A BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY IN MARYLAND

The sun's rays woke me up early today.  Feeling good, after my morning chores, I dug in one of our plant boxes to make room for planting onion sets and radishes.

In my rush, I casually brushed against a plastic bucket and sliced a bit of my left hand.  I had forgotten that at my advanced age the skin is like tissue paper and easier to tear.

When I was involved with the Carroll County Aged and Disabled program, I invited the Baltimore Blind Society to give a talk and tell us what wonderful assistive devices were freely available.  

They brought a lot of freebies and one of them was a pair of gardening gloves, and I wondered why they gave those away.  Now I know.  As we grow older and our eyes grow dim, coverings are necessary to protect us from unnoticed sharp objects in our gardens.

And thank God for Band-Aids!

Language

Today's lecture by Professor McWorter covered the amazing conclusion by noted linguist Noam Chomsky that all children have an inborn capacity to use proper sentence syntax, no matter their native language. Part of being human.

WORDLE

I must revise my tip that one should have all common letters in the opening word.  What's the fun in that?

I now think that using uncommon-lettered words make your brain exercise more.  So what if it takes you all six tries to get the word.  At least you will have stretched your thinking muscles.

Some words to try:

clump

spasm

graph

money

chomp

Going to Pot

Today I read about Mike Tyson slugging an obnoxious fellow airplane traveler.  Mike says that Marijuana does not make you feisty and wasn't involved in the altercation.

Mr. Tyson now has a business selling items infused with "weed."

I don't pretend to be pythonic, but I do think that pot-laced products will take the place of alcohol for a "high" in days to come.

(pythonic = able to predict the future)

A Florida newly-wed recently hosted a post-nuptial party where almost all of the guests experienced vomiting, diarrhea or strange muscle contractions.

The illnesses were traced to the catered food.  Unbeknownst to the guests, the host had sprinkled Marijuana over all of the entrees!

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