Catching Up

Just a few snippets to get me caught up.

I, the new grandmother, babysat the new grandbaby for the first time this morning. We did some 'tummy time', and some swing time. After that, it was snack time, and then it was nap time. I don't know why they call it 'tummy time', but that's ok. It's a big deal now to give babies tummy time everyday. Apparently, not all babies get enough of it, so they have no desire to lift their heads. It's something like that. I wonder if Sarah Palin's kids all got tummy time.
We never had to worry about it because 'back in the day', putting babies to bed on their tummies was THE preferred method. It's a mega no-no now.

I always check the headlines from PC World, and they listed their top 12 favorite & promising, new websites. Read the article here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/151033/12_promising_new_web_sites_and_services.html
I tried one of them: iSearch It's a people search engine. All it did was annoy me. I searched a few family members and the results were pretty bad. They had too many middle initials for me. My phone number is listed, even tho it's unpublished. Several of my listed relatives have been dead for years. A sister's results also had errors. Her age made her about 5 years older than she is. Her husband's name was listed correctly, but also incorrectly. A daughter's results had the most errors. It listed her as living in a far away city, and her phone number was a combination of my number, and the far away city's area code. She hasn't lived in any far away city in over 7 years.
I sent them a feedback asking them to suppress my listing. That's funny. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Their FAQs say that they're working on a suppression thingy.
So, I don't like the site one bit. It didn't just annoy me. It made me pretty angry. There's that other people finder search engine which does the same thing. There's nothing new about this one. They all get around privacy issues by saying that all their information is gathered from public records.

I'm trying to figure out when to pick my 11 pumpkins. They're organic. (I like to throw that in.)
Some articles tell you to wait til they're orange, some say it's ok to pick them when they're still kind of green - they just have to make the right sound (hollow) when you thwack them. Most articles will tell you to be SURE to leave some stem on, AND to wash the pumpkin, and the stem in a 10% solution of water and clorox. I picked one because I accidentally chopped the vine. It's the best pumpkin of all - it looks just like Cinderella's coach. I'll take a picture of it soon if it doesn't rot. I haven't done the Clorox treatment yet. It could be filled with horrid bugs by now.
This seems to be the best article on the subject:
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/vegetable/how-to-tell-when-pumpkins-are-ripe.htm

I'm a fairly regular reader of Jesse Kornbluth's Head Butler. He used to be the editorial director at AOL. He also used to do a column over on Beliefnet - it was pretty political. His blood pressure must have been over the top. The Head Butler does reviews - books, movies, wine, whatever. So, today's review is on the book Water Consciousness, edited by Tara Lohan. The main reason why I'm even mentioning it is because there's a link to a neat calculator that calculates your water footprint. It's called the H2O Calculator. I forget how much water I use everyday, but it's less than average. It said I drink way too much bottled water. I'd drink faucet water, but mine tastes either like worms, or Clorox. Sometimes, it just tastes swampy. Maybe the tap water would have enough chlorine in it to kill the bugs that are probably invading my picked pumpkin.

I think that about does it. Time to go pull out the rest of the 10 foot cosmos plants. They got way too tall, and the windy night we had Sunday night blew them all over. Most of them broke.