Nostalgia-vision

My sisters and I are reminiscing on-line about television shows from our childhood. Check out this post on my sister's blog as well as the comments for that post. Feel free to add your own opinions, too!

Are there shows from your childhood that you'd like to comment on? Click on "comments" below and fire away!

Made Ya Smile!

Two funny things I encountered today, thanks to listserves to which I subscribe:

(1) A haiku that is itself a comment on haiku:

Haiku are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

(2) A T-shirt slogan:

I have upped my standards; up yours.

A Burst of Sun

Look what's growing on the west side of our house amidst the moss roses:

This spring, BP was offering free packets of sunflower seeds at its gas stations as part of a pro-environmental yet self-promotional campaign (the tie-in? its logo is a geometric representation of a sunflower).

So I picked up a packet, went home, and planted the complimentary sunflower seeds. Two plants popped up, and one just began to blossom over the past few days. It's the first sunflower that our daughters have seen up close (whereas I grew up with entire fields of sunflowers on surrounding farms in northwestern ND).

P.S. Those of you dragging your feet to put in an offer on the for-sale house across the street from ours are now out of luck. Today a "sold" sign went up in the yard, and our daughters immediately registered their wishes: "I hope they [the new homeowners] have a fourth-grader/third-grader/first-grader." We'll have to wait and see.