"Give me a grain of truth and I will mix it up with a great mass of falsehood so that no chemist will be able to separate them." John Wilkes (1725-1797): Journalist, politician, essayist, magistrate, soldier, Mayor of London, and Member of Parliament
Maybe Cindy Crawford is right and at 70 I do need more hyaluronic acid face serum in my life.
The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed adult citizens or those who wished to become citizens to claim up to 160 acres of surveyed government land provided they lived on and improved the land. In 1974, Vietnam War vet Kenneth Deardorff, who was from California, homesteaded 50 acres on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. Deardorff is considered to be the last homesteader in the US.
Or maybe I need Cindy's youth activating melon serum.
The National Wildlife Federation has declared October as Leave the Leaves Month. Finally! Yes, let them fall, swirl around, decay, and feed your trees and plants. Too much for your orderly mind? Mow over them to mulch your yard. Or rake up and take them to a mulching center. Do not bag and send to the dump. Do not rake them into your roadside gutters or ditches. Your HOA would have a meltdown? Handout Feed Your Trees buttons to each member of the ruling neighborhood junta. Okay, junta is an overreach. But just barely.
Apparently, although I can offer no personal insight, colorful glassware sales are surging. Paul Kinnen at IKEA says, "Customers are daring to introduce new energy and shades into their table settings." Ah, the courage, the bravery, the chutzpah! Color me, nonplussed.
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." Louis L'Amour (1908-1988)
