Monday Meanderings - 5.12.2014

Found out that it's a bad idea to go to our favorite Mexican food restaurant on Cinco de Mayo. Our normal Monday evening trip to Chuy's coincided with the plans of a bunch of party goers and the place be jammed! However, from a stockholder's perspective, you had to be happy with the business. Fifty-eight locations in fourteen states - and counting.

If one goes to Silver's Gym five or six days a week and pounds the treadmill for two miles each and every day, it should get easier, right? I think I must doing something wrong.

Keeping the squirrel out of the bird feeders is always a challenge; recently the pesky rodent discovered that he could chew holes in the Finch feeder "socks" and all the seed would pour out onto the ground and he could dine at his leisure. So we ordered a "squirrel resistant" Finch feeder - the barrel is metal with scores of tiny holes that the birds can feed at but the squirrel cannot. So the squirrel just chewed through the cord holding up the feeder. It dropped to the ground, the cap popped off and the squirrel won again. Let's see how well he handles the heavy wire now holding up the feeder.

You know those signs that neighborhood associations put out that say, "Yard of the Month," or some such? Our association put a sign in our yard that said, "Can't you do something with this mess?" I don't know if the quantity of tassels that grow on (and fall off of) pecan trees have any correlation to the pecan crop, but if there is one, all my friends are getting bushels of pecans for Christmas.

I have decided that I don't understand the new "Gender Reveal" parties. That sounds to me like taking your pants off at Target, or some such.

In other news, I guess I won't be going back to Target anytime soon.