Random Thought #8

 Any one alergic to tomato vines?

     Every time I go out and look for ripe tomatoes I come in with my eyes and face iching like heck. Alxo, hands and arms. I don't remember having this problem when I first started raising tomatoes back in my 'teen years. 

     I wonder why as we get older we develope so many alergies to things that we didn't have when we were younger. I, also, have become lactos intalerent in the past couple of years. 

   I have heard that it is because we are so clean and healthy in this day and age and our body needs something to 'argue' or 'complain about' or 'fight' with.

   Regardless I don't like it.

Random Thought #7

 What happened to spell checker?  Mine seems to have disappeared. Have checked all setting and it is no where. Any suggestions?

   And what about all the times I start to write something in an email, or a post on my blog or a story I am writing and it suddenly disappears. Where did it go? and why? I didn't touch anything on the keyboard. 

Random Thought #6

I hate chiggers. 

   Which is worse chiggers or mosquitoes? At least I can see and hear mosquitoes. And what did people think was bitting them back before microscopes were invented so we could see the chiggers?

Random Thought #5

 Why Do We Name Our Pets What We Name Them?  

      I realized today that many people that have multible pets name them simular names.

     I have noticed that people tend to to this with their children, too. One person I know had a name starting with J. She married a man with a J name. As you have guessed they named all their children with J names. Another family I know did this with D names. 

   A friend has had 7 dogs. 3 had names that started with R. 2 had names that started with S. 

   On considering I counted that I have had 13 dogs in my life. The names were very random. I did find 2 had S names, 2 with B names and 2 had T names. All the other names had different letters starting the name. When my family and I named them I do not remember ever thinking about what letter the name started with. We just wanted to make sure the name fit the dog.

Skippy, SSkippy, Boots, Bonnie, Tag, Sandy, Kelly, Bow, Chase, D.D., Nicky, Codee, Tuffee, Ziva

I found about the same with my horses. I only named the first 2 horses. The other 4 came with names and I didn't change them.  Star, BlackJack, Sundance (Sunny), Bonita (Nita), Stormy, and Traveler. 

But ----------

When I looked at all the names of the 25 cats I have had I found that acidently I had used S names 6 times and T names 5 times and C names 4 times. I have no idea why. It just happened.  

       Tom, Smokey, Tiggy, Nusance, Rowdy, Ginger, Cotton, Spooky, Stormy, Ricci,Teaky, Spot, Skiggle, Buddy, Danny, Corky, Jade, K.C., Murphy, Wiley, Tinkie, Cassie, Chantilly, Silky.

   I noticed that my son hasn't payed any attention to how he named all his cats and horses, either. I did notice that for a while he named several cats and a couple of horses with just letters. K.C.,    O.C.   C.W.   and CAT.

We did think about it when we gave our son his middle name that was the same as his fathe'rs middle name, and the same as both of his grandfathers, and a couple of my uncles. Which makes me think about the thought that a lot of names are used for middle names but not so much for first names. 

Danny,ig

      

Tom, Sm

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My Random Thought #4

     Why does Walmart and Amazon make it so hard to order. There is so much on there that is totally not needed. I don't want to know what other people bought.  Nor do I need so many suggestions of other simular items. And why if I put in toothpaste is there all kinds  of glues listed. Or worse why a cell phone. 

And why are so many other smaller companies that are even worse to order from. 

Okay, I could just go to the store but it is so much easier to order from home especially for the older person that has trouble walking through the store as I do. 

My Random Thought #----------------

 Sometimes while doing some sort of house work or gardening or walking the dog, or what ever, I have a thought about what I can say for a Random Thought on my blog. But by the time I can find time to open the computer I have forgot what that Random Thought for the day was. 

So where did that Random Thought go to???????

Squirrels

 We have seen a few of the normal gray tree squirrels since we lived here but not as many as expected. In the past week we have had a pair of young squirrels discover we have sunflower seeds in a pan on the porch for the birds that don't like to use the hanging feeders. The chipmunks that live under the porch have been coming to the pan each summer and even some in the winter. We can tell they are some that were born this spring as they aren't as big as the other squirrels and I don't think their tails are as fluffy as the other squirrels are. They have taken over the pan feeder. They will chase off the doves and chipmunks when they try to get seeds when the squirrels are their. We may have made a mistake by letting them eat here. Last year a big squirrel discovered that it could chew through the plastic hanger for the hanging feeders in the tree. Then it would come down the tree and get the sunflower seeds by rolling the feeder on the ground. A couple of raccoons did the same thing. Hubby redid the hangers with heavy wire that the squirrel can't chew through. So far the little ones are just feeding on the ground. They love the sunflower seeds and the chucks of apple cores I put out for the birds. Might try a slice of orange tomorrow. I remember the rock squirrels in New Mexico loved the orange peal.  The chipmunks eat the pulp but not the peal of the oranges. 

He went that-a-way.