Rummaging through some photos on my picture archive, I came across this picture, which I took with my cell phone this past January when I ran across some mugs for sale in my local grocery store.
There were various types of mugs, all of the “spring is full of flowers” and “happiness is a teddy bear” ilk, except this one, which said: Men who call women “sweetheart”, “baby”, or “honey” should have their little tiny peckers cut off.
I thought it was sort of funny, as it was obvious that no one there knew what it meant.
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We had a late-April snow storm which accumulated a few inches.

But by the afternoon it was virtually all gone.

By the next day we were already taking walks around the lake.
And by the next day, we were mowing the lawn....

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In a previous post I'd noted that something called “blue chux” (AKA “disposable pads”) are a wonderful gift for new parents, who despite being told numerous times do not fully appreciate how much and from how many places babies can leak and otherwise expel bodily fluids.
Recently, I'd sent a case of them to a friend who'd just had a baby, and a month later he wrote me: By the way, the disposable waterproof sheets are, by far, the most useful baby gift. Thank you thank you for sending them. I didn't know that babies are capable of projectile pooping and mischievous peeing.
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This ranks right up there with tobacco subsidies for “most selfish, asinine government”.
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) wants to prohibit the National Weather Service from releasing their weather data to the public. Note that the National Weather Service is paid for by public tax monies -- that is, paid for by the people whose access Sen. Santorum wants to block.
So, why does Sen. Santorum want to ban the public release of taxpayer-funded weather data? Quoting the senator (as seen in, among other places, an article on the issue), he says: “NOAA's actions threaten the continued success of the commercial weather industry,” Santorum said [...]
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Going through some photos from my recent trip to Ohio, I came across this cute photo of a Mommy goose leading her babies to get some corn from Anthony and me. (Only six of the eleven are hers -- she stole the rest from two other couples.) This was at the lake behind my folks' place.
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Congratulations to my brother Mike and his wife on the birth of their first child, a daughter Grace Elizabeth Friedl (May 28). An additional joy is that its the first granddaughter on either side (and now I'm an uncle!)
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