Idle thoughts

 Idle thoughts - and I am pretty much idle.

BUMBLE BEES:  our bee situation has stayed the same (see below).  A company is coming tomorrow to remove the bees from under our small storage shed.  The bees like living under our shed.  The company vacuums them up, digs under the shed, and removes the entire bee nest.  Bumblebees don't do the honey thing.  So they remove the entire nest including the queen and babies - yes babies - and capture as many adult bees as possible.

Then, they take them out to a certain ranch, dig a hole, plant the nest, & release the bees back into the wild.  Everyone is happy except me, who has to pay for this service, and the bees that are left behind.  My daughter is our environmentalist.  She wants to save the bees.  I am a jerk.  If left alone, I probably would have sprayed the nest with poison and moved on.  I do suppose this is the right thing to do.   I should open one of those 'help me" accounts on Facebook to pay for this.

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I started making a list of things that I want and do around the house.  I only got to four.  These are things I believe are necessary.  They make life easier around my house.

1.  In the kitchen, put a pair of "Scissors in Every Drawer."  These are the big honkin' scissors that will cut through most anything.

2.  "A pair of reading glasses in Every Room - and garage."  After my cadillac (cataract) surgery, I have to put on reading glasses for anything up close.  If I carry one pair around, invariably I break them in my pocket - and back to Walmart for another pair.  Now, I have a pair:  in the kitchen, on the dining table, hanging in the garage, beside my big comfy TV chair, by this computer, in the "water closet" for when I have a major event and need something to read while I wait it out, and beside my bed.  Eventually, I'm going to put a pair in the car...eventually.   I suggest this strongly to others who are infected with my desease.

3.  "A Box of cheap Kleenex in Every Room."   I know, I know.  I should have written "tissue" instead of "Kleenex."  My wife constantly seems to want to have a running nose.  There must be a tissue available in all household locations - sometimes 2 boxes in the same room.  She has a small trash can beside her comfy girly chair to collect them.  This can must be emptied every night before bedtime, or Bella - the tissue seeking dog - will rip them to shreds overnight and carpet the floor with same.  Is it so hard to empty a trash can nightly?  Apparently.

4.  For now the 4th thing I have learned to do in my aging youth:  "Always check my wife's jean's pockets" for spent KLEENIX before putting them in the washer.  How many times have I messed this up since I began handling the wash?    Tissue paper lining the inside of the washer & maybe the dryer.  I need a vacation from retirement.

5.  I'm sure there will be a number 5.  You can add your own to the comment list if you'd like.  It would be nice to get a bit of help with this.    How about this one.  If you turn the water on in the kitchen sink AND there is one spoon in the sink - the water will always hit the spoon and splash your shirt.  Enough.

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I had one more little thought.  It has been sorta nice that my grandgirls have grown up knowing my wife and me.  Maybe we have left them some memory which they will share with their own children, my great-grands, someday.  Of course, I have noted that the grand girls seem uninterested in me telling them about my grandparents - on both sides.  Perhaps, I will live long enough for one of them to be interested.  Perhaps.  Probably not.  I had good grandparents.  Never knew my grandmother on my father's side.  She died when he was still a young boy.  My grandfather did remarry to a lady who had a daughter my age.  That's a story all to itself for a later time.

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Final thought:  I've enjoyed watching a BBC mystery drama about George Gently - a Scotland Yard detective - policeman.  It is based on a series of books written by Alan Hunter.  I've bought a couple of the books and have enjoyed reading them.  The show is 2 hours long.  It is mostly talking type stuff with little real action...like today's action police shows.  If you can find them, give em a try.  You might enjoy.

Later - I'll be back....Mtz3