Drifting through life

  I cry everytime I see the reindeer crying for Santa and again when the star appears in the sky.

Use-by Dates: Are they really as necessary as we've been led to believe? It's my opinion that only pre-packaged raw meats, dairy products and breads need a clearly visible use by date. On everything else, I'd prefer to see a "packed on" date. That way we could instantly see how old the things we are buying actually are.  Many things are filled with preservatives, natural or otherwise, and have a long shelf life. So buying something labelled "use by June 2011, doesn't really give any indication that the item was canned (or jarred or bottled) way back in, oh, let's say 2005, or earlier. I do think that things containing lots of preservative such as sugar, (jams for instance), don't really need a "use by" or even a "best by" date at all. Everyone knows these things will last unopened for quite a while, and once they are opened, who keeps them for more than a month anyway? What brought this subject to mind was an old article I

 Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also occasionally been joining us. a few too many today, but I don't think you'll mind, get a cuppa and settle into your favourite chair: a few knick-knacks you have't seen yet: a lion and his cub, when I ordered this I forgot to check the dimensions and he is quite a bit larger than I expected, 23cm x 14cm, that's 9 inches long and 5 1/2 inches high a "good luck" troll I bought way back in 1987-8, he used to have a tiny green shirt instead of the bl

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Alex J. Cavanaugh and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:   1. sword 2. hogwash 3. cactus 4. ghost 5. silver 6. rivers  and/or:  1. spirits 2. potato 3. nincompoop 4. indigo 5. gemstones 6. learning Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: mint green Here is my story: Almost the entire family was at the reunion to celebrate great-grandpa Claude’s one hundredth birthday. The old man was pretty spry for his age, though his mind did tend to wander back in time now and again. He

I think I have only a couple of readers who would remember these posts from when I first began, so I thought I'd repost a few, maybe one a week. But finding them is a bit of a problem, the best way to search is by the title I used and I can't remember them.  Anyway, this one is from July 2010 A hobby of mine is painting. Painting furniture to be exact. (I can't paint pictures) I love colour and since I live in a rented unit and can't paint walls, I paint furniture. Like this secondhand chest of drawers and the new mirror I bought to sit on it. This "ye olde" kitchen cabinet was snapped up at a garage sale for only $50, it was a pale beige colour. We, (well, he) sanded for hours, some paint stripper was involved, then we chose colours. Well I chose colours.  He wanted the whole thing done in pale blue. Ha Ha. Silly man. She who pays for the paint gets to choose the colours. These colours are all represented in the floral pattern of my kitchen curtains, so I th

  Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also occasionally been joining us. a really nice fence beside the bus stop where I catch a bus to visit the twins my local shopping centre has its Christmas decorations up, this is a ceiling wreath festoons? banners? the same old decorations but the tree looks better this year, I think they added more white baubles I finally painted the plain wooden stool that lives in the bedroom I found a can of paint in the shed labelled "Riviera Blue" and shook it, heard a litt