Sierra Mountain Times

I Hate Computers 
I got an email from a cousin the other day with a complaint about how equations in an Excel spreadsheet weren’t automatically updating when she changed an entry in one cell or another. Yet, she reported, when saving and closing the document everything magically updated.
‘Hm,’ I said, email me a sample. I opened […]

Remember When?
Yellow Stuff
As a small child, one of my favorite things to do was sit on a stool in the kitchen and turn the “butter” yellow. 
Actually it was a butter substitute – probably something really awful for you, like lard. When purchased, it came in a plastic bag and was white. It had a small […]

Root Beer: The First Herbal Soft Drink 
It took several years for me to develop a taste for root beer. Actually I was in my early forties before I truly enjoyed it. What caused this change of taste is difficult to determine, but perhaps age and a longing for a gentler time prompted it. Or maybe […]

 
Yeah, I’m stuck in the 60s. But it’s a nice place and time to be stuck in. Ya know, it was 40 years ago this August that the Woodstock Music Festival made history! Also, 40 years ago, Elvis Presley returned to Memphis to record there – for the first time since his historic Sun Records […]

-Thursday the 18th: Early risers tomorrow will get a special viewing treat; the crescent moon, Mars and Venus will be lined up in that order creating quite a lovely image.
-Friday the 19th: Get up sleepy heads, and look to the east!  The glorious “morning star” Venus is lined up with Mars and the crescent moon. […]