So funny!!

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An Eco-haiku

Many neighbors' yards,

Dotted with dandelions,

Help to "Save the Bay".

This is a salute to neighbors who allow weeds and wildflowers to take up space in their yards.  "The Bay" is the Chesapeake Bay, a National Treasure that's in danger of dying from pollution and "dead zones", brought on in part by the over use of herbicides and pesticides in pursuit of lush-looking, weedless, green shag-carpet lawns.  The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has tried for years to educate Marylanders about the dangers lawn chemicals pose to the health of the Bahy. 

My mother unknowingly hit upon a truth about lawn care back in the seventies, when she hired a lawn service called, of all things,  "Chem Lawn."  Several large maples died. One hot and dry July, her lawn looked parched and withered.  So did the lawns of other lawn service clients on Maple Lane. "Only one yard is still green on this street, and it''s full of weeds!" she complained. 

Love of Puzzles in a Time of Coronavirus

Yes, it's another puzzle. Other people are performing random acts of kindness. While they're delivering groceries to housebound neighbors, donating blood, and running up cloth masks on their sewing machines, I'm joining together the pieces of yet another jigsaw puzzle. 

This one will be much easier than the last, which had all those teensy-weensy villas on an Italian hill side. This one is called "Cat Nap". It shows eight sleeping felines in a bedroom decorated by a Crazy Cat Woman. It is full of cat stuff--cat lamp, cat clock, cat figurines, cat bedroom slippers, cat portraits, cat bookends, books about cats, stuffed-animal cats, paw-print wallpaper and a potted plant labeled "catnip." This puzzle also seems to have one missing piece and another from a different puzzle. How did the piece with the angry rooster get into the box?

Reading is another hobby that I'm doing more intensively these days. We've collected too many books over the years. I can't go to the library, which is closed anyway, so I'm methodically reading through our collection. I'm going to donate a bunch of them when this is over. Why hang onto them? Right now, I'm reading Ron Chernow's Titan: the Life of John D. Rockefeller.  I bought it at a church book sale five years ago for 75 cents. The book is in near mint condition because the original owner bailed out on page 49. So far, it's held my interest. Chernow is a lively writer. If it turns boring, I will just put it in the donations box and choose another. 

Portrait of a Great Composer

This portrait of the renowned composer,

FRANZ LISZT,

was created by our five-year-old grand daughter.

I don't know whether this vision came to her

in a dream or whether she saw it in a book,

but I think she got it right.