This still has me thinking. There are hot glue guns, Elmer’s, epoxy adhesive, and a multitude of other DIY products to help make your life easier as you repair stuff around your house or stick things together. In India, a 25-year-old man went to a hotel with his former fiancée, wanting to have an intimate moment, but didn’t have any condoms. So, in order to prevent pregnancy, he reportedly used an epoxy resin to seal his privates, basically gluing his penis shut. The next day, an acquaintance found the man unconscious, outside in the bushes. Apparently, he quickly died of what was described as multi-organ failure. Unfortunately, this couple might have also been using drugs, which could have impaired their thinking, leading them to believe that they were building a bird house with balsa wood, or oak. Regardless, this was not a good idea. It is never a good idea to ever use glue on any of your privates. Never. And never drink bleach. Never. Just because it doesn’t say not to do it on a package, it does not give you an excuse to use something in an improper way. If you’re old enough to have a relationship with someone, then do it properly. Ouch. No one mentioned what happened to the girl.

Mike Richards is no longer executive producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, effective immediately. He taped five episodes before his world unraveled, which will still air. Hmmm. Talk about going from the top of the heap to discarded coffee grounds, in just mere moments. In our world now, everything we accomplish, or don’t accomplish is public, so watch what you do, watch what you say, or it could take you down later. Remember character is who you are when you don’t think anyone is looking. Ha. Everyone is looking.

The Girl Scout’s 2022 cookie season is still months away, but good news.  Come 2022 the Girl Scouts will introduce a new cookie, Adventurefuls, a brownie-cookie hybrid with caramel-flavored crème and a hint of sea salt.

We all have a place at the campfire. It was the Girl Scouts who first taught me that.  Gloria Steinem

The SPCA in LJ desperately needs your help, monetary donations, or donations of supplies. Please provide if you can. A highly contagious distemper outbreak is costing $50 – $75 per animal to test for this incurable virus. Covid has been tough for them, and now this…

Listen up: Effective September 1^st, if you or your property are damaged from a defective or dangerous product on Amazon sold by a third party, Amazon will compensate you up to $1,000. The company says it will deal with customer satisfaction and tackle the companies afterward if third parties are unresponsive or unwilling to compensate valid claims. Sounds like buyers are now in charge of testing. Bet there are dishonest people right now figuring out a way to turn this around to benefit themselves.

According to Mayo Clinic, hiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm – the muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen and plays an important role in breathing. Each contraction is followed by a sudden closure of your vocal cords, which produces the characteristic “hic” sound. Hiccups may result from a large meal, alcoholic or carbonated beverages or sudden excitement. While he was working as an anesthesiologist 20 years ago, Dr. Ali Seifi saw many surgery patients in recovery who developed hiccups. The doctor invented a treatment called the HiccAway, which is shaped like a smoker’s pipe. One end is submerged into a cup of water, while on the other end you draw water through the pipe, like a straw. Because of negative suction, it pulls down the diaphragm, which triggers a nerve that regulates your diaphragm. When water enters your mouth, the brain wants to swallow, so it closes the flap in your throat that prevents food or water from entering the windpipe and lungs, also signaling the vocal cords, which eases your hiccups. Just a little more useless, but interesting information.

RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Romance novelist Danielle Steel is 74. Actor Susan Olsen is 60. Little Cindy on The Brady Bunch. Actor-TV personality Arlene Dahl is 96. What’s My Line? Actor Melanie Griffith is 64. Comedian JoAnne Worley is 84. Country singer David Allan Coe is 81. Singer-bassist Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is 77. Actor Swoosie Kurtz is 76. Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 73. Actor Susan St. James is 75. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 62. News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas is 58. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 57. Actor Tom Wopat is 69. Bo Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. Actor Hugh Grant is 60.

Singer Gloria Gaynor is 77. Never Can Say Goodbye. Actor Heather Thomas of The Fall Guy is 63. Actor Topol of Fiddler on the Roof is 85. Guitarist John McFee of The Doobie Brothers is 70. Musician-producer Dave Stewart of Eurythmics is 68. Singer Jose Feliciano is 75. Actor Amy Irving is 67. Actor Kristy McNichol is 58. Musician Moby is 55. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 53. Actor Linda Gray of Dallas is 80. Singer Maria Muldaur is 78. Actor Rachel Ward is 63. Actor Angela Cartwright of The Danny Thomas Show & Lost in Space is 68.

Ed Asner, the longtime TV icon who holds the record for most Primetime Emmys earned by a male actor, died at 91. Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Rich Man Poor Man, Roots.

Jessica Chastain says the make-up she wore to portray televangelist Tammy Faye was so heavy it caused permanent damage to her skin, plus it took between 4 to 7.5 hours to apply. The actor said the role involved the most prosthetics she had ever worn, and that Faye’s make-up in the film gets heavier as she aged. Until further notice, Memorial Hermann has closed three of its Houston area 24-hour emergency rooms due to the surge of COVID-19 cases and its impact on its system operations. Governor Abbott is now asking hospitals to voluntarily postpone elective medical procedures and surgeries, in order to increase hospital capacity for Covid patients as coronavirus cases rise.

