A little coolish.. 50 to 60-ish, but sunny and nice. Elaine's daffodils are taking their own sweet time and are not yet ready to bloom. When she bought them, they produced pink flowers,. but, the next year, some yellow flowers showed up, and some more the next year. We're hoping that there will still be some pink ones this year.
Even with the nice weather, there is still cause to be sad (besides the world situation).. one of the problems of living in a Continuing Care Retirement Community, there is a high death count because most of the residents are aged 60 to over 100. No young folks to lower the average.
For instance, today, a very nice lady passed away while taking a nap. She was an accomplished piano and organ player and was one of the few people to send me birthday cards. Her husband is a very nice person too. I hope he can survive her passing. I know how it feels to lose a beloved spouse after long years of marriage. R.I.P.
Vocabulary
I learned some new words this week. I thought that I already knew about two of them, but apparently not:
o roti - Bread from India (I hope it's fresh)
o ounce - Snow leopard of Asia (how much does one weigh?)
o dystopian - The opposite of utopian. It could be used to describe most of the Science Fiction universes I read about when I was hooked on that literary genre.
o Beth March - as combined, not a vocabulary word.. just a word that messed me up in a cryptic puzzle today. Yes, I know it now... its the name of one of the Little Women.
Modern Dress Style
I probably mentioned some of this before. The Kiplinger Personal Finance Advisor recently wrote about new retail fashion trends that I thought were interesting.
For Women: Sliplike dresses .. like they wore in the 1920's
Clothes that look like pajamas.
Crop Tops... what ever that means.
For Men: Crumpled suits .. hey, that's the way my suits look.. at least when they are on me.
Wrinkled shirts .. hey, that's also the way I wear my shirts.. I gave up on getting my shirts done up at the cleaners.. in fact, I think I took about 10 shirts in to be done early last year and forgot about them. Good riddance.
Sheer shirts.. wait a minute, who the hell would like to see my nipples?
The Donald Again
Saqib Bhatti, a Moslem American, wrote about Mr. Trump in the April 2016 issue of In These Times. I would like to quote her if I might.
"It has been said that when Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he really means 'Make America white again.' I don't think that's true, because 'white' is too inclusive a term for Trump's America. Trump has already told us he doesn't want Muslims in his courntry. He's talking about getting Mexicans to build a wall to keep themselves out. He is openly flirting with the Ku Klux Klan. It would be an understatement to say that Trump is unwelcoming of people of color. But Trump's America also has no place for white people who happen to be Jewish or LGBTQ. It doesn't value white women except as objects."
What do you think?
Weird Trivia
I purchased a book at BJ's the other night. It's title is The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia. It's chock full of interesting stuff. While I cannot quote the book because of copyright issues, I don't see why I can't comment on my take on things that trigger my brain to push some new synapses into play.
(Incidentally, speaking of synapses, I just received a package from the Great Courses. In that package were two CD courses about the human brain. As I do with all of my Great Courses material, I will be listening to the lectures as I drive around to all those doctors who are getting rich from me and Medicare.)
Cheese: I learned that the Pilgrims had a store of cheeses aboard the Mayflower. I knew that they brewed their own beer on board. Maybe they had some cows along for the ride. That way they could have fresh milk and cheese when they wanted it. However, I don't think they kept any living things on the ship except for humans and their rat companions. I could be wrong.
(Speaking of the Pilgrims, I keep boring people with the fact that my family is related to almost all of the Pilgrims living in Plymouth, Massachusetts. That is not so amazing because in those days, people tended to stay in one area for their whole lives, and Plymouth is only 30 miles away from my home town of New Bedford.. and even closer to the Vaughan's old homesteads in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.)
Rubber Duckies: I learned that this bath bird had its debut over 200 years ago. (I began collecting rubber duckies of all kinds about 40 years ago. I amassed a lot of those funny little birds. Some were really not that little, most were yellow, and all were funny. It really was crowded when I took a bath, let me tell you! Anyway, when Elaine and I decided to move to this CCRC, we learned that there would be only one way to get the dirt off of our bodies.. and that was in a shower. So.. bye bye, Rubber Duckies! Sad!)
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I must bid you adieu.
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