Leaves from wild grapevines will work as well, and are completely free. I watched some Middle Eastern women gathering leaves in a park and realized, “Of course!”

You do know that Monty Python routinely satirized everyone and everybody, don’t you? As it happens, I just re-watched the movie a couple days ago, and found it amusing but not hilarious - my reaction when it came out, too.

Sure — we can all go back to being seven years old and oblivious.

Survey of 1: I’ve lived with gas stoves for about 70 years. Still alive and breathing.

Or “see how it flies”.

But what does the dog say?

It’s the frosting for me -- I always try to get a piece with the biggest flower. 

Solaris.

No. 11: Take your computer and smartphone and throw them directly into the nearest lake.

Ditto 2 hours south of Rochester. Sky a yellowish gray and a wood smoke scent.

Not if you only do it for a defined period, like Christmas break.

Apparently he doesn’t know what a vasectomy is.

Any way you look at it, it’s very cool: seeing a cloud and its shadow on another planet.

Historical fiction, present tense. Nope.

I kept hoping that the youngest, wiseass daughter would thoroughly horrify her parents by becoming a Catholic, or a Wiccan, but no such luck.

I watch the streaming services via my computer, and it switched over without my having to log in. The only feature that didn’t seem to be functioning was that on the home page the images for the movies and TV didn’t display. However, when I clicked on one it played for me just fine. I’m relieved because when they…

The Blues Brothers cost $30 million and came out not long after Ordinary People ($6 million) and Breaking Away ($2 million). When I saw all those piles of crashed cop cars I wondered, Couldn’t they have made this for $28 million? Then we could have had another Breaking Away.

Oh, I don’t know... I’m 72, and Travolta isn’t an old man even if he’s 70. If they let Heigl look like a mature woman instead of a babe it won’t look all that inappropriate. Did I mention that I’ve had crushes on four different 45-year-old men recently?

We’ve had bird flu, swine flu, and around here there’s been EEE virus, which is (something) equine encephalitis, so why not monkeypox? I think “monkey” just sounds funny to some people.

When the final season of The Clone Wars was slated to begin, some viewers helpfully listed which of the 122 episodes of the previous 6 seasons were the most necessary for newbies to watch. I have seen all of Rebels, but it’s been a few years. Maybe just revisit the last season?