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Ten Things I Learned in March

Even after being away for twice as long as I lived in Lemon Cove, I still love the place. (No Trader Joe’s there, for sure.)
  1. If you find a surprising rip in your clothing while out in public, packing tape is a handy quick solution. 
  2. Farmer Bob’s World is a new citrus museum just outside of Ivanhoe. I posted about it on March 12.
  3. Somewhere I read that the way to wake up a body part that has gone to sleep is by shaking your head. What?? Someone please try this and let me know!
  4. If you want to leave money both to charity and to people in your will, use your IRA for the charity, because they don’t have to pay taxes on it, but people do, just as if it is their own IRA. Just list the charity or charities as the beneficiaries. You’re welcome (because now you don’t have to pay a lawyer to tell you this.)
  5. Three Rivers made #3 on a list of the 12 most charming small towns in California. Really?? They obviously didn’t dig very deep and learn that our air is foul, we are uneducated, unemployed, and fat. And, there is no Trader Joe’s. Here is the site: PureWow True, it is fabulous here in February and March.
  6. I met someone who is convinced that Elvis didn’t die and is now in the Witness Protection Program as Pastor Bob Joyce (or Robert E. Joyce, as in “rejoice”) of Benton Arkansas. That guy was born in 1953; Elvis was born in 1935. He sings like Elvis, but so do lots of impersonators. It made for some fun conversation (and DuckDuckGo searching).
  7. One of my drawing students has been painting with watercolors on used tea bags. Yes, you read that correctly. Her inspiration comes from Ruby Silvious. This  sounds too bizarre to believe until you see it. I grabbed this image from My Modern Met
  8. When pictures are hung in a group in a gallery, it is called “salon style”; when 4 are grouped together, it is called a “four-pack”. 
  9. If you live in Tulare County, have a power outage and the restart kills your 33-year-old refrigerator on which you have a DNR, call Frank’s Appliance first. (Whirlpool goes the distance.)
  10. There are 2 kinds of naked ladies bulbs: one is called Lycoris and works where the winters are cold; the other is Amaryllis Belladonna and pops up in August after all hope for a decent looking yard has expired in that dismal month. (This learning was triggered by a gardening blog and is not relevant to March but I learned it in March, so there.)
    Amaryllis Belladonna, always a nice surprise in my yard in August, because the deer don’t eat these.

5 Comments

    • Maybe we can put it at the former Doll Nest, next to the toilet in the front yard.

  2. If it’s not too late, keep your old refrigerator for storage in the garage (or your painting studio). I have 2 old refrigerators in my garage, each STUFFED with yarn…because bugs can’t get into refrigerators! You will have lots of shelves for storage. I’m so glad I saved mine.

    • Excellent idea, Nikki. When shall I bring mine to you??

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