Good Things Friday (260) and Link Love
February 16, 2024
- I managed TWO, no, THREE short yardwork sessions this weekend. I pulled weeds for ten minutes Saturday morning. Smol Acrobat very sweetly asked for a weeding session later that afternoon, which I’d been promising them for days, so it was time to make good on my promise. The last one was for Smol Acrobat’s sake too, but mostly to divert them from the Lego trolley they wanted. However. Ten minutes of chopping hedges is not the same as ten minutes of pulling weeds. My hands were shaking terribly after whacking off the sticky-out bits all along the hedges and dumping them into compost. I needed an hour to recover from that one.
- I have come to like my Darn Tough wool socks so much that I don’t want to wear my cotton socks anymore. The first part is good. Not sure what I’m going to do about the second part since we try to keep things out of landfill as much as possible. They’re still in good shape but I think they’re too worn in to be handed down. Actually maybe I’ll set them aside for one of the kids to wear when their feet catch up. They like borrowing my stuff.
I wondered if this headline was overstating things but at least in the two examples they list, it seems like it’s accurate (with the caveat that I take it with a grain of salt). I hope they wither away completely: Moms for Liberty Completely Collapses in Former Stronghold
More things that do not mean what I thought they meant!: I’m a Luddite. You should be one too. Reading this, I’m totally a Luddite: Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity.
Books AND money? Add some furry friends and this would be the trifecta of posts. One reader’s list of the money she saved by using the library: Let’s Get Literate! Love Your Library
The original Bob seems like he was a pretty decent fellow: The Founder of Bob’s Red Mill, One of the Country’s Most Famous Whole Grain Brands, Has Died
Thank you so much for the Washington Post link concerning how to get free Paxlovid. I hadn’t heard of that program before. I’m making myself a note now in case of future need. I’m still masking, so, fingers crossed, that I can avoid Covid. I had a mild case of it last summer, but I am terrified of ending up with long Covid.
Glad JB had a good birthday party and that Sera is feeling a bit better.
You’re so welcome! I had to read through the whole article to see what might be applicable for our situation but this was the first I’d heard of it too.
The idea of Long COVID is horrifying to me as someone who already lives with some of those symptoms. No more, thank you!
The library is the absolute best. We didn’t use it for years and then we started to and I never looked back. The digital lending apps are the absolute best. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I save crazy $$ $ using Libby and Boundless. Sometimes I scroll through the 100+ audio books on Audible and do the quick math multiplying that number by $15. Ugh. I wish we had used the library more when the kids were little. We would have save so much.
I hope you have a great weekend and can stay dry this coming week.
It really is the best! I donate to them too because I’m so glad to have them but it’s still way less than we’d spend for all the books that JB, Smol Acrobat, and I consume every year.
Likewise, stay safe and dry this weekend!