Just Another of Life's Disappointments:

My expectation was for generous streaks of black raspberry running through a creamy ice cream base, as did the Raspberry Royal flavor of yore. In reality, this looks and tastes like purple mud. Alas!

The Straggler

Anyone want to adopt a baby mouse?

And the Fauna...

   The  mower was housed elsewhere over the winter, so I had taken the opportunity to make the shed as clean and clear as possible. I'd sprayed, put down mothballs, different soaps, fabric softener sheets, rodent-deterrent packs, mousetraps and yes, poison, even though its use is to be restricted a distance from the house.
   The mower is now back, in use and in the shed, so the area is not as open to viewing what may lie inside. I saw a clump of hay in the corner near the door and scraped it outside  with  a shovel. About half a dozen baby mice, probably about a week and a half old, scrambled out from their disturbed nest.I stood there, shovel in hand, and realized I could dispatch several of them, but I didn't do so. I noticed shreds of the mouse poison/deterrent packages were interwoven in their nesting material. Oh, ticks, fleas, plague.

 

Absent Words:

:: To those who live alone;
          Good Morning
          Good Night
          "Let's...
          " Should we...
          " Do you want to...
           "Maybe we should...
          "Did you hear that.. or "read  that...
          " Could you please...
          "Have you seen...
          "What do you think of...
          "Are you feeling.,..
          "Hey, what about we...

So, Blog, let me tell you about today...

   I was in Walgreen's for a few things, and approached  a register, keeping my COVID distance, where a woman was checking out. I don't know how long she'd been there, but she turned and apologized for holding me up. No problem for me, I told her. Besides the stuff she had on the counter, there were 3 cases of 24-pack water on the floor by her feet. When she concluded the sale at the register, she placed the bag with her purchases on top of the stack of the 3 cases of water, bent over, lifted them from the floor and carried them out the door.
     Well, I'm using a cart for my few purchases I told the cashier. She said, "And we're supposed to be taking care of our bodies. Just think what she's doing to her back."
       BTW Walgreen's sale price for 24-count Poland Spring is 3 cases for $10.

P.U.S.H Irony

P.U.S.H.  Persons United for Sustainable Housing
   And he was pushed.

Editing Nightmare

    It's bad enough that "proper grammar" now endorses the use of a plural antecedent to a singular noun, as in "The person fell and hit their head."  OK, I get it. And I know sometimes that the deceased sometimes pre-write their own obituaries.(Of course they'd be pre-written, wouldn't they?) I have not, but I know some who have done so. I don't know  who wrote the obit in today's paper, but I hope they don't say in mine:  "She was superseded by her parents."
       Supersede---predecease----who cares?