What made you smile today?

i love scalloped potatoes!

I think they beat potato chips hands down.

both hands!

(hey, look, we agree..)

It struck me that having brand names goes against the simple tradition of the Amish. They are subterfuges really. It's a complex business and many experts are engaged in the black art of thinking them up. Even our given names are intended to present us to the world in a certain way. As are our usernames only the moreso as we choose them ourselves.

What is one to think of someone who styles herself Calamity Jane? I know what my first thought was of blueveinedthrobber. Which turned out incorrect. And The Pentacle Queen--what might one think with that.

The jelly on an Amish stall should have a white label on the jar with "Strawberry" or "Raspberry" written on it with a felt tip. And be on the Jelly rack. With a trade name one would have to have the labels printed presumably using modern technology.

Perhaps it was not a genuine Amish stall Thomas encountered. There does seem to be a compromise with the evil capitalist business world.

You're reading way much into labels, spendius - and our names for that matter. Mine was chosen at the spur of the moment, I am certainly no pioneer woman, but I liked what she stood for.

Yeah, I chose mine after several italian food names were declined; it took perhaps 30 seconds. That was on Abuzz/NYTimes, and I kept the name for here. Long have I rued the choice, but, hey.

Welcome back - have you recently been on a trip home?

Aw gee Cal!! And I thought you rode in in a cloud of dust, lassooed a bull steer to the ground with its horns, branded it and then shot out all the cups and saucers on the Welsh dresser whoopin' and a hollerin' like a demented banshee.

I'm gutted.

How 'd Jane be better off by mutilating the crockery, with gunfire ?
What point 'd be served by doing THAT??

Yes, osso, thank you for the welcome! I went to see family and also visited
Berlin (in the rain)...it was fun nonetheless.

Tell us more, this thread or elsewhere, if you wish.

I have a few photos, I'll put in my picture thread...

Good.

I've been bad, I can't upload my california pics (too dumb to believe), await yours.

spent the day being lazy. Took a long bike ride than lounged at the pool with BPJR and my oldest daughter. Then made steaks. Put my cell phone away. Great day.

i missed my zone cut in the mile swim by 2 seconds!
TWO SECONDS!!!
NOOOO!!!
(.15 second per lap!)

that did not make me smile...

Missed by fifteen hundredths of a second per lap? Man, that's gotta hurt.
Tell me what a "zone cut" is. I presume it's got something to do with team
or tournament qualifying time.

New running shoes!
The soles were peeling off my current shoes.

zones is basically a state wide competition. the zone cut is the time required for my members of my age group to qualify. SO CLOSE!!!

Oh, soooo close.