Tip for Today

Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:11 PM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

OK.
IF you walk into your house and its been trashed.
DON’T GO IN.
Leave the house, get back in your car and drive to the police station and bring them back.
The bad peeps might still be in your house, so there is no reason to walk in on them.
I just wanted to give you the heads up.
No…this didn’t happen to me.  Its just I keep seeing this on TV.  I’m always yelling at the TV saying “Oh man….don’t go in the house!”.
They don’t listen, but I thought I could at least warn my kids.
Love,
Mom
Notes: Please friends. Don’t walk in that house. 

chocolate

Sent: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 6:03 PM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

So…there was just a commercial about Lindor Truffles.
I guess there is a reason why I’m not in the 2 hour delivery window with Amazon!
Yes, I would totally just order truffles and I’d wait up for the delivery!  I’m already in my jammies, so going out is not an option.
This chocolate deprivation is tough!
Love,
Mom
Notes: Can you IMAGINE living in a world where, within two hours, you could order chocolates and have them on your doorstep. I’m so interested it’s unreal. 

fire (the series)

On Wednesday January 4th I received a five series email about a fire in downtown Seymour. I have decided to paste each one here as a series. You’re welcome.


Sent: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:37 AM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Subject: fire

Email Body:

I know how news spreads….if you hear about buildings on 2nd street downtown Seymour on fire…its 2 buildings across the street…thankfully, not ours.

Sent: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:46 AM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Subject: fire2

Email Body:

OK.  I went outside and talked to the fire chief.  We’re on a first name basis because of the previous issues with Phil squatting in the Chatterbox.
The fire is actually from the back of the 2 buildings next to  “This Old Guitar” – however, smoke is billowing out the front windows. 2nd Street is blocked off, they just broke out the windows.
They are bringing their guitars over to put into the old Bevers space.

Sent: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:50 AM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Subject: fire3

Email Body:

OK.  The flames are not shooting out the back of the buildings with all the black smoke…I fear for ‘This Old Guitar’.

Sent:Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:17 AM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Subject: fire4

Email Body:

Update – the red building roof has collapsed and its out of control again.  Helicopters are flying around, so we’ll be on the 11:00 news.
Fire Trucks have come from North Vernon.
The Salvation Army is setting up in Bevers to distribute food, etc.
I just can’t figure out what’s in that red building that just won’t go out….3 hoses continually from 3 angles.
Insurance agent already let us know that we are covered for clean up of smoke damage, etc.
I’m starting to cough.
We turned off the furnace to keep fresh air out since its not so fresh.
We’re all getting a lot done here today.
Oh…the possible tenant is having a meeting next week to decide.

Sent: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:31 AM

Recipients: Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Subject: facebook

Email Body:

Someone is doing a live facebook feed from our 2nd floor window behind the elevator.  I didn’t know that when I started talking….then he turned the phone around, so I said ‘hi’.
So….if you see someone in that poncho K got me for Christmas on Facebook….its really me.

point to ponder

Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:10 PM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread? ………………………………..
Notes: I’m going to note this as my VERY favorite email I have ever received from my MIL. I was inspired by this and have googled for all of us when sliced bread did in fact come to fruition: Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. Fascinating. The Wright Brothers flew in 1903. I’m going to say that was pretty great and BEFORE sliced bread. Final answer.

selfie

Sent: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:36 PM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

Greetings!  I just read that deaths are on the rise from people taking ‘selfie’s’.

One of the biggest issues in the US is taking them on train tracks…I can only assume that a train came.
Anyway…evidently it signifies true love.  However, I think it signifies stupidity and trespassing, but that’s just me.
So….Please don’t take selfies on RR tracks or at the edge of cliffs.
Thank you so much!
Love you too much to lose you over something stupid!
Love,
Mom
Notes: First of all, who is taking a selfie on the train tracks? People, that is dumb. Quit it. Second, I am now, obviously, packing my selfie stick for Christmas. 

I made fire!

Sent: Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:31 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

Finally!  I knew it was going to rain tomorrow, so I decided to try once again to ignite the burn pile.  I gathered the sticks, limbs and tree parts from the back yard – including behind the barn.  Using my junk mail – I GOT IT GOING!  This is good news.

I really want it to burn down so I can scoop up all the ashes that are quite the pile on their own and distribute that elsewhere.
The neat thing is….some flowers started blooming right by the fire pile that I didn’t plant – but they have expanded and they’re so fun!  They are daisy-like.  I am horrible with flower names, but NO, they aren’t weeds.
I had already walked Lillie, so I decided to get a jump on the new leaves and made 4 passes along the driveway – then…it started sprinkling.
Of course it did…go back to the headline….I finally get the fire going, and it starts raining.
Please send willpower my way.  I fixed dinner, but the freezer is calling me to eat the last ‘Dark Chocolate Carmel Magnum Ice Cream Bar’.   I already ate the other on Sunday and Monday.
I have to weigh in at the doctor tomorrow, so I REALLY can’t have the ice cream!
Love,
Mom
Notes: Follow up email let me know she ate the ice cream. For those of you that didn’t see that coming – you lose a point.

hoodie

Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:10 PM

Recipients: Son, Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

OK.  I read an article that this company makes the best hoodie.  Ever.

Go to American-Giant.com.  All the clothes is made in the USA, which you know is a big plus for me.
So…if there is anything there that you might be interested in for a Christmas gift – please let me know!
And….be rather specific!!
Thanks!
Mom
Notes: Does anyone have a hoodie from there? I’m wildly curious if these are, in fact, the best hoodie EVER. 

YIKES!

Sent: Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:59 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

Stephen Colbert just threw unicorns under the bus!!

this is an issue…..
Notes: No idea where Steven Colbert did this, what the context is, or if it’s a current event or something from the past.
But this does bring our unicorn count to SIX!

grab bag

Sent: Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:15 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-In-Law

Email Body:

So, after mowing and collecting piles of sticks, I fixed the Blue Apron Cod sandwiches and ate them both – it was my first meal of the day at 5pm and cod doesn’t re-heat well.

For everyone that yucked it up when K found the chick peas on the counter 6 inches from the stove top when I searched high and low for the tiny container on my last Blue Apron meal, I have 2 comments:
1.  I was drinking wine at the time (2 whole glasses) which is approximately  1.5 glasses over my limit, and
2.  I confused them with capers….capers come is a SMALL container, not an entire can like the chick peas.  I had capers tonight which proved my point – they came in one of those tiny containers.
Its an honest mistake given that I had not cooked with EITHER of them EVER before Blue Apron.  So, I deserve a break on that bonehead move.
While I was cooking, I turned on the 2 Star Trek Movie.  I figured out why I like to watch it:
  • I like the comraderie of the characters and their witty comments
  • Chris Pine is easy on the eyes!!!
So after all that….I collected my piles of sticks, delivered them to the burn pile, edged the driveway and sidewalk, dug up the dirt around the Spruce tree that Lillie has dug holes in and put up the landscaping blocks around half of it.  After the heavy lifting, I was pretty much shot.
The Cubs lost again….swinging at crappy pitches.
Somewhere in there today, I watched a bit of the English Premiere soccer match between Manchester United and Bolivia.  I can see why Europe has never caught on with our obsession with Football and Baseball….soccer has 100% action – shirt pulling, pants pulling, kicking, screaming – rare stoppage of play.  Just an observation after watching them side by side.
Enough wisdom for one day.
Love,
Mom
Notes: She’s right. Chris Pine is, in fact, easy on the eyes.