Odds and ends of nothing in particular

10/12/03 11:59 AM

• It must have been a riot in the heavens last week with the Burns and Allen reunion and the arrival of Minnie Pearl. Talk about playing to a packed house!

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• Change the subject … During our oilfield days while we were working in Montana, we were driving along the interstate near Billings. There was this huge three-story brick building nearby with letters big enough to read from the highway. It said, "Payback is a bitch." Someone else painted, "So is Marilyn."

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• A wonderful thing is happening. Not only am I thinking, I have a lot of you thinking, too. Had a phone call the other day and the caller shared with me a story about sticking a finger into a cow pie then licking a different finger to convince the little friends (glad I wasn’t one of them!!!) to follow suit!
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• So, my doctor says I have to change my eating habits. I did. I quit. No, that wasn’t exactly what the doctor meant … "You have to eat a little, just change a few things." Oh, I got it, I’ll change a few things. My beautiful candy dish that held wonderful things like after-dinner mints, cherry mountains, candy kisses and jelly beans now holds Tums EX, Pepto Bismal tablets, X-lax and Theragram M. It just isn’t the same, but sometimes a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do!
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• Remember the singing and dancing flowers from a few weeks back? Well, they ain’t dancin’ and singin’ no more. Enough already! When I checked on them this morning it was truly a sad sight. They’ve had all the rain they can stand. My little yellow ones wanted their jackets, the red ones wanted their riding hoods, my baby’s breath couldn’t breathe, the petunias couldn’t carry a tune and the peonies were so cold they couldn’t … well, you get the idea.
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• I love this story. Two little girls and one boy, ages two and three, were playing in a little swimming pool, or whatever, and in the course of being wiped dry for dressing the little boy asked where one of the little girls’ "bibber" was. Quick-thinking Mom say, "God only gives bibbers to little boys. He gives brains to little girls."
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• Sometimes when you run into someone and they ask, "How are you?", do you ever wonder compared to what? I do, every time.
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