Source: Pinterest I am taking some extended time off from blogging. Stomach-churning humor with occasional bouts of mentality will return sometime later in 2020!
Chanukah: Pleading Guilty on the Gelt
Source: World Market Today marks the first night of Chanukah. Or Hanukah if you wish, I myself am not fussy about the spelling or pronunciation. Jews tend to complicate certain words, such as those starting with "CH" by saying them in a hard, guttural sound from the Hebrew or Yiddish translations. "Challah" and "chutzpah" are …
Whisker Piffle
BEFORE: hirsuit and slightly unkemptAFTER: a clean "Team Coco" look "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." – Orson Welles It was about spontaneity. One wakes up and asks, "Why am I still bothering with this?" "This" being my beard; I had decided I'd had enough …
Leftovers
So is the turkey finally gone from the fridge? Did your family have to threaten sustained Dominos deliveries until you finally stopped with the leftover creations? Leftovers are rarely popular after 2-3 days. But today I'm actually referring to a different type of leftover. I'm speaking of those treasures which sit in thrift and resale …
Gratitude 2019 From A-Z
Julia Child and victim Source: Seattle Times For once I am actually ahead of schedule because I'm writing this annual post prior to the holiday. We all have our little rituals, and it's only in the last few years that mine included having to finish a blog post on Thanksgiving morning. But not this year, …
Open Season Roulette
Source: Healthy Aging Show It's perfectly fitting this week that I find myself with a whopper of a cold. The start of Open Season (sometimes called Open Enrollment) has begun for many Americans. This is the time when one needs to review his/her health insurance for the following year and make changes if needed. For …
A Little Less Than Perfect
A recent fortune cookie of mine How do you define perfect? Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines perfection in the following way: "The quality of state or of being finished: COMPLETION, WHOLENESS. The condition of having reached full development: MATURITY, RIPENESS... an unsurpassable degree of accuracy or excellence." Full development? Maturity? Oh, dear. Ripeness has …
Calling In Reinforcements!
Source: MSNBC Bylaw 1.7(a)(4-3) of this blog's charter states: “A topical post relevant to retirement must be published at least three times a year.” No matter how much I try to avoid that requirement, the home office always fires off nasty missiles on how late I am with yet another update on my retirement …
Under Surveillance
Source: Rearviewsafety.com Not to go all Prairie Home Companion on you, but it's been a busy few weeks here at Snakes in the Grass. So much so, that I'm starting to be a little concerned about the seven loyal readers who dutifully follow our adventures here. I want no impeachment articles to be levied against …
Hurricane Dorian: A Four Day Diary
Source: ABC News 9/1/2019 "I never even knew a Category 5 existed...People have never seen anything like that."-- President Trump, 2017 "Never heard about Category 5's before, a Category 5 is big stuff...A category 5 is something that, uh -- I don't know that I've even heard the term, other than I know it's there. …
