THE RAINS CAME & NEW MEDICINE & ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS
By OLIVENE GODFREY
After a long period of drought, the downpour last Friday
brought an inch of rain for us. The rain was beautiful to our eyes. Son Barry and I had been busy all morning with household chores. Barry also took a large load of junk in his pickup truck to the landfill. We ate a large lunch and rested awhile before the rain came.
I wrote last week about the new drug I was taking for my Irritable Bowel Syndrome. My insurance doesn't cover the drug and it is very expensive. Thanks to my GI doctor and his nurse in Dalton, I have stopped taking the expensive drug and instead am taking a more effective medicine that costs very little.
You may have heard of the compact(CFL) energy saving light bulb which is designed to fit into roughly the same space as a standard light with the advantages of a fluorescent bulb.
According to some Internet information, the new bulbs have a longer rated life and use less energy. A CFL can save over US $30 in electricity over the bulbs lifetime compared to the standard bulb.
Barry has replaced some of our standard bulbs with the new CFL and we like the the new ones. They are brighter and we can save energy using them.
During a recent phone conversation with my cousin, Ernestine, we spoke of the pictures Barry had printed of our late maternal grandparents and recalled our childhoods when we called them Big Mama and Big Daddy. Barry said that reminded him of Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin roof, as the playwright had a character named Big Daddy in it. Actually, Williams wasn't born in Tennessee but in Columbus, Mississippi. The Tennessee name was given to him by his fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri because of his southern drawl.
QUOTES: "The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong." --Wilson Mizner
"Everybody should try to get at least a high school education, even if they already know everything."Earl Wilson column
"A speaker who does not strike oil in 10 minutes should stop boring." -Louis Nizer
By OLIVENE GODFREY
After a long period of drought, the downpour last Friday
brought an inch of rain for us. The rain was beautiful to our eyes. Son Barry and I had been busy all morning with household chores. Barry also took a large load of junk in his pickup truck to the landfill. We ate a large lunch and rested awhile before the rain came.
I wrote last week about the new drug I was taking for my Irritable Bowel Syndrome. My insurance doesn't cover the drug and it is very expensive. Thanks to my GI doctor and his nurse in Dalton, I have stopped taking the expensive drug and instead am taking a more effective medicine that costs very little.
You may have heard of the compact(CFL) energy saving light bulb which is designed to fit into roughly the same space as a standard light with the advantages of a fluorescent bulb.
According to some Internet information, the new bulbs have a longer rated life and use less energy. A CFL can save over US $30 in electricity over the bulbs lifetime compared to the standard bulb.
Barry has replaced some of our standard bulbs with the new CFL and we like the the new ones. They are brighter and we can save energy using them.
During a recent phone conversation with my cousin, Ernestine, we spoke of the pictures Barry had printed of our late maternal grandparents and recalled our childhoods when we called them Big Mama and Big Daddy. Barry said that reminded him of Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin roof, as the playwright had a character named Big Daddy in it. Actually, Williams wasn't born in Tennessee but in Columbus, Mississippi. The Tennessee name was given to him by his fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri because of his southern drawl.
QUOTES: "The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong." --Wilson Mizner
"Everybody should try to get at least a high school education, even if they already know everything."Earl Wilson column
"A speaker who does not strike oil in 10 minutes should stop boring." -Louis Nizer
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