Monday Meanderings - 10.7.2013

Hello Fall. We have missed you!

We stopped by the post office the other day to mail a package. While I was inside standing in line, Barb waited in the car, where she overheard this conversation from the folks parked next to her:

Man, returning from the line I was still standing in: "They said it would get there in 3 days."

Woman, waiting in car like Barb: "Well, that's shorter than the time you spent in line."

Bees have taken over our hummingbird feeder. So much so that they have chased the hummers away, and they give us pause as well whenever we are on the patio. Barb read that a liberal application of petroleum jelly on the feeder will keep them away, so she greased that sucker up and it looks like that is doing the trick. I'm sort of like Pooh, though. If there are bees, shouldn't there be a bee tree nearby?

And speaking of bees, we drive by a pet supply that advertises "Burt's Bees for dogs." I'm familiar with Burt's Bees lip balm, but I don't think I've ever seen a dog that needed lip balm. Curious.

A telephone salesperson snuck in under the caller-id screen the other day. This was one of those folks that press even harder if you say that you are not interested, so after Barb politely told them "no," and was hanging up the phone she heard the strident seller yelling, "Don't hang up! I know you can still hear me."

Here's proof that bacon is not good for you:

Man injured by half-tonne of falling bacon.
A man was sent to hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden after being crushed under nearly 600 kilogrammes of bacon. A man who works in a warehouse in the meatpacking area of Gothenburg's historic Gamlestaden district found himself underneath 500 to 600 kilogrammes of bacon after a trolley carrying packages of the thinly-sliced pork toppled over. The man was conscious when he was rushed to Sahlgrenska University Hospital with unspecified injuries following the mishap. Doctors later declared that the man sustained minor back injuries as a result of the accident. 

And let me be the first to tell you that there are only 79 more shopping days till Christmas.