Miscellaneous Rambling Hmmmmmm: "LaCroix, Sparkling Ice, Bai and beyond: Are fruit-flavored waters good for you? [https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-lacroix-sparkling-ice-bai-and-beyond-ar/f-3c962de57b%2Ftoday.com] " I detest LaCroix, but my eldest daughter loves the stuff. Hi-Ball Energy is terrible. I like

Miscellaneous Rambling I hope my sardonic humor was evident Saturday. I don't really think my UP Michigan brethren are borderline retards. That was a joke. I was serious, however, when I said it's gorgeous, often unexplored, country, a land relatively untouched by human hands . . . or intelligence

While two of my boys and I slave away at the produce site and farmers market, the other family members live it up. I guess I'll get over it: > Family separated for the weekend. Eldest Alex looking after my girls. pic.twitter.com/ovHMTuDHrd [https://t.co/

The Weekend Rambler The picture accompanying this story [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/greenland-iceberg-innaarsuit-1.4744782] is pretty wild: huge iceberg threatens small Greenland village. The concern is that, if it calves, it could cause a tsunami. A pretty freaking cold one, at that. No word

Brews You Can Use Two funnies for the bar tonight: (1) "My girlfriend says I'm a stalker. Well, she's not exactly my girlfriend yet." (2) "#me too" traditionally translates to "pound me too." Always something new under the entrepreneurial sun:

Sign of the times: > New Game Show Gives Millennials A Chance To Eliminate Student Loan Debt https://t.co/Kp8YGCYFqK > — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 12, 2018 [https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1017228306016595969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

The Rambler Extreme embalming [https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/body-dead-teen-honored-extreme-embalming-posed-video-games-sunglasses-snacks-182105773.html] . I can't even begin to get my head around this enough to form an opinion. "[T]he body of taxi driver Victor Perez Cardona, a

Miscellaneous Rambling It's Kavanaugh [https://spectator.org/judge-brett-kavanaugh-nominated-to-supreme-court/]. I told my son Jack when I first heard his name last week as the possible nominee, "I know nothing about him, but I can virtually guarantee you that he's a

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew, the hot weather finally broke. My dehydration immediately improved, even though I started logging a lot more time at the produce site. We got our first crop of kohlrabi yesterday. We aren't sure how it'll sell, but it really did well in inclimate

My apologies for not posting this morning. The farmer's market called. Max and Tess did well, bringing in well over $100. Popular: lettuce mix and sunflowers; pretty popular: cherry tomatoes and individual zinnias and cosmos. > "garrulousness, that unhealthy tendency to externalize all the treasures of the