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Two months in a row with a Friday the thirteenth. Some math whiz can figure out how often that happens. Has to be only when February has a Friday 13 and it's not a leap year. My guess is about once in a decade or so.
That early robin has been sitting outside my work window every day this week, in an ornamental crabapple tree. The crabs are about the size of large peas, freeze dried after the winter. I was wondering where he'd find bugs or worms to eat with the ground still frozen. Today I saw him eating the crabapples several times. He just swallows them whole. Hope he can digest them. I think he was trying to sing even, judging by his movements and the puffing in and out of his throat at times.
Then on the way home I saw several more robins along the edge of the road, so I guess he's not the only one now. It's still darned cold. Gary had the woodstove going all day today, which is unusual for him. I actually slept in the living room last night (he was out of town at his mom's) so as to be near the stove.
Flipped through two magazines after dinner. One of them, Food and Wine, we are getting for free for some reason, since we never subscribed to it. The other is Better Homes and Gardens, to which I did subscribe when they sent me an offer of three years for six dollars total. Magazine publishers must be really desperate to keep their subscriber count up so they can charge enough for the ads. Both publications are loaded with ads, more pages of advertising than content I'm sure. I'm glad I paid nothing for Food and Wine because it's snooty and pretentious and full of itself. The recipes, as pictured, look like haystackes or the top of my compost bucket when I lift the lid. The wine they praise comes at $100 a bottle. Someone needs to tell them there's a depression going on. Even if all those bank execs who made out like bandits last year, plus Madoff himself, are subscribers, most everyone else is likely to be getting a bit pissed at them. BH&G hasn't changed in my lifetime. Some of the recipes sound like they might be worth a try. The home decor not so much. Their current thing seems to be trying to "tone down" a house by decorating with garage sale bargains and so forth. I have no objection to that, but all the photos look incredibly contrived and most of the rooms would not be usable in my opinion. Oh well, what, 36 issues for six dollars is about 18 cents apiece isn't it? About 5% of the cover price ($3.49.) One interesting recipe or one useful grocery store coupon a month is all it will take to pay for that.
That early robin has been sitting outside my work window every day this week, in an ornamental crabapple tree. The crabs are about the size of large peas, freeze dried after the winter. I was wondering where he'd find bugs or worms to eat with the ground still frozen. Today I saw him eating the crabapples several times. He just swallows them whole. Hope he can digest them. I think he was trying to sing even, judging by his movements and the puffing in and out of his throat at times.
Then on the way home I saw several more robins along the edge of the road, so I guess he's not the only one now. It's still darned cold. Gary had the woodstove going all day today, which is unusual for him. I actually slept in the living room last night (he was out of town at his mom's) so as to be near the stove.
Flipped through two magazines after dinner. One of them, Food and Wine, we are getting for free for some reason, since we never subscribed to it. The other is Better Homes and Gardens, to which I did subscribe when they sent me an offer of three years for six dollars total. Magazine publishers must be really desperate to keep their subscriber count up so they can charge enough for the ads. Both publications are loaded with ads, more pages of advertising than content I'm sure. I'm glad I paid nothing for Food and Wine because it's snooty and pretentious and full of itself. The recipes, as pictured, look like haystackes or the top of my compost bucket when I lift the lid. The wine they praise comes at $100 a bottle. Someone needs to tell them there's a depression going on. Even if all those bank execs who made out like bandits last year, plus Madoff himself, are subscribers, most everyone else is likely to be getting a bit pissed at them. BH&G hasn't changed in my lifetime. Some of the recipes sound like they might be worth a try. The home decor not so much. Their current thing seems to be trying to "tone down" a house by decorating with garage sale bargains and so forth. I have no objection to that, but all the photos look incredibly contrived and most of the rooms would not be usable in my opinion. Oh well, what, 36 issues for six dollars is about 18 cents apiece isn't it? About 5% of the cover price ($3.49.) One interesting recipe or one useful grocery store coupon a month is all it will take to pay for that.
