Saturday, January 26, 2008

Two more thoughts...

1. What is the statue of limitations in terms of how long a completed jigsaw puzzle must remain sitting on a dining room table before being dismantled? Is there a formula based on the amount of time it took to complete it? We took three weeks finishing this triangular-shaped balloon puzzle....and now that it's finished, it seems very unsatisfying to put it away. Yet should we keep it forever as a trophy to the world showing what I did?

Two to three days seems about right....just to reinforce to each of us that we achieved a great accomplishment.

(It's kind of like books in a bookshelf. Why do we keep books we've already read? As a tribute to what we read? If we never think we're going to read it again, we should immediately donate it to a library...why take up valuable house space showcasing what we've already read.)

2. Sometimes I worry that we aren't doing enough for food storage.
But then I cleaned out the car the other day and realized we're just keeping our food storage in the car! I probably vacuumed out a day or two supply of Goldfish, fruit snacks and other sundry items that seem to preserve quite well. And better to have it in the car than in the home as it's mobile in case you have to evacuate. Plus, no matter how many goldfish crackers are in the car seat already, it seems like you can always fit more, so storage is never an issue.....

Mark

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