How to Prevent Drunkenness, 1612

 

 (This is one where I had to modernize some of the words or spelling.)

 

This shows a way how a man may drink much wine and yet not be drunk:

 

To drink a great store of wine, and not be drunk, you must eat of the roasted lungs of a goat.

 

Otherwise, eat six or seven bitter almonds after fasting.

 

Or otherwise, eat raw Coleworts (cabbage) before you drink, and you shall not become drunk.

 

How to make them which are drunk sober:

 

You must make them eat Colworts and some manner of confections made of brine. (In this case, the brine means salt water, as in salt water taffy.)

 

Or else drink great draughts of vinegar.

 

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So…eating goat lungs, bitter almonds, or cabbage will keep you from getting drunk.

I really have my doubts that cabbage and taffy or great amounts of vinegar would help sober you up, unless it’s to make you barf all the liquor up…ick.

 

Mundane Mumblings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll start this off with a fun little memory from my past. Growing up, we ate a LOT of Campbell’s soups. Especially chicken noodle. My brother and I liked to take the individual noodles and lay them on the edge of the table and pretend we were birds slurping up worms. We usually did this when no one else was around us. Such innocent fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I HATE wallpaper! I prefer walls that are empty until you hang a picture. I’d see these home makeovers (especially Colin and Justin) and the first thing they would do is hang some terrible wallpaper. No thanks! Sarah is brilliant at doing montages with framed family pictures. And I’ve seen several very nice ones with random art pics. I’d love to have a montage of B&W pics, or monochrome pics, or totally random abstracts. Each room would have its own montage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember lollipops on a string instead of a stick? Like the ones that Sidney Poitier gave the nuns in “Lilies of the Field”? Those were neat because if you saved the strings, you could tie them together. Kids like that kind of thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone knows I love cats and I love Jimmy Stewart. One of my favorite movies is Bell, Book and Candle. It features Jimmy and a cat named Pyewacket. When I was at Girl Scout camp MANY years ago, we slept outside on the ground. There was a tent for if someone was sick and needed to be somewhat ‘indoors’. At one point I had a sore throat and was put in the tent. There was another girl named Chloe in there as well. She had a cat named Pyewacket! I thought that was the coolest thing in the world! The only reason I never gave any of my cats that name is because Pye was a Siamese. The first year we were married we took in a stray that had a lot of Siamese in her, but by that time I’d forgotten about Pyewacket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And speaking of cats…the Brontë sisters (Emily, Charlotte and Anne) were cat lovers. Here is part of Emily’s essay in praise of cats: “I can say with sincerity that I like cats; also I can give very good reasons why those who despise them are wrong. A cat is an animal who has more human feelings than almost any other being.”

 

Word…

 

First World Problems – laundry

 

Growing up, my grandparents lived with us and it was Grandma who did all the housework because my mom worked full time. We had a washer and dryer, but almost always, laundry was dried on the clothesline in the back. The wet laundry was put in the cart and rolled to the back.

 

I did the same when I married, but dress clothes were dried in the dryer. And I had one of those carts like the one above. It was an old one, but very sturdy. The liner was from heavy cloth and lasted forever. When we moved to Oroville there was no back yard clothesline, so I started drying everything in the dryer. I found that I needed a second cart when doing more than one load of laundry. So I ordered one. Talk about flimsy! But it served its purpose. And the liner was pretty good quality. Over time, both liners started wearing out and I ordered new ones. Those weren’t as heavy as the others, but they were OK.

 

When the time came to replace them, I got some pretty liners like the one above. You can still get the carts, by the way, but they are stupid expensive for what they are. I only needed the liners. TOTAL CRAP!!! And they were not cheap in price, but in quality. They started tearing almost immediately. I mended them over and over. This style of cart is one that suits me the best. The washer and dryer are raised up so I don’t have to hurt my back. And scooping out the laundry from one machine to the other in a cart is easy. And since the cart folds somewhat, I can get it up the steps from the garage easily.

 

When Sarah came up for Easter, I asked her to bring her sewing machine to make me some new liners out of a couple of beach towels. That material will last a LONG time. She cut the flimsy liner apart to use as a pattern and made me two lovely cart liners. One is pictured below.

 

By the way, I looked all over the Internet for liners for this style of cart and they were all the same. Same pattern of cloth (or white ones) and same poor quality of material. And my original 60+ year old cart is still going strong. The one below has been replaced once because of the poor quality of metal, and the time will come when that will need to be replaced, but I know I will never need new liners!

 

PS—I just now thought to look up ‘laundry carts for seniors’ and found this at Hammacher Schlemmer: https://www.hammacher.com/product/back-saving-laundry-hamper

It’s a bit pricey, but if I’d seen this when I was originally looking for liners, I might’ve gotten this. The reviews are enthusiastic. This might be my next cart when the other one wears out.