Cut up a disposable water bottle and keep the neck and top, as in photo.
Insert the plastic bag through the neck and screw the top – to seal.
Friday, September 24, 2010
September 24
How to seal a bag and make it air-tight! A very good tip to pass on. And you won't have to be saving all those twist ties. Now if we could just figure out what to do with the bottom of the bottle.
Cut up a disposable water bottle and keep the neck and top, as in photo.
Insert the plastic bag through the neck and screw the top – to seal.
Cut up a disposable water bottle and keep the neck and top, as in photo.
Insert the plastic bag through the neck and screw the top – to seal.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
September 22
Prepare for the Super Harvest Moon! For the first time in two decades, the Sun will sink as the full Moon rises exactly opposite to it on the day the summer ends, creating in a strange 360-degree twilight show.
When the Sun starts to set on the Western horizon, a full moon will rise opposite to it on the East, reflecting the light of our home star.
Being close to the horizon, the orange Moon will be gigantic thanks to a psychological effect called the Moon illusion. The sky will be illuminated by the Sun and the Moon at the same time, creating a weird 360-degree effect that is rarely seen.
The event will probably not reoccur until 2029.
And as an added bonus, when the summer ends at 10:09pm Central Time, Jupiter will appear right next to the Moon.
When the Sun starts to set on the Western horizon, a full moon will rise opposite to it on the East, reflecting the light of our home star.
Being close to the horizon, the orange Moon will be gigantic thanks to a psychological effect called the Moon illusion. The sky will be illuminated by the Sun and the Moon at the same time, creating a weird 360-degree effect that is rarely seen.
The event will probably not reoccur until 2029.
And as an added bonus, when the summer ends at 10:09pm Central Time, Jupiter will appear right next to the Moon.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
September 15
This brought back some memories:
1. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes-walk the entire lengths of each line with a damp cloth around the lines.
2. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites," and hang them first.
3. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders, always by the tail! What would the neighbors think?
4. Wash day is on a Monday! Never hang clothes on the weekend, or Sunday, for heaven's sake!
5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know)!
6. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather. Clothes would "freeze-dry."
7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! Pins left on the lines were "tacky!"
8. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
9. Clothes in the basket, and ready to be ironed. Ironed?! Well, that's a whole other subject!
10. And the most important one, Don't play hide-n-seek in the drying sheets.
POEM
A clothesline was a news forecast
To neighbors passing by
There were no secrets you could keep
When clothes were hung to dry.
It also was a friendly link
For neighbors always knew
If company had stopped on by
To spend a night or two.
For then you'd see the "fancy sheets"
And towels upon the line
You'd see the "company table cloths"
With intricate designs.
The line announced a baby's birth
From folks who lived inside
As brand new infant clothes were hung
So carefully with pride!
The ages of the children could
So readily be known
By watching how the sizes changed
You'd know how much they'd grown!
It also told when illness struck
As extra sheets were hung
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too
Haphazardly were strung.
It also said, "Gone on vacation now"
When lines hung limp and bare
It told, "We 're back!" when full lines sagged
With not an inch to spare!
New folks in town were scorned upon
If wash was dingy and gray
As neighbors carefully raised their brows
And looked the other way.
But clotheslines now are of the past
For dryers make work much less
Now what goes on inside a home
Is anybody's guess!
I really miss that way of life
It was a friendly sign
When neighbors knew each other best
By what hung on the line!
1. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes-walk the entire lengths of each line with a damp cloth around the lines.
2. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites," and hang them first.
3. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders, always by the tail! What would the neighbors think?
4. Wash day is on a Monday! Never hang clothes on the weekend, or Sunday, for heaven's sake!
5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know)!
6. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather. Clothes would "freeze-dry."
7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! Pins left on the lines were "tacky!"
8. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
9. Clothes in the basket, and ready to be ironed. Ironed?! Well, that's a whole other subject!
10. And the most important one, Don't play hide-n-seek in the drying sheets.
POEM
A clothesline was a news forecast
To neighbors passing by
There were no secrets you could keep
When clothes were hung to dry.
It also was a friendly link
For neighbors always knew
If company had stopped on by
To spend a night or two.
For then you'd see the "fancy sheets"
And towels upon the line
You'd see the "company table cloths"
With intricate designs.
The line announced a baby's birth
From folks who lived inside
As brand new infant clothes were hung
So carefully with pride!
The ages of the children could
So readily be known
By watching how the sizes changed
You'd know how much they'd grown!
It also told when illness struck
As extra sheets were hung
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too
Haphazardly were strung.
It also said, "Gone on vacation now"
When lines hung limp and bare
It told, "We 're back!" when full lines sagged
With not an inch to spare!
New folks in town were scorned upon
If wash was dingy and gray
As neighbors carefully raised their brows
And looked the other way.
But clotheslines now are of the past
For dryers make work much less
Now what goes on inside a home
Is anybody's guess!
I really miss that way of life
It was a friendly sign
When neighbors knew each other best
By what hung on the line!
Friday, September 10, 2010
September 10
Where is The Post Office?
A little boy was waiting for his mother to come out of the grocery store.
As he waited, he was approached by a man who asked,
"Son, can you tell me where the Post Office is?"
The little boy replied,
"Sure! Just go straight down this street a
Couple of blocks and turn to your right."
The man thanked the boy kindly and said,
"I'm the new pastor in town.
I'd like for you to come to church on Sunday.
I'll show you how to get to Heaven."
The little boy replied with a chuckle.
"Awww, come on... You don't even know the way to the Post Office."
As he waited, he was approached by a man who asked,
"Son, can you tell me where the Post Office is?"
The little boy replied,
"Sure! Just go straight down this street a
Couple of blocks and turn to your right."
The man thanked the boy kindly and said,
"I'm the new pastor in town.
I'd like for you to come to church on Sunday.
I'll show you how to get to Heaven."
The little boy replied with a chuckle.
"Awww, come on... You don't even know the way to the Post Office."
Thursday, September 2, 2010
September 2
It's like one of those freaky Mayan calendar things or something. But, yes, it's true: Thursday Sept. 2, 2010, is being celebrated as "90210 Day." It's the one day this century that the date will line up perfectly with the famous California zip code.
Monday, August 23, 2010
August 25
Losing Our World's Languages
Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.
National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project (conducted in collaboration with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them.
Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.
National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project (conducted in collaboration with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them.
August 24
Dr. Suess coined the word “nerd.”
Dr. Suess invented the word nerdThe first documented use of the word Nerd is in the 1950 Dr. Seuss story, If I Ran the Zoo, in which a boy named Gerald McGrew made a large number of delightfully extravagant claims as to what he would do, if he were in charge at the zoo. Among these was that he would bring a creature known as a Nerd from the land of Ka-Troo. The accompanying illustration showed a grumpy humanoid with unruly hair and sideburns, wearing a black T-shirt. A fitting image, these days, for a nerd.
The term originated in the 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”. From the book:
“And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo. And Bring Back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”
According to the American Heritage Dictionary’s word history. Experts ‘maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”’
Dr. Suess invented the word nerdThe first documented use of the word Nerd is in the 1950 Dr. Seuss story, If I Ran the Zoo, in which a boy named Gerald McGrew made a large number of delightfully extravagant claims as to what he would do, if he were in charge at the zoo. Among these was that he would bring a creature known as a Nerd from the land of Ka-Troo. The accompanying illustration showed a grumpy humanoid with unruly hair and sideburns, wearing a black T-shirt. A fitting image, these days, for a nerd.
The term originated in the 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”. From the book:
“And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo. And Bring Back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”
According to the American Heritage Dictionary’s word history. Experts ‘maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”’
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