Tuesday's Orts

It's been a long time since I posted Tuesday's Orts---bits and pieces of events and thoughts that I gather in one post.  This one may be a little longer than most, lol. 

• Question: Why do people come to see a doctor if they have absolutely no desire whatsoever to take any instruction/recommendation about their health?  This has no relation to age, curiously.
• Our 5 year old grandson Cove, in a video taken by his mom, talked about an outfit he had on, explaining that he was wearing blue pants, a blue shirt and blue underwear.  Prompted by his mom, his reasoning for this theme was "To get with the Program".  Oh, that kid is hilarious!
• Hunter, age 3, was upset after getting out of the bathtub the other night, he wanted his mom to take the wrinkles off his fingers.  "I can't get these off!" he told her. 
• We are overrun with mosquito hawks since the recent rainy weather.  I had to bat a dozen out of my way to pick an avocado off our tree.   Clouds of them rise up when walking on the lawn or brushing against a bush.  Wish they did actually eat mosquitoes, but alas, it's a myth.
• Traffic Rant:  People Who Have No Idea What They Are Doing.  This was in evidence twice tonight, on my way downtown to get my hair done, a small SUV in front of me was driving 10 mph below the speed limit, sped up and slowed down multiple times, drove over the shoulder line, and then sped up when the speed limit went down.  On the way home from the salon, a girl turned into a shopping center before me, and when a few car lengths in,  decided to make a U turn in the middle of the road, right in front of me.  There was also a cop watching this nonsense so I was hoping he chased her.

•  Saw this funny Dandelion Puff Cloud in the sky last week.  
• We've been pondering downsizing to a single story house and have been to a few open houses.  A memorable one was described by the realtors holding the showing (who were sitting on chairs outside on the opposite side of the street), as "belonging to a collector married to a hoarder".  Their daughter had come to clear out the house but brought her menagerie with her, including tarantulas in cages, ferrets, dogs, and guinea pigs. The inside of the house was very cluttered and dirty, including the carpet, the walls, and the ceilings. There was a huge radio antenna on the roof and video cameras all around the outside of the house.   The low price didn't outweigh these red flags!

•  Oops, "that don't go there"--when your leader-ender hitchhikes....
• At a CVS store recently I was looking at their dried fruit snacks. A package of dried Fuji Apple slices was on sale for $3.06, down from $3.99.  That sounded pretty good until I checked the weight of the package, which was one ounce "net weight".  That would make the apple slices $63.84 a pound!!  I googled "how to dry apple slices" when I got home.  Did you know you can do this in your microwave?
• Finally, daughter Erica sent pics of a friend's son receiving the quilt I made for him.  Her comment was, "Trying to get a picture of a 1 year old on a quilt is hard".  

  I disguised his face with a smiley emoji on this pic...

...but didn't need to on this pic!  Those are his daddy's feet in the pic, not Erica's, FYI :)