Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on B.C.

   I asked my son about this, so he turned on my Super Nintendo console and played one of the many Mario Bros. games that are pre-loaded on it. One of these days I might actually play the game myself. I’m better with Atari games.

2. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The last 2 times I had surgery it was the surgeon who drew on me with a Sharpie while I was still awake.

3. 5 days ago on Baby Blues

   Except for your last sentence, that was my experience too. To this day I hate doing dishes by hand.

4. 6 days ago on Pickles

   Being “woke” does not preclude being nice to your loved ones and others, in fact it encourages it. It’s more about the service being done voluntarily and not as a requirement.

5. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I don’t drink coffee myself, but I have gifted the combo machine to two members of my family, along with a refillable K cup. They appreciated it.

6. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I wonder how often it is set off by birds. My motion-sensor doorbell is occasionally set off by birds flying in front of it.

7. 11 days ago on Garfield

   There is a clump of milkweed growing down by the creek on my property and another by the back fenceline. I instructed my children to let them alone when they are doing yardwork for me. I have yet to see any butterflies, but then I don’t go out much in this heat.

   As for bees, they love the flowers in my son’s pumpkin patch. My son says they are very active in the early morning while it is still cool.

8. 12 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I still need cash to pay my children and grandchildren to do those small jobs I can no longer do for myself. And also to put in Christmas and birthday envelopes. Only businesses are set up to take plastic.

9. 13 days ago on Doonesbury

   I was quartermaster of my local VFW post for 8 years. Contrary to popular belief, no one wants to tell their war stories, not even to other people who were there.

10. 15 days ago on Doonesbury

    Both sides of my mother’s family used to have family reunions every year when I was growing up. My siblings and I looked forward to these gatherings because there were so many good cooks in the family. After the meal the kids would run off to play and the adults would have a “business” meeting. At the meetings the family history would be discussed and grandma would take notes in shorthand. Then she would transcribe the notes into hardbound books. These books survive and are a wonderful source of history for our family.