You don't have to be rich to biddy biddy bum

 

Otherwise, I putz in my yard. I do a bit of writing. Once in a while, I have small get-togethers at my apartment. I’m kind of embarrassed by how deeply satisfying and comforting my simple routines are, and by how much I care for my cats. 

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Happiness is Dave's Good Seed Bread

 Especially toasted with butter and cherry jam, accompanied by scrambled eggs and coffee.

What a breakfast!

 

Happiness is Teenager in Love by Dion and the Belmonts 1959

 

Happiness is being born again

 

Happiness is Wanda Jackson singing her 1957 Fujiyama Mama which was a #1 in Japan for six months in 1958

 

Happiness is a brick collection

 

Happiness is a map of the many cheeses of France

 

Happiness is the nearby hu-hu-hu sound of an owl on a winter evening

 

Happiness is finally discovering the secret to good television reception

 

Happiness is The Bayerische Staatsoper Opern Studio performing Funiculi, funiculà with maestro Villazón

 

Happiness is dark chocolate, despite the "heavy metals" brouhaha

 The Consumer Reports story has now made it to CNBC:

5 brands—including Trader Joe’s—whose dark chocolate tested high for lead, cadmium

When the story first came out I was alarmed because I regularly consume two or three small squares of the very worst chocolate bar in the original report.

Long story short, I calculate that I have consumed 0.72 micrograms lead per day for some time.

In 2022 the FDA fixed the lead limit for women of childbearing age at 8.8 micrograms per day:

The FDA lowered its IRLs for dietary lead to 2.2 μg/day for children and 8.8 μg/day for females of childbearing age.

Like everything else from California, its "maximum allowable dose level (MADL)" is hysterical.

 

I may change brands in the future, but I'm in no hurry.

What? Me worry?

 

Happiness is a wealthy redneck woodstove

 

Happiness is an avocado, but not because it has flavor

 The fruit is of itself very insipid, for which reason they generally eat it with the juice of lemons and sugar, to give it a poignancy.

-- Phillip Miller (1691-1771)

Happiness is beans, beans the magical fruit

 A nutritionist shares the ‘underrated’ longevity food she eats every day to boost her immune system :

According to a 2022 study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, swapping out red meats and processed foods for legumes, whole grains, vegetables can increase life expectancy by more than a decade for people in their 20s or 30s. ...

In fact, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association recommend eating legumes as an alternative to animal proteins to help lower the risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Happiness is the five pillars of a longevity diet

Whole grains like corn, rice and oats (complex carb)

Greens

Tubers, including potatoes and yams (complex carb)

Nuts

Beans (complex carb)

 

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Happiness is chastity, an obscene word which has a tit in it

 

Happiness is a ridinghood in winter

 Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,

Defended by the ridinghood's disguise.

 

-- John Gay (1685-1732)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in New Jersey

 

Happiness is the end of election season

 

Happiness is oats in England, if you are a horse

 

A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. 

-- Samuel Johnson