Raspy-Throated Funscotcher: I wonder if Jef has read “The Indoor Bird Watcher’s Manual”. My family was familiar with the humor and made up their own species names in the late ‘40s and ’50s. The only one I remember: The “double-breasted t*t”. They weren’t all risqué, though.
Chemotherapy was my first reaction. My last wife lost her hair a couple of times before the cancer won out. One of her best friends told her, “You have a beautiful head!” I’m now married to a woman who years before I met her survived breast cancer and the hair loss that went with it.
My husband has his great-great grandfather’s clock that he had built himself. He was from Denmark, became a clock maker in the US and built tower clocks that can be found in India and China as well as Michigan. He built a Grandfather clock for each of his children. My husband was fortunate to inherit one of them.
Ah, the superior snark sprinkled among these comments! So clever! I’m in my 80s, and Batiuk’s describing something I’m familiar with – getting up to pee, coming back to bed, and, for me, cozying up to a warm spouse. Snark? Grow some empathy!
My cats don’t get on the counter when I’m around, but in the morning there are paw prints on my glass stove top!