We were at a small auction where the cast iron offerings were carefully separated from more common items. I didn’t think about this, until one Griswold 13 inch fry pan sold for $1300, and other items also sold for impressive prices.  I had never heard of collectible cast iron; what an eye opener!

Eeech.....Pickles are green, slimy, and horrid. If I ever become President,  they will immediately be declared an extra item that costs more, while cheese will be free for the asking. Don't even want pickles on the same plate as food.

Not trains: MONORAILS. They don’t restrict ground level movement like trains do, and don’t divide neighborhoods like trains do. One in Germany has been running for many years. In wild areas, animals can cross under a monorail with no danger and little disruption to either animal or machine. You think trains stop for…

Before I retired, I had gone to a joystick mouse, which I really liked. But 3 of the 4 remaining staff in our group had gone to the trackball side; the mapping software we used meant that we all did much more mousing than typing, every day, all day. Standard mice were just painful.

Before I retired, I had gone to a joystick mouse, which I really liked. But 3 of the 4 remaining staff in our group…

Here in California, which has voting by mail as routine for rural areas like the deserts, my husband and I don’t especially trust mailboxes either. So we deliver our “mail” votes IN PERSON to a polling location in the nearest city. We need to drive to this city sometimes anyway, for bigger shopping trips, so this is…

I have been telling folks for years that trees are better at a safe distance from houses. But, a couple of items about your wildlife: look up betterthanlogs.com , an outfit that makes what are essentially long tiles shaped and colored like logs. They’re a beautiful siding that goes over new or existing surfaces. You…

MONORAIL. Someone always says how expensive a monorail system would be: how could it be more than thirty billion??!? Not to mention tunnels will be more and more problematic if the ocean level rises as predicted. Other places have working monorail systems.

I would guess that if the loss of control was die to parts failure or bad maintenance, the driver could sue to recover the job and the court costs. And I recently found out that many areas have such a thing as ambulance insurance, separate from normal health insurance, with a reasonable yearly fee. Even for medical…

They don’t need to swallow string for it to be a hazard. I had a string hanging off the patio eaves as I removed some old sunshades. After I put the sunshades in the trash, I came back and heard a very weak meow - my cat had been playing with the string, and was hanging about two feet off the ground with one forepaw…