- Pineapple quince is good for baking like apples, and eaten fresh it is like a green pear but very dry. (Something is telling me I might have learned and forgotten this one before!) I didn’t pick one – only saw them, took a photo, and asked The Farmer, who supplied me with this answer.
- Want to know why painters wear white? There are several reasons, including tradition. It was the official color of the painters union, is the base color of almost all paints (couldn’t be the base of the dark colors, could it?? of course not!), is cooler in the heat, signifies to others a professional appearance and approach to work, and shows all the layers of work done. Finally, if you see people wearing white, it might make you careful about what you touch.
- What is BCE and why instead of BC? BC means before Christ; BCE is the newer way of indicating time and stands for Before Common Era. (You can probably infer the reason for the push to change the old designations).
- In the same vein, AD means Anno Domini, which is Latin for “year of our Lord”; it is now called CE for Common Era. This implies there will be another era ahead – will it be called UE for Uncommon Era?
- A few months ago, I learned that the dial tone on the phone is F#. Being a curious person, I decided to test it. IT ISN’T F#! It is a flat A – not A-flat (can’t find the symbol for the musical flat sign on my computer keyboard – maybe I will learn that next month).
- It isn’t wise to schedule a blog post series during an active art show. I wrote the chapters of “How I Designed a Logo” before IMAGES OF HOME opened, scheduled it ahead to run on consecutive days, and then my show happened with many fun things to show and tell. Now I keep interrupting the flow of “How I Designed a Logo”, and it dilutes the impact of this large and important (to me and D-Bar-J) custom job. I hope you are enjoying the series despite the start-and-stop nature.
- I lowered the price on The Cabins of Wilsonia from $50 to $40; the sales picked up right away! Is this because the website store page has a tag on it that reads “Sale!“? If I knew this, maybe I’d drop all my prices by a dime or a dollar and mark it as being “on sale”. But alas, I didn’t learn anything solid other than lowering the price increased the sales.
- Badgers have a white stripe on their heads. I’ve never seen a badger but my UPS driver saw one dead on the side of the road near Kaweah Oaks Preserve, took a picture and showed me.
Did you learn anything in November? (Does anyone besides me keep track?)