being hugged. But they are… Read more »
Iowa is in the News Again. Oh No!
It seems that my adopted home state of Iowa is developing a reputation for people saying and doing dumb things. I don’t think we have quite reached “Florida man” status yet, but we are well on our way to becoming the Florida of the north. And unfortunately, another new entry was just logged into our permanent record. On May 30th… Read more »
Faithful Friday 5-30
National Paper Clip Day
Here’s a nice, light hearted-one. It’s National Paper Clip Day! We all use them. We probably never think about them. But in the late 1800s people were thinking about them a LOT. Between 1867 ad 1904 over 50 patents were filed for different designs for “gem clips” – what we know as paper clips today. So take another look at… Read more »
Memorial Day
Faithful Friday 5-23
Buy a Musical Instrument Day
Today is another one near and dear to my heart- it’s buy a musical instrument day! In my dad’s family it’s not a matter of if you are going to be in band- the only question is what instrument you were going to play. No one is forced into this- we all looked forward to the day we got to… Read more »
Top(?) 5 Dumb Things I’ve Done Lately
They say if you can laugh at yourself you you will never run out of material. I am certainly proof of that. In no particular order, here are the top five times I have had no choice but to laugh at myself recently: #1 Forgetting what direction I was going. I was on my way home after a quick trip… Read more »
Faithful Friday 5-16