Watch what you eat

Some people are just so stupid it is hard to believe. I was going through old newspapers and noticed a headline about people getting sick from eating a homemade stew. The story was that an ambulance had been dispatched to a residence because “a person was sick.” When the ambulance arrived at the house, there were a LOT of people sick, and they were all transported to the hospital. I don’t know how many ambulances actually were used, I just know that they all ended up at the hospital. They were calling it a “mystery illness.” Well, it turned out that the people took ill because they had all eaten a stew that was made with some herbs picked from in front of the house that had been sprayed with some kind of pesticide and was not properly washed before used in the food. I can’t believe that people are so stupid as to use pesticide on their crops and then not wash it off! To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they didn’t KNOW that pesticide had been used, but still for goodness sake you should wash your food before eating it, a dog could have passed by and peed on it!

Taking down the tree

Over the course of the weekend, my wife took the decorations off of the Christmas tree and packed them all away.  Now it’s up to me to haul it outside and put it by the curb for the trash service to haul away.  This is the part where I start to feel guilty about having a real cut tree for Christmas.  Although I love the smell of a real tree, I feel guilty about having taken a part in killing a tree.  I think that maybe next year I’ll look into buying one of those trees with a root ball still on it so that I can plant it out in the yard in the spring.

Winter’s just begun

Winter’s just begun, and already I’m a little bit tired of it.  I don’t usually get tired of it this quickly; I think it is probably a little bit of the “SAD” kicking in.  The week has been overcast most of the time, we’ve had quite a bit of rain.  I don’t mind the cold if it is sunny out, but cold and wet is just “blah” – bring me spring!  It doesn’t help to be getting all of those catalogs in the mail now from the flower companies, trying to get me to buy flowers!  Makes me REALLY anxious for spring!  I want to get my hands in the dirt and be planting and weeding.  Come on spring – I’m ready for you!

Merry Christmas

Well the gifts have been all unwrapped, the dinner eaten, dishes done. Another Christmas come and gone. This year was low key, calmer than most. There were no little ones running around the house. I’m not sure, but I think I kind of missed the energy of a young one at Christmas. And there were very few gifts exchanged; the economy has had a strong effect on everyone. It was good to see everyone, but you could tell that there was a subdued feeling because of everyone’s financial stresses. I hope next Christmas is a better one.

So many choices

I never realized when Lisa told me that she needed to get a couple of sets of scrubs for her new job, that buying scrubs would involve so many different choices! I thought that I would surprise her with a pair or two for a Christmas gift, but when I went online to http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/ and saw all of the different ones to choose from I started to think that maybe the best thing to do for her is to give her a gift card to buy her own.

I think it is great that there ARE so many different patterns to choose from; it makes a visit to the hospital or to the doctor less frightening for children, and could be a conversation starter for other folks. It certainly lets the patients know that the nurses and doctors have a personality and a sense of humor! It’s good to know that the people in charge of your health care have a sense of humor! Makes the whole process a little less intimidating, you know what I mean?