I was just reading an article on the Time.com website about “what makes you eat more food” and was surprised to read that one of the things that makes you eat more food in restaurants is that most restaurants turn their thermometers to cooler temperatures. When the body is cold, a natural reaction to warm up is to eat more food. So the restaurants are trying to get you to eat more food by making their customers cold!

I remember as a child my Dad showed me how to pull apart a honeysuckle so I could lick the drop of nectar from it.  I used to enjoy doing that a lot as a kid.  I haven’t done that this year yet, but I did do it last year when I was showing my own kids how to do it.  I was disappointed by their lack of enthusiasm for what I was showing them!  Oh well, maybe when I have grandchildren they will enjoy doing it with me!

Then I went to Home Depot to get a couple of rakes for my overdue yard work and went to the self checkout. The rakes both had the bar codes on them, but the second one would not scan. the checkout display said to wait for assistance. I waited and waited and even with 4 idle workers milling about, no one came to help me. So I got a little ticked off and loudly asked “Where’s my assistance?” the clerk came and tried to scan the rake, but it didn’t work. So he went somewhere else and left me standing there along with a growing line of other impatient customers. When he came back he tried to scan it one more time. It still didn’t work. He leaned toward me and said softly, “I’m not going to charge you for this rake. It’s not your fault the scan won’t work and I’m sorry you’ve had to wait so long.” He smiled and handed me the rake – another freebie!

The weatherman says that it will only be a few flakes if it happens at all, so chances are that I’ll sleep through the whole thing and by the time I wake up in the morning it will have melted. Just as well; I’m in no hurry to see snow!

I tend to avoid burning them, though for a couple of reasons.  One reason is that a lot of candles make a mess with their wax dripping all over the place.  Another reason is that some candles just burn down the middle of the candle and then seem to drown themselves in a puddle of melted wax.  And still another is that a lot of the scented candles make my nose run and eyes water and give me a headache!  Not knowing exactly what is in the candles makes me suspect that if I made my own I could control all of that.

I was looking at their website just now and to be perfectly honest with you the multitude of services that they provide simply amazed me.   I was just clicking on links for what seemed to be forever, and each new service I learned about seemed even better than the last!  I can see how this company could be a huge benefit to many organizations.  It’s hard for me to really fathom how a company can offer so many services.

One of the things that really impressed me was that it became fairly obvious that this company’s services would be valuable in a businesses attempt to reduce their carbon footprint.  Reduction of paperwork is a good goal, and is made easier with their services.  In this day and age of technological advances coming fast and furious, ten years is a birthday worth celebrating and self-congratulations.

Don’t get me wrong, as much as I love horses I don’t want to go back to the days where horses were our mode of transportation!  What I don’t like about cars and trucks is that for many of them there is a built in obsolescence that forces the owners to buy new cars or trucks because they wear out quickly!  Gone are the days where they lasted a good long time!  And I don’t like how many of them are status symbols.  I was talking to my neighbor yesterday about his son and he told me that his son was looking for a ferrari review to help make up his mind what kind of car to buy.

As for me, cars that expensive are simply a form of gluttony!  Flaunting wealth just seems so tasteless to me!  I don’t understand why someone needs to buy a vehicle that costs that much money when they could get a perfectly good vehicle like a ford flex or acura and have plenty of money left over to spread around and help some charitable organization to get closer to their goals.