Month: January 2020

Matchbook from the defunct Cookbook Diner
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The pink cookbook?

   January 31, 2020  0 Comments on The pink cookbook?

Matches from the long-gone Cook Book restaurant of Campbell, California, featuring “500 types of Omelettes”. I get decision fatigue just…

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Our new humidifier is swell!

   January 30, 2020  0 Comments on Our new humidifier is swell!

I’m very pleased with our new Homedics “TotalComfort UltrasonicHumidifier” with warm and cool mist. Here are the features, pros, and…

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It certainly is well fed!

   January 25, 2020  0 Comments on It certainly is well fed!

I love the whole “jackalope” thing, mythical creatures often featured in tourist-trap postcards of earlier times. This one does not…

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Grueling life on the farm pre-Netflix

   January 22, 2020  0 Comments on Grueling life on the farm pre-Netflix

This guy looks like he is thinking about going into his Uncle Marv’s Cheese business. The number of horse heads…

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That’s not how any of this works!

   January 17, 2020  0 Comments on That’s not how any of this works!

There is so much wrong with this postcard. Google translate only muddied the water; “One glass, three glasses hello damage!”…

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Six feet under in sunny Florida

   January 14, 2020  0 Comments on Six feet under in sunny Florida

If it wasn’t for the airfare to haul my corpse all the way to Florida, I would take them up…

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Good thing it’s not Lawn Darts.

   January 11, 2020  0 Comments on Good thing it’s not Lawn Darts.

So apparently there exists a game called lawn bowling. It is played with a ball about the diameter of a…

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It has frozen over

   January 10, 2020  0 Comments on It has frozen over

In the 1800’s, if the (lake?) froze over, the folks who could afford it took the time to head out…

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Buzzing the lock

   January 8, 2020  0 Comments on Buzzing the lock

“What do you want to do today, Orville?” “Oh, I dunno. How about we buzz the lock? What could go…

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The Treachery of Greeting Cards

   January 7, 2020  0 Comments on The Treachery of Greeting Cards

I almost bought this anniversary card for Teresa (The selection was limited at Target) but upon further rumination, I suspect that this popsicle card would cause her to say, “What are you trying to say? Are you trying to say I have a stick up my ass???”