Good day, Henry here. On my walk this morning a couple of things came to mind. At the top of the street I saw a young woman desperately brushing out her hair. It looked like she was rushing, behind schedule. Then a boy galloped out of her house and clumped down the street. He couldn’t […]
“Look what you made me do!” From the time we’re tiny, this is a refrain that we often sing. Hello all, Henry back again today. Brothers and sisters, friends, parents, anybody, even the family dog can be blamed for making us do something we were not supposed to do. The key with this creative little […]
Good day all, Henry here. Well, Paris The Heiress is in jail and some of her fans are upset. I gather from the news reports that they are not the only ones. She too appears to be upset, resentful and several other of the more popular negative emotions. She seems to believe that this is […]
Steve here everyone. Well folks, everyone knows that parenting isn’t easy, but it must be especially had if you’re trying to raise this girl. A German woman, a resident of Braunschweig told her 9 year old daughter, also German and also a resident of Braunschweig, to clean her room. Because they were speaking German, this […]
Henry here. Someone told me years ago that the way to train an elephant to respect a chain starts in their childhood. The trainer chains a small elephant to a post and lets it struggle with this new reality. After a while it stops trying to get away or to break the chain. When the […]
Henry here. Outside of the kitchen, the warmest and most comfortable place on a farm is the cattle barn. The old fashioned farm with no central heating had one, possibly two warm rooms. The barn, on the other hand, with a thick layer of insulating hay in the loft, is warmed with the cattle’s body […]
I was surprised again to see pictures of people jumping off the wharf at Herring Cove into very cold ocean water in this years “Polar Plunge.” It just makes me shiver to think about it. Polar plunges are held yearly all over the continent. Do they do this is Europe and other countries as well? […]
Following last week’s fun and excitement with our little electrical fire (you can see my posts on it here and here), we had to move quite a bit of stuff around in the basement, so that the electrician could get in and work. In the process, we turned up quite a few odds and […]