Peanut Brittle Farts
I was not involved in the making of this story. Every year I give my friend and fellow Rotarian a gallon of caramel corn he gives me his famous peanut brittle. It's not too sweet and and it won't break your teeth as most brittle does. So I brought home the candy on Wednesday, sampled a small amount, and handed the bag over to Gary as I do every year. We talked for awhile and then got ready to run some errands before I went to a book signing. I cam home around 9:00 that evening and the trash can was locked. Gary had chicken for dinner and I figured maybe there were bones and he didn't want my chicken loving dog to rummage in the trash for them. I asked Gary why and he got this sheepish look on his face. "Uh, we forgot to move the candy." "Excuse [...]
Be Kind
One day in the midst of the holiday season of 2021 we went to run in for a few things we needed at Costco. I was picking up pecans and almonds for the caramel corn, trust me, only really special people are getting nuts, and saw that the price of vanilla is much better this year than last. It was around $26.00 and the exact same bottle in 2020 and in 2021 a bottle was $15.95. I use a lot of vanilla when making caramel corn. I decided to go through regular checkout rather than self serve as there was only one person before me. As soon as I started unloading four other people lined up behind me. The lady in front of me had toilet paper and paper towels. They rang her up and then the cashier noticed the vanilla in the cart that had been hidden by the [...]
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
Today is National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. What time would you travel to in your own life or in history? Hands down I'd travel back to June 15, 2016 and leave the beach five minutes later than we did that day. Or we could have taken a different route home. Had we done either of those things we would not have been at that exact stop light where the driver of the huge SUV behind us fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into us causing us to hit another SUV in front of us. That's the time I wish I could travel back to. But then I would not have this exact house, which we do love, and I would not have this exact dog. I would not have played a big role in saving over 6,500 dogs and raising money for the shelter and doing [...]
Never Forget
I post this same thing every December 7th because it really sums it up for me. I lived in Hawaii for about 25 years and Pearl Harbor was something that was part of the fabric [...]
He Chose Me
Aren't dogs the best? A memory popped this morning on my personal Facebook feed from 2017. This would have been only six weeks after we adopted Coconut and I forgot all about this incident. I [...]
A Kind Man
Today is World Kindness Day and today is Grandpa's second heavenly birthday in heaven. Today is a big day because if he had not moved to heaven, we'd be celebrating his birthday with 100 candles. [...]