Dear Annie: This might seem a little weird for a 78-year-old man, but this really bothers me. When I was in elementary and high school, I wasn't liked by many of my fellow students. I was shy, a bit awkward and the target of bullying. I never fit in, and I thought high school would never end. ...
Dear Heloise: Today I opened a can of paint that I use infrequently and sparsely. Consequently, it's been opened and resealed many times. Today, when I went to reseal it, it didn't feel like the lid was properly seating itself in the can. I pulled off the lid and looked at the pattern of the ...
The multitude of leaves covered with hues of burnt brown, crimson red, and amber yellow blanketed the forest floor. Accompanying these are the crisp, cool, and frosty mornings, with a sharp bite in the wind. All of these are trumpets heralding the arrival of the season of Fall. Along with this ...
ESCANABA — Cinderella had to scrub the floor while her stepsisters danced. The army sergeant had Beetle Bailey on KP duty scrubbing the floors in the famous comic strip. Floor scrubbing was something great grandma did on her hands and knees with a wooden horsehair brush. Saturday was typically the day when grandma swept, scrubbed and waxed the floors so that they looked spiffy for Sunday supper time when company would often come over. The art of cleaning floors sure has changed much over the decades. Scrubbing floors on hands and knees was never a homemaker’s favorite job, but ...
“Either get ready for elimination or your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards,” – Bob Dylan With a rush and a mighty rustle through a pile of downed leaves, the autumn changing of the guard blew into these Great North Woods in no uncertain fashion. This was the ...
Dear Heloise: If your magnifying glasses keep getting scratched, try putting the glass part (or plastic part) into a snug-fitting sock. It stays on well and does the trick. Also, for short pieces (up to approximately 5 inches, per se) of metal or plastic, small bars, dowel rods, small pipes, ...
