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my lucky year!

I already know 2011 is going to be great year, or at least a prosperous one. In just the last couple of weeks, I have received over a dozen emails from all over the world informing me of impending wealth. I was most touched by the woman from Liberia, smuggled to Italy and “lulled into […]

hot air

During the boring period on a plane when “anything with an on/off switch” must be turned off, Kingfisher and I like to browse through the SkyMall catalog in the seat pocket. Recently, we contemplated an item called “The Slanket.” As have, apparently, so many before us. The Slanket comes in several different models and many […]

son of google searches

After four years of blogging, I tend not to look at my stats quite as much as I used to. After taking a look at some recent search strings that landed people here, I can see why. Laura Erickson massage…

99 things meme

I saw this at Evolving Thoughts and thought it would be a fun waste of time. Rather than bolding things I’ve done (or not), I’ll just divvy them up into two lists. Things I’ve done: 1. Started your own blog…

google again

Once again, oddball search strings that landed people here at Bootstrap: da da da song in commercial with green couch elderly farting cure birds with 2 heads ear candling in Israel circus cannibalism consequences of eating rabbit poop dunk stool…

When I receive a holiday letter, I sometimes don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems few people have mastered the art of a lively overview of interesting and relevant information and instead get bogged down in trivial or…

Apparently nobody got a really bad rash last year, because today is the second annual World Naked Gardening Day. The web site has some suggestions for every type of in-the-buff horticulture enthusiast: An elderly lady in a Manhattan apartment can…

what brings you here?

Well, I haven’t done this in awhile, so here is another installment in the Idiotic Google Searches series. More actual search strings that brought people to bootstrap… robot chicken farmers natural human popping sounds elder bug secrets news background scratching…

This post on the Ohio birding list made me smile: While enjoying a second cup of coffee on my patio this morning, A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER LANDED ON MY HEAD. Having very little hair, me that is, it slipped off immediately…