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The (almost) full moon is shining through my kitchen window tonight. ☁️🌕☁️
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Willie, I'm usually sceptical about reviews unless they are all good or all bad. But if a product has amazing reviews and horrendous ones I usually take a chance.
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cwille,

Very true! So many fake reviews. Imagine getting a random package delivered because it is protocol to ship out a package for a review to be legitimate.

Crazy, huh?
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NHWM - Whenever I read reviews on amazon or anywhere else I always skip the 5 star one because I figure they are almost guaranteed to be either fake or from morons who just opened the box and haven't really had enough time to give an honest opinion. I usually skim the bottom of the scale first just to see if there is a consistent theme of complaints and check a few different sites if possible, and I pay attention to the date of the review because sometimes a product that was previously wonderful is changed by the manufacturer and comments will reflect that.
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Margaret,

It’s interesting to learn the behind the scene facts. Agatha was a very private person. Reading her autobiography would be fun.

Her literature was well known and she certainly sold tons of books!

She only gave one rare interview to a student at a university. He simply knocked on her front door and she spoke to him.
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Just saw something interesting on the news.

Apparently Amazon sellers are shipping out packages to random addresses in order to accumulate reviews.

These sellers are doing this to get higher ratings, so they are saying that only 60 percent of reviews are legitimate.

They pay people to write fake reviews. They send out less expensive, inferior products to the random addresses.

Nothing surprises me. I don’t take anything at face value anymore.
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Massive Agatha fan here !!
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Her upbringing was middle class priveledged, but her father’s fortune was lost, so she grew up on the fringe. For example, her mother imbued the Steiner rules about not teaching children to read until they were 7, but her nanny apologised to her mother ‘Madam, I’m very sorry but Miss Agatha can read!’ aged 4.
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Margaret,

I haven’t but it sounds like I should read it! I will. She was a fascinating woman.

She grew up in a very interesting era. She had a privileged life, didn’t she?

I plan to watch the next episode of this series that they are doing on her.

I find it fascinating that she wrote and sold so many books in her day.

The only books that sold more in that time frame were the Bible and Shakespeare!

Her books are still selling today. Not to mention the movies made from her books. Theatre as well. She was quite successful!
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Have you read her autobiography? It’s acknoleged as the best thing she ever wrote, really interesting and illuminating about a girl/woman’s life a fair old time ago.
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Any Agatha Christie fans out there?

There is a special on tonight about her life in England.

It’s on PBS. Agatha Christie’s England.
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Never thought that I would be finding something positive about a pandemic!

At first, I could not go to DMV to renew my driver's license.

The DMV automatically renewed it until 2021, adding a year!

So, I dreaded the driving test coming up. And worried over the eye test. And totally stressed over going to the DMV during Covid if it should allow appointments by my birthday. They said I must come in.

So, I went online early and found that I could renew and pay all online, no eye test, no driver's test, no waiting in Covid lines.

This window of opportunity exists now. Time changes everything! (Maybe since Dec. 31st since the surge is now.)

Another happy thing for 2021.

Counting my blessings!
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FF.

Yep! I miss my cat. She had an independent spirit, for sure!

Cats don’t live with us. We live with them!
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NeedHelpWithMom, forget making bandanas for cats. They will find a way out of those bandanas, and rabbit kick the daylights out of them =^..^=
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CWillie, I'm INTERESTED!   Thanks so much for sharing this.   Turner Classic Movies used to air contemporary and classic Shakespearean  (and occasionally a Greeck) play, but Comcast no longer provides TCM, at least in the basic channels.  

Thanks so much!!
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If anyone is interested in Shakespeare I've just read that the Stratford Festival has a YouTube channel and will be offering some of their plays for limited free viewing, beginning with The Merry Wives of Windsor on Jan 21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEhll0zF9M
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I have sewn a bazillion masks. I needed a change of pace.

So now I am making dog bandanas. They are so cute!

I made a couple for my daughter’s new pooch.

I don’t know if my oldest daughter wants bandanas for her kitties!

They sew up quickly. I might make a few bow ties for him too! I found a pattern online.
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I go back to work on Friday, and this past 2 weeks have been stressful. Today I think I got the last of the calls made, tomorrow faxing out and mailing ( certified) what needs mailed,, then just waiting for the last of the stuff to come back and get finished. So.. last Christmas DD got me a gift cert for a massage. Due to COVID and life I never used it. I AM going tomorrow, and I can;t wait! Hopefully it will be as wonderful as I remember!
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I've heard the term adulting but never from anyone in real life. And I haven't been able to see my niece since.... I think we managed to get together once last summer?
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cwille,

Does your niece use the expression, ‘adulting’? My youngest daughter uses that word and I have to laugh 😂 because it sounds stupid to me! LOL

My kids tell me that I am out of the loop. Maybe I am! English is a living language that is always changing.
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My youngest baby (niece) is 27 today! She says she can't believe it and wonders where the last year went - me, I'm wondering where the last decade went 🤔
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Seriously about the cat poop !
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Adding green peppers and olives to my tombstone!
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Gershun, I loved that, LOL. Let's see, 10-20 lbs of cat litter every week for the past 40 years. YIKES. You'd think my arms would show more muscle tone after all of that !!
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I'm not sure what I'd want on my tombstone cause I'll most likely get cremated. But I've often thought that I'd request my ashes get mixed into kitty litter. Seeing as how I've spent many hours cleaning my kitties poop I think it would be fitting. :)
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I saw a very moving epitaph a grieving husband had put on his musician wife’s tombstone: “music was your world, and you were mine.”
In my case, I would like “she seized the day”.
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Maybe I can put in my will that upon my death, my husband can come here for advice, and everyone will treat him nice?
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Send,

My cousin that I loved so much had a wonderful sense of humor and truly a man ahead of his time in many ways.

He lived well into his 90’s but put on his tombstone, “See, I told you that I was sick!”

His 90th birthday party was so much fun.

He married and had six children. His wife died.

He remarried a widow who had four children and together they had two children.

So, they had a ‘Yours, Mine and Ours’ situation.

They were all at the party. I have a bazillion cousins.
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In obituaries and on tombstones, it is a varied and personal thing if someone wants to say what killed them the day they died, vs. what was their life about
all those 80, 90, 100 + years. It would be a wonderful thing if everyone could leave a life changing message for those left behind on their tombstone.

What do you want on your Tombstone?

I'll have pepperoni, sausage, extra cheese.....



[It will be the cheese that killed me]



d i s c l a i m e r : joking
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cwillie, back in the spring/summer of 2020 the obits were mentioning that a person had passed from covid-19. In the fall/winter I noticed not so much. Maybe now because masks should be worn and social gathering a no-no, if a person now passed from covid-19 some people would think it was that person wasn't following medical advice :(
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