Monday Stuff On the Way to Other Stuff: Holding Forth

    Now that taxes are done and paid (yayy!!!), we've been working on tidying up the scruffy hidey-hole that our home has become. Piles are everywhere...but gradually disappearing as we put stuff away, load the dishwasher, etc etc. I know we're making progress, but it can be intimidating. 

Just gotta keep plugging away. 

Maybe a wheelbarrow...or dump truck? (from HouseDigest)

Meanwhile:

Really foolish lottery winners.

Hollywood fashion history -- backstage secrets about various things like Elizabeth's golden cape, Marilyn's 'subway grate' dress and Audrey's little black dress. Fascinating, especially for us textile hounds.

A 'lost' film by George Melies, found at the Library of Congress!  You may not recognize this legendary director's name, but you've probably seen stills from his film "A Trip to the Moon," including Mr. Moon, with a spaceship stuck in his eye. (Poor guy.)

Shakespeare's missing house has been found! (Or located, at least.)

Well, this is interesting...is a stay at a luxurious hotel the same thing as being held without cause by ICE?

Queen Elizabeth's dresser holds forth.  Her viewpoint on the royals, including her employer? Fascinating. 

Weird tweets that actually make more sense than you'd think. Like this one:

Biotech executives not only badmouth a professor, but fake a crime and get him arrested. 

One of the Minnesota  medicaid fraud suspects skips court, forfeits his bond -- and disappears.  Surprise, surprise...

Tattoos that don't mean what their recipients think they mean. 

How much did these rare items sell for??

Yes, these are Dorothy's ruby slippers...

Have a great week. Keep up the good work.

photo (and ideas for a wheelbarrow planter) from Family Handyman

Now That's True Love!

 

Squirrelly Stuff

 

Tax Day Specials and Freebies

 They're here, with specials from Pizza Hut and Popeyes's to 7-Eleven. Click here to find out more.

(Don't bother with the free Goldfish crackers, though. It started at 2:15 p.m. - I checked in at 2:21 p.m. -- and by the time I got done waiting in line at 2:31 p.m., the freebies were gone. Darn.)

"If I see weird stuff, I call them..."

Really?!?   And this one, as well:

Here For You...

 

Does he commisserate over taxes, too??

Monday Stuff On the Way to Other Stuff: TAXES

 This is us.

Papers are everywhere, and the Brick is earnestly staring at the computer screen, announcing numbers and asking questions.  ("Where did you put the mileage figures?") I'm typing this at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. But federal taxes are allllmmmost done -- and state taxes won't take that long. 

     We might make it to bed by 2 a.m. Maybe. We might look like this.

                            But at least the taxes will be DONE.

Guess what else is due this month? Property taxes. It's nice to know that the 'guvment, in spite of its many weaknesses, still knows how to stick it to you. Politely speaking, of course.

Meanwhile:

The ten scammiest people ever to make the '30 Under 30' list.  Forbes, you ought to be ashamed of your collective self.

A very strange set of UFOs glimpsed during a plane flight.  The creepiest part? The pilots, who, when queried, said they see the same performance "every night."

This Oklahoma superintendent should get a medal -- he tackled a school shooter, got shot in the leg -- and saved the lives of his students.

So... how come the "Black Lives Matter" people aren't screaming about the massacre of Nigerian Christians?  John Cleese wants to know...and so do I.

The world is going to end a whole lot sooner than thought -- according to scientists, that is.  (I think we're supposed to be terribly worried.)

The man who dived the deepest.

Talking parrots -- and the dogs and babies they pester!

Have a great week. And if you're not done yet with your taxes, rest up. You're going to need it.