@KarenSohne The blackbirds do no real harm. Just make me jump because they come at you from behind and above.

It was a good year for bicycling around my block
2,631 Miles
396 miles above my yearly average
0 miles Jan-Mar
234 gnats consumed (+/- 7)
0 flat tires
1 bee in my bonnet (or wasp?)
7 helmet strikes from nesting blackbirds
3 broken spokes (fat old man)
0 chipmunks squashed
1 conference with the asphalt
0 bandages needed
0 broken bones

"The motion of my blood no longer keeps time with the tumult of the world."
— Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 9 June 1793

I think of this from time to time
It would have been good advice to follow when I was young
The full letter here
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-26-02-0219

@SSNBubblehead Oh my!
Perhaps I wouldn't play at all.

I'd play pickleball if I didn't have to go against other people
Competition gives me angst
Can't even watch it

Unknown woman in wonderfully old bubble glass
From Goodwill in South Bend, IN

Cleaned up and resealed to last hopefully for a few more decades

I LOVE the Pants cartoons
Some details sometimes take me a while to get
Look at the hair on these two

https://twitter.com/pants/status/1740151726462878004

Flat rice noodles for soup were invented by a man who loved slurping sounds more than ANYTHING else in the world.

- Fact

@WendyForbes From where? I know someone who needs one of those.

@Reincarnation_3 I think almost all corporations have already done that for you.

Things now labeled as "Family Size" used to be single servings.

#Shrinkflation

Alice & Elizabeth (c. 1891)
They clean up nicely

Another mild refurbishment complete
A jumbo 22x26 inch oak frame flea market find
Hopefully, it will now last a few more decades

Whoever decided that advent calendars with chocolate behind the doors should not be the full month of December is a jerk.

@CJLavoie "Remove" is another way I say taste test when baking.

@Ellomumsy Do you remember the name of that?
I know someone who needs one.

I attended the local German Christmas Market today
It was nothing to write Oma about
(German dad joke)

@Kittiekatt53 Family members who are vampires?

Has anyone else noticed that gravity is extra strong today?
It has been challenging for me to get up and do anything.

I blame the moon.

I have been on a non-Amazon shopping spree.
The translations are always my favorite.

That thing where you buy a new pair of shoes and then think I don't want to wear these outside and get them dirty.

I wish this were in color
His eyes look intense
From an antique shop in Volo, IL
(c 1895-1905?)