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Books: Iowa Curiosities

November 25, 2008 | Books,Iowa

I just finished reading Iowa Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff by Dan Coffey and Eric Jones with Berit Thorkelson.

The book is packed with lots of interesting information, but one of the things that jumped out at me was a mule named Becky. Now, when Tracy Thompson mentioned that her grandfather had a mule named Becky, I thought, “Hey! What kind of name is that for a mule?!?” Turns out, Becky seems to be a popular name for mules. Sigh.

Hey, I’m as stubborn as the next Becky, but does this one have to show me up by serving in a war? (She’s buried in a mule cemetery at Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.)

Oh well. The book is fun and interesting, and it makes me want to explore … maybe when it warms up a little.

Posted by Becky @ 6:57 pm | Comments  

Auto executives plan to carpool to D.C.

November 24, 2008 | Airlines,D.C.,Dignitary visits,Economics,Iraq,Politics,Traveling

You know what that means.

Road trip!

Think they’ll blog about it? And take pictures of the Kum & Go? And pick up other execs along the way?

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., was the one who asked the executives if they flew commercial to Washington, D.C. None had.

I suppose Sherman had a decent question. So when will he get his D.C. colleagues to start road-trippin’ in and out of the city? Or maybe he’ll convince them to hitchhike when they go on their PR junkets to Iraq.

Posted by Becky @ 7:23 pm | 2 Comments  

Books: Touch and Go

Books

Has it really been a year since Studs Terkel published his memoir (the one I haven’t read yet)? Amid frantic events and our tumbling descent in a handbasket, Terkel died peacefully at home in Chicago on Halloween at 96. At least it wasn’t the curiosity that got him.

Posted by Becky @ 1:04 am | 1 Comment  

I just realized where “Yes We Can” comes from

November 12, 2008 | 2008 campaign,Barack Obama,PR,Television

“Can we fix it?”

Yes, we can!

(Hmm. Think someone fell asleep while the kids watched Bob the Builder … and a new slogan was stolen born?)

So … who will make up the new cabinet? Shall we start with Scoop, Muck and Dizzy?

Posted by Becky @ 6:16 pm | 3 Comments  

Seeing snow: It’s all a matter of perspective

November 7, 2008 | Family,Stuff,Weather

Today’s weather in Tampa: Sunny, high of 80 degrees, low of 61 degrees, current temperature 73 degrees, feels like 75 degrees

Today’s weather here: Snow, high of 36 degrees, low of 29 degrees, current temperature 32 degrees, feels like 32 degrees

40-year-old: “What have we done?”

6-year-old: “This is the BEST DAY EVER!”

Posted by Becky @ 12:11 pm | Comments  

It’s like buttah

November 6, 2008 | 2008 campaign,Afghanistan,Apples,Barack Obama,Economics,Iraq,Politics,PR,U.S. government

Well, not exactly buttah. I cheated and didn’t use a strainer or food grinder, so my apple butter is lumpy. But, hey, it’s apple butter. I got fancy yesterday and used the food grinder on the applesauce. It’s more like buttah than the apple butter. Oh well.

I heard someone on election night say that everyone will remember exactly where they were when Barack Obama was elected president. Yep. I was at home. Making apple butter.

Congratulations, President-elect Obama, on your victory.

You said you need my help.

Yes, you do.

You said you will be my president too.

Yes, you will.

You said you hear my voice.

I’d love to agree with that, but you have shown me that you hear only what you want to hear. So, while I have a whole lot of other things I could say, I’ll leave it at this for now:

Well done. And good luck.

Posted by Becky @ 9:16 pm | 2 Comments  



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