overheard in the bloom walmart on sunday (the lord's day!)...
near the health/beauty/pet supply area (i was looking for doggy chew toys and mrs meyers hand soap) a mother, her daughter (rough age estimate? early 20s) and her daughter's newborn are walking with the baby's daddy.
the girl says, "and condoms, we have to pick up some condoms."
the boy says, "oh hell no. we are not buying condoms."
girl quickly responds, "well, unless you want another one of these," gesturing towards the babe, "we're getting them."
and the mother/grandmother says something like, "yes, yes, condoms."
the boy continues to assert that he is not wearing condoms and than asks granny, "now let me ask you a question - do YOU still use condoms? no, no. i am NOT wearing a condom. no, never."
grandmammy finally said, "fine. you stay here. we're going to get them and we'll meet you right back here."
lay down that law, grandmommy!
at this point, i decided i had followed too closely behind them for far too long already to attempt to stick around and hear the ensuing debate once the ladies returned with their shopping cart full of rubber. sad. i do so wonder how they will ever convince him to wrap it up.
9.19.2011
8.17.2011
and now back to your regularly scheduled bee
oh snap. that's right. blogger hiatus over. i promise this time i'll last at least a week. i have plenty to say about the recycling in this town. that is, if i don't die first.
we found these baby pumpkin looking berries growing along our grape vine just after i moved in two weeks ago. they started with little white flowers and then all turned into green babe pumpkins.
after they ripen, they turn dark purple, almost black. if you look in the background on the right, you can see where the birds ate the ripe ones off the stem - that blurry bright purple spot - that's them. the black berry oozes fuchsia all over.
so naturally i was curious and pulled one off the stem and squeezed it 'til it burst. fuchsia color everywhere. my fingers are still pink-purple. then i licked it. (i know the one rule of the wilderness is to never eat shit when you don't know what it is, but whatever this isn't kryptonite). it tasted bitter so i spit it out and played around with the seeds a little bit, smushing fuchsia even more all over my fingers. then i came inside and asked twitter if they knew what it was.
fortunately - twitter DID know what it was!
unfortunately - it's pokeweed. poisonous to mammals when eaten raw! hooray! let's go back to that dont-eat-shit-if-you-dont-know-it's-totally-non threatening-and-not-poisonous. lesson learned.
yours in pokeberries, unless i die tomorrow.
we found these baby pumpkin looking berries growing along our grape vine just after i moved in two weeks ago. they started with little white flowers and then all turned into green babe pumpkins.
after they ripen, they turn dark purple, almost black. if you look in the background on the right, you can see where the birds ate the ripe ones off the stem - that blurry bright purple spot - that's them. the black berry oozes fuchsia all over.
so naturally i was curious and pulled one off the stem and squeezed it 'til it burst. fuchsia color everywhere. my fingers are still pink-purple. then i licked it. (i know the one rule of the wilderness is to never eat shit when you don't know what it is, but whatever this isn't kryptonite). it tasted bitter so i spit it out and played around with the seeds a little bit, smushing fuchsia even more all over my fingers. then i came inside and asked twitter if they knew what it was.
fortunately - twitter DID know what it was!
unfortunately - it's pokeweed. poisonous to mammals when eaten raw! hooray! let's go back to that dont-eat-shit-if-you-dont-know-it's-totally-non threatening-and-not-poisonous. lesson learned.
yours in pokeberries, unless i die tomorrow.
4.18.2011
before and after
i've seen this on another Philly blog but can't for the life of me remember. either way, this is what excited me today. and note, that's definitely the crew for the reese movie, how do you know, which i only just added to my netflix queue two seconds ago.
even though the building on the left is no longer a hospital and the building on the right is just a glorified hollywood set, it's cool when things stay the same. but where is the 1950's honest tom's taco truck??
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2009
even though the building on the left is no longer a hospital and the building on the right is just a glorified hollywood set, it's cool when things stay the same. but where is the 1950's honest tom's taco truck??
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