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Rotary Phone Instruction
When I was in high school, I had a friend over for lunch. She had to call her parents for some reason, and I pointed her to the phone, which was a rotary dial phone. She didn’t know how to use it. I thought it was hilarious that this smart high-schooler didn’t know how to dial a phone.
Here’s a vintage video that shows how, in case you are too young to know how, or had a butler make all your calls when you were growing up.
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Snail News
You know about Gary the snail, our new addition to the fish tank who was an impulse purchase when we were replacing our two deceased goldfish. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, Gary bought the snail farm and slipped the surly bonds of tank.
We were so entertained by Gary’s antics - crawling, munching on algae chips, and so on - that we got another one. At the pet store, I asked the guy if we could get one of those hero snails you hear about on TV news, the ones that call 911 when there is an emergency. He didn’t have any of those, but he did have some blue ones, so we picked one out and took it home.
J made the call that this one was female (no, I don’t know how to tell either), and I have dubbed this one Garina, in Gary’s honor. Garette, Lady Gary, and just plain Gary were also possibilities.
Garina is even more active than Gary was in his prime, often sticking her antennae and feelers and other doodads out of her shell for a quick crawl across the front of the tank. She is fun to watch as she slurps the glass with her mouth, or just hangs out at the top of the water breathing through her natural snail scuba gear.
Garina’s female status was confirmed when we noticed a small baby snail in the tank. It has moved to different places in the tank since it was first sighted, and it looks like it’s growing a little. I call this one Gary Jr. but it might be a Garina, we don’t know. We were worried that more Gary Jr.’s might appear, but so far, we have just one.
As far as the two new fish I reported on earlier, we don't bother watching them anymore. I'm pretty sure they're still in the tank, though. The snail is just so much fun to watch, we look right past the fish.
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Summertime and the Livin' is Easy
The summer fun continues: K went with his friend Max to a Tigers game last week as a present for Max’s birthday. That night, J, M, and I went to Top of the Park to have some pizza and watch live music. The music that night was courtesy of a group from Grand Rapids called Delilah and the Lost Boys and Detroit-based jazz band The Millionaires, who were terrific. Live music is great – I will watch anyone play any kind of live music, even things I would not listen to on the radio. Country, jazz, classical, funk, rock – I like them all when they’re live. Just because the only thing I have on my iPod now are Gregorian Chants doesn’t mean I can’t expand my horizons a little when I have a chance.
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We still have lots on our to-do list for the summer, including lots of grilling, s’more-ing, and traveling. Stay tuned!
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