Evelyn Dewars

The grocery store had frozen pizza on sale, so I decided to get two (for $6.00 !) and have a treat. We almost never eat pizza any more. As a kid, we had pizza at least once a week because my Daddy worked for a pizza restaurant. But as we got older, the calories and fat in a pizza puts the pounds on, so we only have pizza once in a great while. Nowadays the delivery pizza has gotten so expensive, almost $20 for just one pizza, that I can’t afford it except as a special treat once in a while.

There was a very interesting article on the NPR web site that compared the health care reform efforts of 1993 and the current campaign. There are commercials from the 1993 and 2009 campaigns from YouTube posted within the article to illustrate their points.

The article make a good argument about media spending and how use of television ads can make or break a campaign – political or otherwise. There was also a 4 minute story that you can hear from a link on the site.

I got fired up enough to make a comment on their site. That’s not like me – but I care about the health care crisis and I just had to say something.

I can’t believe that I am admitting this to everyone, but I was so clumsy last night that I slipped and fell. Turns out that I broke my toe. That hurts! But I know from dozens of visits to an emergency waiting room that they do absolutely nothing for a broken toe – unless the bone is sticking through the skin. So I’ll be limping for a couple weeks and feeling foolish for slipping.

Today is the third day in a row that the temperatures have exceeded 90 degrees. And summer is still 9 days away before it is official!

The yard swing that I bought has a nice canopy to help keep the sun and tree debris from soiling the cushions. It helps make shade and so does the swing itself. I discovered that the rabbits appreciate the shade, too, when I found one sitting under my swing this afternoon. He sat there under my swing and watched me move about the yard tending to the plants and flowers, and he never hopped away.