Hello and Welcome! I’m Eppinese Estelle your hostess. I hope you are well. Perhaps I should say “Aloha”.
This time I’m going to try something a little bit differently…let’s see how it goes.
Today we’re going to discuss:
The VW commercial
Automatic Soap Dispensers
New Drivers’ License and Plates
Looking at the Planets for June
Best times for different things
Now you are probably wondering why I have on a lei and hat? Today I’m dressing Hawaiian in honor of King Kamehameha Day June 11. He united the Hawaiian Islands 1795 and June 11 is considered a state holiday. In North Kohala it is an especially special place to celebrate as Kamahameha I was born in North Kohala and residents there played a prominent role in saving his life as an infant.
Gee it seems that just a couple of weeks ago we were all grabbing a lightweight jacket of some sort as we ran out the door! The field across the road has corn coming up – it’s about 1 inch tall right now.
I probably watch more television than I should but there is a couple of commercials out right now that just drive me to distraction:
The automatic soap dispenser: “never touch a dirty pump again’. Now, come on! It’s a liquid soap dispenser or a bar of soap. And I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that the normal everyday person isn’t doing surgery! You are washing your hands for cryin’ out loud!! Any dirt or germs are being washed off, after you pump the soap into your hands!
Ok, is it just me or is Volkswagen trying to start a new fad or whatever? I mean come on people! The slugging someone in the arm and calling the car color “blue one” is totally incorrect! That was reserved for the Volkswagen beetle and the ‘slug bug’ punch in the arm was only for the beetle! And! If you slugged someone in the arm and it wasn’t a beetle you got slugged back harder for messing up! Now, I must be getting old but one mini-SUV or station wagon looks pretty much like another at quick glance. So how do I know I am correct when I slug someone thinking it’s a VW? Nope, gets way too confusing…There is no mistaking the silhouette of a VW Beetle. Back to the think tank VW!
Well, since we moved to a new state we had to get new drivers’ licenses and car plates. Fortunately, our licenses were still valid and we just had to take an eye exam. For such a little place the drivers’ license office was really busy and quite up to date technology-wise. I was quite impressed!
I will try to not drag this out too much, but it involved 2 trips back to the house (4 miles round-trip) I kept forgetting stuff; and several phone calls to my husband at work…he was unable to talk to me…so I resorted to an email, asking where the car registration was (we had to get replacements because the originals were packed away somewhere—safe.
Then I had to have a current proof of insurance – the card I had expired last year…naturally! So I had to call them and then I managed to freak the woman out when I told her we had moved. She went all in a dither and I said, “Look, just FAX me what we have now and we can do the transfer stuff later…I’m at the DMV right now and really don’t have the time to update this right now.
So, okay when I walked back in and up to the window the paper work was ready and we were waiting for the FAX…I guess as so often happens with Faxes in an office, someone tore off my fax and put it aside as it wasn’t theirs…so 15 minutes later the woman went to the back and started looking for it…
Anyway…I’m still in a state of shock at how nice people are here! Even at the DMV!! Now, if we could just get those photos to look better….
Special thanks to the Old Farmer’s Almanac at http://almanac.com for the following sky-cast:
Look for a striking, close meeting of orange Mars and Leo’s blue star Regulus during the first 10 days of June. They’re well matched in brightness but identifiable by the stark color contrast. A nice drama unfolds also in the hours before dawn: Jupiter, having crossed into Pisces a month ago, hovers below the Moon on the 6th and then passes very near blue-green Uranus from the 7th to the 11th. Binoculars easily show Uranus above Jupiter. Look for the crescent Moon below Venus on the 14th and use binoculars to see Venus within the lovely Beehive star cluster on the 19th and 20th. Summer begins with the solstice, on the 21st at 7:28 A.M.
Full Moon 26th day 7th hour 30th minute
Quit Smoking: June 4, 9
Begin diet to lose weight: June 4, 9
Diet to gain weight: June 17, 21
Cut hair to discourage growth: June 4, 5
To encourage growth: June 15, 16, 19, 20
Best Fishing days: June 12 – 26
That’s all for now, I hope to see you at the next Coffee Klatsch. Take care.
