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1. 1 day ago on Moderately Confused

   Yes, I been saying this for quite some while. Years ago, Mom and I were reading old recipes from her aunts and grandmother. I could, with careful study and because I knew what the writing was about, more or less make out what my great aunts had written, but my great grandmother’s writing was incomprehensible. Mom could read the aunts’ writing, but struggled with her grandmother’s writing. My kids and my nieces can read my handwriting (sort of, I have lousy penmanship), but struggle reading my mom’s writing, and any writing that is older than that might as well be Greek.

2. 1 day ago on Moderately Confused

   Unfortunately the youth have their own secret code. When my nieces and great nieces send me texts, I have to text back “I have no idea what you are saying” (or as they would put it -IHNIWURS)

3. 4 days ago on Swan Eaters

   That all sounds easy enough for Wigglesworth to do.

4. 4 days ago on Swan Eaters

   I think Georgia has the true story of Baba Yaga.

5. 4 days ago on Swan Eaters

   The Hut? As in Baba’s Hut

   Not to be confused with Jabba the Hutt,

6. 5 days ago on Swan Eaters

   Sixpence? Must be inflation.

   I’ve always heard it as a “ha’penny” in my shoe.

7. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   South Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan here. We’re actually having a pretty good winter. We (finally) have enough snow cover that I’m not worried about my daffodil bulbs freezing solid or my town friends’ water pipes freezing between the main and and house. It’s been chilly, mostly teens & low 20s for daytime highs, zero-ish at night, but that’s as it should be here.

   To the north, along the Lake Superior shore, they’ve been getting blasted all winter, lots of snow (good for the winter tourist trade) and some really cold and windy weather (not so good for schools).

   Our snow fall here on the sheltered side of the bay of Green Bay has been moderate. The county has only had to plow our side road 3 or 4 times (and knocked down our mail box twice!). It’s been snowing fairly steadily since early Saturday, but just light fluffy, easy to shovel stuff. It’s warmer today than it’s been, but still below freezing so no rain (I really hate freezing rain.) Tonight it will get colder and stay on the cold side of normal U.P. winter for the next few days then gradually warm up to low 30s with 37 predicted for the high in a week.

8. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   My two sisters and I are mostly on the same page for politics and things like social justice, less so for religion. Our one remaining brother lives in a different world, but his daughter turned OK. My nephew the libertarian is in his mid 30s, past the age when an auntie can have much influence. My youngest niece/nephew just turned 30 and my oldest is 59, so I’m kind of out of the influencer role for them. But I do try to keep my great nephews and great nieces aware of the real world. (I just got the youngest of them (age 2) a subscription to Ranger Rick Club from the National Wildlife Federation).

9. 10 days ago on Francis

   Yes, I know. But does trump know?

10. 11 days ago on Francis

    MAGA logic. Try to scare Canada because a minuscule amount of fentanyl comes into the US via our northern neighbor, but set a major drug dealer loose. sigh