The flowers and plants always appreciate it when you fill up the antique watering can and treat them to some nice fresh water. You don't see these old metal cans so much anymore...everything is plastic.
There's a very handy product called Naval Jelly. It's not for your toast; it removes rust from your well-worn tools out in the shed. Keep 'em sharp and shiny!
Just six months ago, this Minion was working for the local utility company before getting his big break in the movies!
There is beauty in everything, even things you might be inclined to throw out. Pretty colors on pencil shavings are art in themselves, if you look at them.
Well. Back in the day, we used to stick our grubby paws in the coin return of pay telephones, which are now as rare as Halley's Comet. But this is the haul from the reject drawer of a Coinstar machine - that device that turns coins into folding money! I might have to look into them...
Pro tip for the next time anyone feels like a big night of backyard fireworks: make sure to douse the duds if you're going to toss them in a plastic trash cans.
We're all better off with more Calvin and Hobbes in our life.
Baltimore County has been dealing with a shortage of school bus drivers for several years. Perhaps if they had really cool orange antique 1940 Internationals to haul the kids around...
Speaking of citrus, this is a tangerine peel. If you take a large Mason jar, fill it with citrus peels, pour white distilled vinegar to the top of the jar, and seal it for a month, in 30 days you will have a citrus-based cleaner that's both totally orange and totally green! Put it in a spray bottle and away you go!
This PBS show about Brian Wilson is both a paean to his musical genius and a sad commentary about the sad effects of mind-alteration, which in Brian's case included physical and emotional abuse by his father, his own drug abuse, and ill-advised care from a $35,000 a month mental health professional with a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and some bizarre notions on patient care.
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