Campbell’s soup cans are getting their first redesign in 50 years. It is very subtle. I couldn’t even tell. In 1962, a little-known artist named Andy Warhol opened a small show at a gallery in LA. His subject was Campbell’s Soup. Each of his 32 paintings portrayed a different flavor in the lineup, from Tomato to Pepper Pot and Cream of Celery. Warhol was almost 34 years old, and it was his first solo painting exhibit. He had spent almost a decade as a top commercial artist, working with high-end advertising clients like Tiffany & Co. and Dior. He was determined to become a real artist, recognized by museums and critics alike. The Pop art style had begun, but his show was not very well received. Another art dealer down the street arranged real cans of Campbell’s Soup in his window, along with a sign that read: “Do Not Be Misled. Get the Original. Our Low Price – Two for 33 Cents.” One of Warhol’s gallery owners from the original show, ended up buying the entire 32 painting collection for $1000, paid out over 10 months. By 1964, the asking price for a single soup can painting not in the original set was costing up to $1,500, and NY socialites were wearing paper dresses in a soup can print, custom-made by Warhol himself, to gallery openings. Campbell’s Soup jumped on the very popular fad of paper dresses, coming out with the Souper Dress, covered in Warhol soup labels. Each dress had three gold bands at the bottom, so the wearer could snip the dress to the ideal length without cutting into the soup can pattern. The price: $1 and two Campbell’s Soup labels. In 1996 The Museum of Modern Art bought the 32 paintings from the gallery owner as a combination gift and sale valued upwards of $15 million. Wow, from a $1000 investment. Even the Souper Dress has been declared a classic. Warhol himself had grown up with Campbell’s soup. He liked soup.  “I used to drink it,” he said. “I used to have the same lunch every day for 20 years.”

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.  Andy Warhol.

In Temple, a 28-year-old man and woman were having an argument while inside a car; she jumped out of the vehicle, then he tried to run over her. Instead, he crashed his car into a Discount Tire store. Karma. In League City, a 53-year-old man stabbed the manager of a Jack in the Box who asked him to put on a mask. An American Airlines passenger traveling from Dallas to Charlotte, tried to open the cabin door while in the air, then bit a flight attendant before being restrained. A rare baseball card depicting Pittsburgh Pirates legend Honus Wagner just sold for $6.6 million. The card was issued in American Tobacco Co. cigarette boxes from 1909 to 1911 and has been highly desired by collectors for years. The previous record was a 1952 Mickey Mantle card, which sold earlier this year for $5.2 million. Yikes. Insurance companies may start charging the unvaccinated, more for health insurance.

When I go to Target, I always shop the end isles first because they have sale items. Then I shop for what I need. I’m not a big candle person, but there was a candle marked down, called Weathered Birch, Sweet Tobacco – Mahogany. It is so nice, smelling faintly of my Uncle Harlon in his younger years. He smoked a pipe and always had the nicest aftershave, along with the best hugs. Out of stock online.

Reminder: Each residential, business, commercial and industrial building in LJ needs to have street numbers large enough to be seen by the public and shall not be less than 4 inches high. House numbers.

Country favorite, Sawyer Brown, will be the first concert of the season at The Clarion at Brazosport College. The October 16^th, opening night concert, is sponsored by BASF. Concerts that follow the season are Jose Feliciano (I was raised on his music and who can forget Feliz Navidad), Tracy Byrd (Holdin’ Heaven was #1 on Billboard Country Charts), Paul Shaffer (yep, David Letterman’s sidekick for 33 years, plus he was part of original Saturday Night Live), Darrell Worley (17 chart hits), and early Thursday special event, Janet’s Planet. A sponsorship sure would look great for your company. Exciting news.

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

What did the buffalo say when her son left for college? Bison.

Well, my son Gage left for graduate school at Boston University on Sunday. I am proud to say that he applied for and received a three-year tuition scholarship and will soon be an official sound designer. Super proud of that. There were no tears at the airport but regret seeps in slowly, regret about all the things that we didn’t get to do when he was growing up. Regret, I’m sure, that all parents have because no matter how hard you work or play, there will always be unfinished and uncompleted stuff.  That’s because there will never be enough time or enough hours in the day, or enough money, to do it all. We were lucky because we had an extra 18 Covid months to be together. I WILL miss him. Gage is funny, he is a great cook, he is kind and considerate, and ‘most’ things positive. He has work ethic. He picks out good beer. He is a wealth of information about a multitude of topics. I will miss watching Boston Legal with him, but we have a plan. Watch it on our own and talk later about the episode. I will NOT miss going into the bathroom and finding no toilet paper. I will not miss his ongoing list of excuses for procrastination. I will not miss paying $135 water bills. I will not miss smart@&$ answers to my questions. I will not miss going to the refrigerator to make a casserole for breakfast only to find that he didn’t leave me any eggs. I will not miss picking up objects all over the house that don’t belong to me. I will not miss seeing him in the kitchen in his bathrobe at lunch time. I will not miss walking into the kitchen and seeing every single cabinet door open. I will not miss sending him to the store to pick up cheese and having him come back without the cheese. Hmmm. OR WILL I? Maybe, just maybe, I will miss all of those seemingly very unimportant things, plus more. Good luck Gage. It’s your time to shine and start life’s journey to your own future.  Bye, son. I Love You. So much that you won’t understand it until you have a child of your own.

Love, Mom