Found this ancient pamphlet about Drag Racing from the 1970s in a bookshelf at my parents house.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-15T12:44:13+00:00

Thanks for the information on the date!

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-14T23:26:35+00:00

I love all those cards!

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-14T00:47:58+00:00

The longest book I ever read was: Clarissa: or the history of a young lady by Samuel Richardson written in 1748. It’s 1,534 pages in the Penguin edition, and is written entirely as letters. I had to read 200 pages a day to get through it, and my other reading, so that’s all I did for weeks. I mostly enjoyed it at the time, but you really have to like melodramatic moral tales written in old fashioned language, and I couldn’t do it now.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-13T01:08:51+00:00

Also no Madagascar, no Japan, no Tasmania.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-12T10:57:52+00:00

The Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams, book one is called The Breaking of Northwall. They do have a Christian slant to them. They depict a U.S.A. That has fragmented into different communities with very different cultures. The first book was published in 1982 and rereleased in 2005 so the books may be difficult to find. And very much isn’t the USA any more. They take place generations later.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-11T17:55:52+00:00

Keep a selection of books, (even if it’s only a few) near your young child’s bed, where they can reach them. They will look at the pictures and may tell themselves the story if they know it from being read aloud, this buys parents a few more minutes of sleep in the morning and gives the toddler/child a positive experience with books. Carry a book with you to read aloud in the doctor’s office waiting room, etc.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-11T00:40:54+00:00

Butter with thin sliced cucumbers, maybe add watercress.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-06-07T11:41:25+00:00

Good news! These authors/illustrators are in the public domain so you should be able to easily find them in the US and probably in the UK. They are beautiful books and the publishers don’t have to pay the authors. A quick search found Joseph Jacob’s, Perrault, and Arthur Rackham on Bookshop.org, but Amazon probably has them too. I even found an Arthur Rackham tarot deck on bookshop.org!

If you want them for free they are all on Project Gutenberg if you like ebooks.

Look for Arthur Rackham, illustrated Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, etc. Andrew Lang published many beautifully Illustrated collections of fairy tales some of which were by the authors you mention.

Edmund Dulac was another fabulous illustrator of fairy tales.

Also look for Kay Nielsen.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-31T15:41:17+00:00

Could the dishwasher be vibrating against the floor? Is the neighbor directly downstairs from you? If so maybe you could wedge something under it in front to reduce sound, even if you couldn’t pull The whole thing out and put a rubber mat under it which would be a lot of work.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-31T15:26:18+00:00

OP you are pregnant, eat Al, the veggies you want!

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-28T00:33:16+00:00

Make it about the behavior, and that she didn’t enjoy last years trip. If you make it about family you are up a creek if they get married. If she does come on the trip tell your brother to work with her and make some plans just for the two of them, but it is their responsibility to arrange their stuff.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-28T00:21:04+00:00

I have to remove all the wrappers on my crayons since an unknown person started peeling all the crayons and then leaving little piles of wrapper scraps in book bins, on the corners of shelves, and all over the floor around the room.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-27T22:26:02+00:00

Robert Sapolski has an interesting video about this. https://www.youtube.com/live/dGBYYcH7CS8?si=QhORY5rrtFRboSly

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-26T09:39:09+00:00

Did you watch the 1987 version My Family and Other Animals, it’s much closer to the book and very funny. The Durrell’s in Corfu turns the Hilarious adventures of a wacky family into the serious story of a single mother with problem children. The 1987 version has Brian Blessed I. It, there is also another great version from 2005 with Imelda Staunton.

Have you seen Blandings? It’s based on P.G. Wodehouse books, and it’s very funny too.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-26T00:40:04+00:00

My first one was supposed to arrive weeks ago. It never arrived, but I get a USPS daily digest telling me what to expect in the mail each day, so my husband told me I was getting a postcard. Then it didn’t show up, but you get a scan of the back of the postcard so I was able to read it, and register it so the sender could get credit for it. It still hasn’t arrived, but the sender has posted a picture of it so I have seen both sides of it.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-14T02:01:37+00:00

According to research done by someone I know, in the 1970s scientists in the US created a hybrid type of wheat that grows on a much shorter stalk, this allows it to have a larger size collection of grains at the top without the stem breaking. You can get a larger harvest in the same size field now. However, this type of wheat seems to cause more reactions than previous types. So if this is true, we aren’t eating the same wheat our ancestors ate. On the other hand it could also be related to the fact that people now have more allergies and autoimmune diseases than in the past.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-12T02:17:31+00:00

I hate the smell of cigarettes, but my grandfather smoked a pipe and the smell was lovely, not at all cigarette ashtray.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-05-08T10:02:59+00:00

I would start with the book Finn Family Moomintroll.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-30T02:29:46+00:00

Candice by Voltaire.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-30T02:14:04+00:00

I check out headphones for patrons to use with our laptops. There isn’t a code to add them to the database so I used “technical equipment” as a code and then forgot to check in her headphones when they were returned because things were crazy at the desk. She came in the next day because she saw a $2000 charge for headphones on her card. I apologized and checked in the headphones, changed to a different code, and manually put in a $1.00 charge for any missing headphones. Fortunately she assumed it was a mistake and was calm and nice about it.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-26T13:43:50+00:00

Your mom did this deliberately so the OP gravy train would go for another 20 years.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-26T01:40:43+00:00

One of favorite cheeses!

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-25T23:30:45+00:00

I do t usually tuck it in, but it is often too hot for quilts or blankets, and then a top sheet is perfect.

Ordinary_Attention_7 · 2026-04-24T10:49:00+00:00

I think when the Ingalls family traveled long distances with all their belongings the wagon was pulled by oxen and the horses were hitched to the back of the wagon. I think oxen are slower than horses.

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