Beauty

[just bee]

Another remedy for stress:

Glenn Miller.

I'm sitting here listening to Moonlight Serenade and I'm feeling... mellow.

[Brisky]

Hello Everybody! First off, Geezerette, Glad you noticed the symptoms and started feeling better, I hope. Just bee, I love that tunic. Can't say I will be wearing it in my life time. Maybe if I won the lotto. No, I am to practical. If I hit the lotto, I still wouldn't do it. I did cave and bought two sets of Gerber daisys from the Q. I can justify this because I needed them.😁 I hope everybody is doing well. Mellow May sounds good to me. I could lay on the couch and veg?

[Brisky]

Squirrel Lover, I have got to go and check out Isaac's collection now. Thanks!

[just bee]

---

@Brisky wrote:
Squirrel Lover, I have got to go and check out Isaac's collection now. Thanks!

---

@Brisky 

@Squirrel Lover 

That's funny because I was just checking out the L.L. Bean tees.

[Brisky]

So much for accountability. 😁 I have been on Isaacs thread going over 15 pages. Some nice looking items!

[just bee]

---

@Brisky wrote:
So much for accountability. 😁 I have been on Isaacs thread going over 15 pages. Some nice looking items!

---

@Brisky 

I'm taking a day off from cable news, talk radio, TV and online browsing and I'm listening to music.  Started with Glenn Miller to get "in the mood," then switched to obscure 70s hits.

Steve Harley, Kate Bush, Gerry Rafferty, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Warren Zevon... I need to listen to music more often.   It has charms to soothe a savage breast.

[just bee]

@Brisky 

So where is this Isaac stuff again?

[just bee]

@Squirrel Lover 

Squirrels Were Purposefully Introduced to American Cities

Those nutty neighbors were once seen as a benefit to urban living.

By Nina Strochlic

Squirrels aren’t natural city slickers. In 1856 the sight of one in a tree near New York’s city hall so shocked passersby that a newspaper published a report about the “unusual visitor.”

Around that time, the tree-dwelling rodents were being released in America’s urban areas to “create pockets of rural peace and calm,” says University of Pennsylvania historian Etienne Benson, who studied our relationship to squirrels over the course of five years.

First they were introduced to Philadelphia, then to New Haven, Boston, and New York City. Park visitors were encouraged to feed them, and security guards ensured their safety. In the 1910s a Boy Scouts leader proclaimed that teaching children to feed squirrels could show the rewards of treating a weaker creature with compassion, says Benson.

By the early 20th century, though, America began to regret the hospitality it had shown squirrels. Cities had once been filled with animals—from horses pulling buggies to dairy cows and slaughterhouse livestock. By the 1950s those working animals had been moved to rural areas. Pets and wild animals such as birds and squirrels were all that remained of the urban animal kingdom.

Before long, the squirrels’ novelty waned, and they started to be seen as nuisances. By the 1970s many parks prohibited feeding the creatures. Today, says Benson, “people’s experiences with squirrels depend on their real estate investments.”

What would be lost if the last of these city dwellers were expelled? “I think there’s something constructive to having other living creatures in the city that are not humans and not pets but share the land with us,” says Benson. “Can we find some kind of happy medium? It’s a good thing to live in a landscape where you see other creatures going around making lunch. It’s good for the soul.”

[Brisky]

Just bee, I used to buy Isaac at target. So you know it's been awhile. I remember l always sized up one size because his sizing was smaller. He had some nice looking tops here too.
I take breaks from the news too. Basically to stay sane. They fight instead of giving the news. When they do give us the news, it's really bad news. My BH will come home and turn on the news and I tune out. Keeps me grounded to what's going on just around my neck of the woods.

[just bee]

---

@Brisky wrote:
Just bee, I used to buy Isaac at target. So you know it's been awhile. I remember l always sized up one size because his sizing was smaller. He had some nice looking tops here too.
I take breaks from the news too. Basically to stay sane. They fight instead of giving the news. When they do give us the news, it's really bad news. My BH will come home and turn on the news and I tune out. Keeps me grounded to what's going on just around my neck of the woods.

---

@Brisky 

I checked out a few long-sleeve tees and they were a little pricey for me because I'm... well, cheap.

I think I might have to check out Ross again.  Haven't been there in years because I could never get out of there without a cart full of stuff.

I usually have the news on but I thought I'd take a little break today and listen to music.  I'm on the 80s now.

Can't watch local news because when I do I start thinking it's time to sell everything and leave the state.

Will help BH prepare dinner in an hour... just have a few more dishes to do...