Subj : Ultimate Back Scratcher?
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Oct 02 2020 22:56:32

Hi, Daryl!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 EV>  I can use it all over my back.

 AH>  The handle is flexible too.  Very clever....  :-)

 DS>  I have no idea what I did with the one I had. Kind
 DS>  of awkward to scratch up against the door frame. :P


          Yeah.  I find the latter unsatisfactory, but I take it bears & other animals scratch themselves on trees when they're moulting or whatever....  :-)



[WRT the traditional Chinese back scratcher]
 AH>  Our daughter has one like that.  She's never used it
 AH>  very often, but keeps it for decorative & sentimental
 AH>  reasons....  :-)

 DS>  I haven't been to the fair in ages...and this years
 DS>  Arkansas State Fair was cancelled due to COVID-19.


          Understood.  Dallas & I live in a seaport, where it's easy enough to obtain such things if you know who to ask.  But anything which involves a trip downtown (except to St. Paul's hospital) is out of the question just now.  :-)



 DS>  Years ago, my late uncle had been separating the
 DS>  recycled items into one container, and the regular
 DS>  trash into another. But, one day, he saw the trash
 DS>  folks putting everything together. He never separated
 DS>  them again.


          Hmm.  I am reminded of a friend who, like us, is getting on in years and finding it increasingly difficult to sort plastics by number... as we were told to do by municipal authorities.  When I saw they were all dumped into the same receptacle I quit sorting them, just as he had done.  "Plastics go in the plastics bin", as he puts it.  And someone with "twenty-year old eyes", as our optometrist puts it, can sort them out if that is actually necessary....  :-))



[WRT bottle brush with an "extra long" handle]
 DS>  I may have to look for that, but the electric company
 DS>  apparently took me off of levelized billing. I've got
 DS>  to call them in the morning to sort things out, plus
 DS>  find out how to logon, as they've lost my logon info.
 DS>  At least due to COVID-19, they're not doing disconnects
 DS>  for the non-payments right now, as so many are in
 DS>  financial straits.


          I'm glad various organizations are recognizing that folks may not be able to adhere to the usual time frame at present.  OTOH, they may not be able to work quite as efficiently as usual.  The public library here suspended late return fees for awhile... but I'm still waiting for a book I asked for on Aug. 24th even though it's listed as available for loan & I'm #1 in the queue.  :-Q




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 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)

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