10 Things I Learned in November

This rose is in someone else’s yard. The deer don’t eat these roses because they are too busy vacuuming up everything in my yard across the river and the highway.
  1. I found a new blog with a superb writer, Marianne Wilburn, called Small Town Gardener.
  2. She also has a great book about gardening, written in her conversational style – Big Dreams, Small Garden.  It is one of the more realistic approaches to gardening I’ve read.
    My herb garden, before all the red leaves fell off the Virginia Creeper
  3. Through Marianne’s writing, I found a fascinating YouTube channel (?) or is it a person to follow; her name is Liziqi, and it is about a young, strong, beautiful Chinese woman who lives with her grandmother and gardens and cooks. What?? Yeppers. Fascinating to watch. (I’ve seen it before but can’t remember when or why.)
  4. I learned in November how much shopping does not appeal to me. Or maybe it is stuff that does not appeal. I’ve never liked shopping, but this really drove home the point. A friend told me about Jane.com, an online shopping mall. I looked, and all the stuff almost made me twitch.  (No, I am not a Communist – thank you for your concern.)
    Leaf peeping is more interesting to me than shopping.
  5. When customers are in a hurry and my schedule is full, I learned to tell them that there is a rush charge. This is the first time I’ve done this, and I had three opportunities in November. This takes the sting out of having to work on Saturdays and Sundays to meet their deadlines. Two of three customers agreed to pay the charge.  The third customer made an adjustment in his hurried plans and said he could wait the normal 2 weeks that we discussed last summer; even two weeks feels like a squeeze right now, but I got the job finished.
  6. There is something new, an alternative to FaceBook, called Parler. I wonder. . . but, no. I have enough to do.
  7. There is something else new, an alternative to YouTube, called Rumble. 
  8. A friend told me 2 really dumb jokes that he was surprised I hadn’t heard before: A. Why does a cowboy want to die with his boots on? So it won’t hurt when he kicks the bucket. B. Why does a man want to be buried in his truck? Because it hasn’t ever failed to get him out of a hole.
  9. I ran across the term “EDM” in a couple of different places and got curious. It is Electronic Digital Music, and in my opinion, it qualifies as an audio assault rather than music. (In an elderly voice coming from inside my head: “My goodness, these young folks today!”)
  10. In-N-Out has good hamburgers. This is a weird admission from someone who didn’t eat red meat for 17 years, and still feels a bit squeamish about burger. My conclusion is that it is the sauce that makes it so good. Wait – didn’t Micky-Ds used to advertise “special sauce”? This was so out of my realm of normal that I felt compelled to share the information. (Thank you for lunch, Jon!)

And here are a few more photos from November that didn’t fit into the list. (Nope, not going to photograph my food – this is NOT Facebook and no one who reads my blog comes here to see my lunch, thank goodness.)

P.S. Can you spot Pippin?

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2 Comments

  1. Actually, Parler is an alternative to Twitter. MeWe is an alternative to Facebook. Vimeo is an alternative to YouTube. I’ve heard of Rumble but have never looked into it. Everyone’s trying to grab a piece of the (pumpkin) pie!

    • Good to know, Sharon! The way I heard it (because I didn’t look it up) was that Parler covered FB and Twitter and Instagram. The advantage over those is that people’s posts don’t get censored (unless they don’t match the rules of what is okay for radio or teevee). Rumble also doesn’t censor things it disagrees with the way that YouTube does.

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