It’s hard to stick a peep on your forehead successfully…..

 

Once a year I get the extreme pleasure of eating peeps! Every Eastertime I get a few through thefts from my daughters or the gift of peeps. I probably never bought my own (in the past 30 years), and more than maybe four would make me sick. But, when I get them I smile.

I had one from a small Easter basket I received on Saturday night at a dinner party, and some more on Sunday.

It was Sunday evening at the end of dinner, and I was sitting around talking and decided, maybe this part isn’t so normal, that I could probably stick a half peep, head facing out, on to my forehead and it would be sort of a third eye. It should have been sticky enough to stay and I’d make my daughter scream at me and kill herself laughing!

What a funny guy I am. How dumb can a 72 year old man be but to stick wet candy on his head?

The experiment failed, as I hit my wine glass on the way up with the peep, and spilled my remaining wine into my plate thankfully and not completely onto the table or my family. On top of all that, the peep didn’t stick and everyone looked at me trying  to do something weird, and I couldn’t stop laughing! I could hardly breathe it was so funny, but just to me!

I Have Written Six Stories About Razors

I have written six stories about razors, I guess about shaving as well. Two of them were about Ockham’s razor so they may not count, however, the razor stories will now continue. I wrote on April 23, May 3, September 25, 2009 and June 6, 2010, April 4 and June 9, 2013, and today.

I kind of love shaving. I may seem obsessed when you look at the number of times I’ve written about it, but since I do it at least once a day, I have some things to say about it.

As a kid, when I first started, I liked thee razor and spent some time trying out all the kinds one could buy. I had Gillette Blue Blades and the more modern Schick dispenser, and even bought a Rolls Razor which self-sharpened and nearly cut my face off trying to get a good shave forever, for free.

In this world of mass produced things, one does not expect to find and real custom items unless you are willing and able to pay for them. I am neither willing nor able, so this story is not about some special custom product, although it truly seems like it. I discovered somehow through social media, “Harry’s Razors”.

I receive no product endorsement for anything I do, I have not too much impact, but it seems appropriate that when I find something really good, I let my friends know about it.

It seems through their web site information that two guys went out to battle the giants and make a great razor. They sell the razor, the custom made blades and a shaving cream at a fair and reasonable price, competitive with all the big boys, and it works great!

They were marketing a new Canadian version and I saw it and was intrigued. It was simply their regular product in Canadian Red. As well, they were shipping to Canada. Yes, it cost more to get it here and I was going to ship it to my US address, my mother-in-laws house, but I wouldn’t get it for months until we went there. So, I bit the bullet and sent it to my house.

You can view their stuff at https://www.harrys.com. Maybe just because my father’s name was Harry, I bit. It is a great product. There is beautiful packaging, and as an artist it is greatly appreciated. I don’t love the shaving cream particularly as I like the gel stuff in a can from the drug store, but it’s OK. The blades are made in Germany and last a long time. They have many layers, much like the big Gillette ones and last about the same length of time (about 2 weeks for me) for less money per piece. They ship directly to you and you can buy or get on a regular shipping plan. They come in many beautiful styles and colours.

I wrote to them the other day to ask about the little plastic blade cover that comes with the first razor, and wondered if I could get another one or two to protect my blade in my shaving kit. The amazing thing was a real guy wrote back and said he’d send them to me that day, for free, and he even knew where I lived by my email so he didn’t need more information.

These are honest people with a great product going up against the establishment (it’s a 60’s thing I know) and I think everyone should give them a try!

No punch line here, just a nice feeling knowing I can help influence a few folks.

Here’s another great review I found:
http://menshair.about.com/od/shavingproductreviews/fr/A-Review-Of-Harrys-Shaving-Products.htm

 

 

Great to see you too…have you seen the girls lately?

 

 

Many years ago we bought my youngest daughter this doll and she loved it for a long time. After many years, we went through her toys with her, and made some decisions, as usual, about toy disposal. We are happy to keep anything the girls want, but there is no reason to store them when someone else can use them. This doll, purchased before the turn of this century, was one of those pieces sent on to the Dramatic Play area of the Boys and Girls Club in Hamilton.

My other daughter is a clothes collector and shops lots of vintage items. This purse was a later purchased, used, bought about 2005. This also, at a later date, was donated to the Dramatic Play area of the Hamilton East Boys and Girls Club.

These two pieces never got there at the same time, and the area is heavily used all year long. So the surprise was on March 27, 2014, as my wife walked into the area, the two pieces would be sitting, as you see them on a shelf.

The title,” Great to see you too…have you seen the girls lately?” is my idea about what they must be saying in this fantasy world.