dreaming about tomatoes while eating green onions

dreaming about tomatoes while eating green onions

I love beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes with green onions and fresh tomatoes. I guess that makes me even more ‘country’ than some. While I don’t have fresh tomatoes yet, Mr. Pesky is working on that and did bring green onions!

The Peskies

How can 2 people who grew up the same be so different?

My favorite brother and I grew up with the same two parents in the same household. We had the same Nanny and we both spent a whole lot of time with her. But if I told him we were having beans and cornbread for dinner — he’d drive through McDonalds on his way here.

For him, bean soup from St. Elmo’s would be great — just not the traditional beans with cornbread. 🙄

Ben’s not a whole lot different than Scott when it comes to food — and he grew up on fish sticks, french fries, and “brown meat” (what he called roast). I’m not saying I don’t like things I might not have had when growing up… I’m a HUGE fan of Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese food. What’s different is I still like the old time home cooking food I had as a kid too.

What about you? Ever think how your siblings differ from you on the craziest things?

TIL (Today I Learned): Bean Soup is on the U.S Senate’s restaurant menu.


i had an earworm today but now it’s gone

i had an earworm today but now it’s gone

I know you’ve had earworms too — it happens to everyone at one time or another. It’s the term given to “that song” you can’t get out of your head. The one you listen to… then start singing along… and hours later you’re still singing it over and over in your head. Scientists have actually investigated (and developed a mathematical formula) to explain the phenomenon.

One 70’s song was named the most addictive earworm song of all time.

I can promise you it was in my ear the year I graduated, and it still gets in there from time to time. And now that I’m about to tell you, I’m singing it… and when you read the song title, you’ll likely get the earworm too…

QUEEN — “WE WILL ROCK YOU”
Buddy, you’re an old man, poor man
Pleading with your eyes, gonna make you some peace someday
You got mud on your face, big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place

It might even remind you of the iconic Pepsi commercial from 2015 with Pink, Beyonce and Brittany Spears.

What’s rockin’ round here?

Deck building…

And Diablo IV…

And finally… happy heavenly birthday to my Dad. ❤️

TIL (Today I Learned): Shaquille O’Neal was offered and declined the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile.


if i didn’t need my computer for work, i would only use it for gaming

if i didn’t need my computer for work, i would only use it for gaming

Upon going through email this morning, I was left feeling anxious. The word ‘anxious’ isn’t really right, but I don’t have a better word. Not scared as in frightened… just… ugh!

Headlines…

  1. FTC hits Amazon with $25 million fine for violating child privacy with Alexa voice assistant.
  2. Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes. (Basically a pay to play measure to direct money to media instead of big tech — I think this sucks no matter which way the bill goes.)
  3. AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms. (Platforms remove graphic videos, often using artificial intelligence – but footage that may help prosecutions can be taken down without being archived.)
  4. FTC Orders Ring to Pay $5.8 Million in Refunds For Surveilling Customers, Failing to Stop Hackers. (Hackers harassed victims, livestreamed video, viewed profiles, etc. and Ring didn’t stop it — PLUS their employees also accessed consumer content without consent.)
  5. YouTube’s recommendations are leading kids to gun videos, report says: Researchers posing as 9-year-old were flooded with gun-related content.

And locally…

State Representative, Jim Lucas, of Seymour, was arrested for OWI — and leaving the scene of an accident. He’s a Republican so the Democrats are pulling out every single Republican name they can think of on social media to tie to his crime. I’ve never been a fan of his (I’ve read heated exchanges between him and another FB friend where he was rude and ugly) but c’mon, people.

Not willing to throw my thoughts out to social media — I’ll just sit here waiting to see if I can get honeysuckle I picked to take root…

And play Diablo 4 when it goes live tonight at 7:00 PM ET. 🙂

TIL (Today I Learned): The acronym “R.I.P.” has been engraved on tombstones since at least the fifth century. “Rest in Peace” is the English translation of a Latin phrase with the same acronym.


from the 1400’s to today – and it works!

from the 1400’s to today – and it works!

First, let us today remember and honor the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. As we reflect on veterans and military personnel who are deceased, let’s also be thankful for the freedoms we have because of their sacrifices. ❤️

Random tip that I have to share…

Over 2 years ago, a piece of Teddy Bear’s furniture impaled my finger as I was dusting. I’m not talking about a little splinter… I’m talking about a PLANK of wood. I pulled out the big part immediately, but my darned finger has been sore off and on ever since then. There had to be some of that wood left in there!

The process is always the same: a large callous builds up and I pick at it, try to dig out a splinter, trim off all the calloused skin, and even use an emery board to sand the sucker down. A month or so later, the process is repeated. So Mr. Pesky told me I needed to put “drawing salve” on it. I thought he was crazy. I figured it was nothing more than a folk remedy.

prid drawing salve

Dermatologists says it’s BS — vets say it works. The vets are right!

Ichthammol, the active ingredient in drawing salve, dates back to the 1400’s and is made from sulfonated shale oil. It’s been vets’ go-to advice for treating abscesses on the bottom of horses’ feet for years. I put it on my finger — that was red and swollen all the way around to the nail — for 4 nights covered with a Band-Aid.

Last night, I picked out that 2 year-old splinter that was still about 1/4 inch long.

Yes, I took a photo. No, I’m not going to share it. Instead, I’ll share a couple photos from our late lunch yesterday.

Just one more thing — DON’T USE BLACK DRAWING SALVE!

Black drawing salve is used for treating skin cancer and has been known to result in death. Black salve is made from different chemicals (including zinc chloride and sanguinarine) and kills skin cells indiscriminately.

TIL (Today I Learned): The Jim twins were separated at birth and reunited at age 39. Both had married and divorced someone named Linda, were currently married to a Betty, had sons named James Allan, had dogs named Toy, drove the same car, had jobs in security, and regularly vacationed at the same beach in Florida. 😯


why you shouldn’t use meth to treat cancer

why you shouldn’t use meth to treat cancer

Local sheriff’s departments share photos of new inmates on Facebook. I don’t know if other counties across the US do it, but Scott County shares arrests frequently… Jackson County not as often, but they still do it sometimes.

Of course, arrests with photos are available on law enforcement websites for every jurisdiction, but you have to actively go to each city/county’s URL to see them. Sharing on FB puts it out there on everyone’s feed and attracts a whole lot attention.

Not gonna’ lie, I struggle with how I feel about this.

First, if the arrest is of an addict, sharing the photo shames the family… not the one arrested. What good does that do, really? On the other hand, when arrests are shared, I always look to see if they are of someone I know. That’s human nature.

Is it good to have the suffering of others served to us when we’re scrolling through FB to read the things shared by friends and family? I don’t think so. But… if I see my contractor has a prior for murder — or that someone I was going to hire to do work in my home was charged with theft — then is it a good thing? Yah, probably.

There are always 2 sides.

I agree with both sides.

The world is saturated with information. Some good… but mostly bad. The media saying, “if it bleeds, it leads” is so true, isn’t it?

What’s your opinion?

Add 3-minutes every single day for 30 days.

What if we unplugged from social media and information saturation for 3 minutes today? And what if we added another 3 minutes tomorrow… and continued this for 30 days?

At the end of that 30 days, every day forward we’d be cutting out one hour and a half of mindless negativity that penetrates our brains. Even more important… every day, we could add 1.5 hours of doing something that adds joy to our lives.

Who’s with me on this? 🙂

TIL (Today I Learned): Graying is a sign of active hair growth. Gray hair is also both thicker and faster growing than pigmented hair.