FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE
This is a cautionary tale.
On Saturday morning I ran out of contact solution, so I bought some at Brookshire's. I could tell immediately they were out of the kind I normally buy so I picked up a different brand without paying much attention.
Saturday night I took off my contacts and filled the holder with the new solution. On Sunday morning I went to put my right contact in and immediately was in intense pain. When you have pain in your eyes, the natural reaction is to close them, but I needed that contact to come out immediately, and boy was that a struggle.
It turned out I had bought the kind of solution that bubbles and takes the protein o ff y our c ontacts w ith chemicals that need to be rinsed off before putting them in your eyes. I'm writing this on Monday and my eye is still red but getting better. Hope all of you contact wearers do better than I did.
I'm going without contacts until it is all healed. It's a good thing I can only see close up. If you're more than a few feet away from me I will see a blob but won't know it's you. —kwc— Mr. Joe Hairston told me he has 1,000 tomato plants in the ground at his place in Milano and they will be ready by June 1. Sometimes he gets tomatoes from Florida that are ripe before his own tomatoes get ripe.
Luckily, when I was at work on Sunday, I saw him across the street and went over to see what all he had and he had beautiful tomatoes, red and yellow onions, new potatoes and a whole lot of decorative plants. He also had dewberries, but Terry Owens beat me to it and bought all he had. She and I are no longer on speaking terms.
He was set up at the corner of Ackerman and US 79 in the parking lot of Masters Marshall Arts, catty corner from the library, and I hear he's going to try to be there every Sunday afternoon. So be sure to stop by if you love good tomatoes. You won't find any like his in the grocery stores.
—kwc— Another good one from Ashley McKee Karl: John visited his 70-yearold survivalist grandpa who lived off the grid.
On the first morning of the visit, John’s grandpa prepared a breakfast of bacon and eggs.
John noticed a film-like substance on his plate, and asked, “Are these plates clean?”
His grandpa replied, “They’re as clean as cold water can get them. Just go ahead and finish your meal.”
For lunch, Grandpa made hamburgers. Again, John was concerned about the plates, as his appeared to have specks of dried egg on it. “Are you sure these plates are clean?” he asked.
Without looking up, Grandpa said, “I told you before, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them!”
Later, as John was leaving, his grandpa’s dog started to growl and wouldn’t let him pass. John said, “Grandpa, your dog won’t let me get by!”
Grandpa yelled to the dog, “Cold Water, go lie down!
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