I'm not sure if it's because the general mood is to eat healthy or the loss of small 'Mom & Pop' enterprises, but you can't seem to find small candy stores any more.

As a kid, I remember two candy stores in my old neighborhood. They had candy bars, penny candy, cold soda pop and small bags of chips.

When you went to town, stores like Woolworth's and Kresge's (the forunner of K Mart) had candy you could buy by the pound: chocolates (like 'stars' and chocolate drops), jelly beans and other forms of candy you couldn't buy close to home.

Lately I've been craving bon bons & coconut filled chocolate drops. An internet search has dampened that desire. At a bare minimum, simple chocolate drops with vanilla filling goes for $6.00 a pound. Bon bons and coconut filled chocolate drops are a minimum $15.00 a pound.

I guess I'll have to be content eating Mounds bars.

Oh, for a time machine!

Every time I check the weather in London, England it is about 20 degrees higher than the weather here in the midwest.

I'm seriously considering moving there for the winters.

~

An unusual Valentine's Day song:

I hope everyone has the chance to take this song literally:


Enjoy!

I dreamed last night that all criminals were miniaturized and put on a farm way out in the country.

How soon before we can make this a reality?

~

... parlez vous.

Peter Jackson, who directed all of those Lord of the Rings movies, produced and directed this magnificent documentary about WWI:


It is magnificent.

~

I liked this song when it first came out:


I heard it Sunday on the local oldies station while in my car. After re-hearing the lyrics, it made me think that maybe, with a little spy camera, it would make for an excellent stalking opportunity.

I found out today that Robert Conrad, star of the 1960s and 1970s t.v. shows "The Wild Wild West" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" has passed away at age 84.

He started out as a stunt man and on The Wild Wild West did his own stunts. That show was a western, but Conrad played James West, a U.S. Secret Service agent. It was billed as 'James Bond meets the wild west'. It aired for 5 seasons and was quite popular.

Baa Baa Back Sheep was a show about American pilots in the South Pacific during WWII.

Robert was known as a tough guy. He did commercials for a battery company where he would put a D cell battery on his shoulder and dare you to knock it off.

The Wild Wild West aired on CBS during my formative years, 1965 - 1970. Reruns are still shown even today.

I miss the show and will miss seeing Conrad.

Another hero from my past gone like dust in the wind.

We used to say:

"Killing two birds with one stone."

Now we say that's multi-tasking.

We used to say:

"Let me check my answering machine."

Now we say we're checking our voicemail.

And one more...

The # symbol used to mean pound.

Now it's "hashtag."

There's many, many more. I just used those to make a point and that is that everything changes. Becomes modernized, I suppose. I like to use the old terms, simply to confuse people who aren't old like me. lol

... and they keep dragging me back in.

Politics.

No one is immune to the nasty business and sometimes you can't help but speak your mind, I guess.

I AM trying to curb my tongue, though. It was meant for better, more satisfying things.