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Orange juice and fungicide

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Have you been hearing the news stories about how several orange juice companies have been reporting a fungicide being found in some of their orange juice that came from Brazil? What I’ve been hearing is that small amounts of the stuff has been found, and that the amounts are supposedly within the safe amount allowed, but the juice is being recalled just the same. Apparently tha amount of fungicide that has been found is allowed in other countries, but not in the United States of America.

When I hear about how some things are allowed in other countries but not in the USA, I have to wonder why the other countries are allowing it. Were the officials bribed, or do they just not care?

Tired legs

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For several years, I’ve been wearing compression socks to ease the pain and aching in my legs caused by varicose veins. The first pair of socks that I wore were actually a pair of pantyhose and they were given to me by my mother, when I was pregnant and my legs were in agony. I thought they were wonderful!

After I had given birth, I wanted to buy a pair of pantyhose that were not maternity and that was when I ran into an obstacle – I could not find them for sale in the local stores anywhere. When I went into the local pharmacy to ask about them they told me that they were a special order item, and the brand that I had used in the past was not something they could order. They only carried the Jobst brand, so I went ahead and ordered them. Since then I’ve learned that there are several brands on the market, but Jobst is the brand that my doctors always recommend.

Thoroughly modern look

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I like the traditional styles in furniture and jewelry. My younger sister is more into the modern, industrial look. I’ve never quite been able to understand how someone could feel all warm and fuzzy when surrounded by a lot of stainless steel and chrome types of furnishings, but what the hey, it is what it is! So when she told me that she and Bob were looking at buying some tungsten rings for each other for their wedding bands, I guess I should not have been surprised. They are very modern looking, and from what I hear they are scratch proof.

She was showing me a website that sold titanium rings and tungsten rings, and I have to admit that I liked the look of the hammered titanium rings. I think that the hammered look is more of a traditional look than modern, don’t you? To be honest, I felt that the prices were a lot lower than I expected. I don’t know which one she will choose, but there were plenty of styles to choose from. I’m excited for her to be engaged!

What’s up with that?

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I put a load of clothes in the washing machine last night and turned it on. About ten minutes later I entered the kitchen to get a snack, and was not happy to find myself stepping in a widening puddle of water, which was seeping in under the door from the laundry room! I rushed out to the laundry room and turned off the washing machine. I have a service contract with Sears for them to come out and repair my appliances, so I called them up and they told me that it will be two weeks before they can send a repairman out! So now I have a completely saturated load of clothes that I need to take out of the machine and take down to a laundromat to finish up. Goodness knows that is not something I enjoy doing!

I think that a two week wait for an appointment is disturbing. I wonder if there is the same time lag for broken refrigerators! That would be terrible!

Tomfoolery

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My sister told me last night that her word of the week is “tomfoolery.” She was telling me that she had just learned that it was all one word; for some reason she had thought it was two words. That surprised me, but I agreed it was a fun word. So when I saw an article about website hosting by a company called Fat Cow I just had to laugh. I wondered who in the world would think of such a silly name?

Thinking about it, I wondered if they were thinking that this “Fat Cow” company would be a “cash cow” for them. And I wondered why they didn’t just name the company Cash Cow. Maybe someone else already took that name. Anyway, this piqued my interest and I started clicking around and found a story about how this Fat Cow company was striving to make it’s company as ecologically friendly as possible. That made me think of how much fun they could have with an internal newsletter about the company with the headline reading “greener pastures for Fat Cow.”

I’d like to think it would be fun to work for a company that has a sense of humor like that.