On washing hands. . .

In a May 13, 2013, article in Time magazine:    Paul Farmer, Harvard professor and infectious disease
specialist, is asked  about the effectiveness of signs in bathrooms saying employees must wash hands
before returning to work.    He suggested substituting "Hey, wouldn't you like to serve other people by
not transmitting your skin flora to your diners' meals?"   (Belinda Luscombe)

Iowa Snow May 3, 2013

Window Tree

The day before the snow in Iowa, we sat at our breakfast table and watched this beautiful
Bradford pear tree toss and turn in the restless wind.  I was reminded of the Robert Frost
poem:

    Tree at my window, window tree,
    My sash is lowered when night comes on;
    But let there never be curtain drawn
    Between you and me. . .

   Vague dream-head lifted out of ground,
    And thing most diffuse to cloud,
    Not all your light tongues talking aloud
    Could be profound.

    But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
    And if you have seen me when I slept, 
    You have seen me when I was taken and swept,
    And all but lost.

    That day she put our heads together,
    Fate had her imagination about her,
    Your head so much concerned with outer,
     Mine with inner weather.

Envy

A friend told me that her mother told her if she was going to be jealous of someone, she needed to be
prepared to take the whole package.  That changes one's perspective. . .

Tulip time in Pella

Five inches of the coldest, wettest, latest snow I have ever experienced!

I think Pella Iowa is more Dutch than Holland.

Deceived by GPS

My friend Nancy and I were deceived by the GPS lady on the route to Pella, Iowa. . .this road turned
to dirt before we finished the 10 mile stretch!