Day: February 4, 2019

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A Bow Tie Begins The Countdown To Valentine’s Day

Banana Cufflinks o’ the Day are fruitly whimsical, while red-and-gold, elegant Bow Tie o’ the Day begins a week of Valentine-y neckwear.

Valentines can be for everyone you love, but they are primarily for the one you love in the Cupid sort of way. If you haven’t yet made your Valentine’s Day plans for you and your one-and-only, you better hop to it. Time’s running out, and V-Day matters.

Should you treat your flame like every day is Valentine’s Day? Yes, you should. But daily life requires we do other things– like go to work, take care of the kids, do our taxes, get the car aligned, etc.. So it is imperative that you at least grab the one day a year designated for celebrating Cupid love, and make it a superb and unforgettable day for the two of you. If you stay with your soulmate the rest of your life– even if you both live long beyond your life expectancies– when you’re finally taking your leave from this planet, you’ll wish you still had more Valentine’s Days together. Trust me.

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The First

Four wood Bow Ties o’ the Day have arranged themselves into an interesting frame, to highlight a tremendous milestone in my family: Mom’s and Dad’s first grandchild. Of course, that means the little rugrat is my first nephew. Jeff Tucker has been in the family for around five decades now. Today is his birthday, so “Merry birthday, Jeff!”

In this picture, from left to right: Mom; Jeff; my grandpa, Leroy Anderson; my grandma, Zola Wright; and little ol’ me with my straight bangs. The grown-ups are overjoyed in this photo. Jeff is wide-eyed at all the attention, and I look somewhat stunned. But you can easily see Mom is absolutely gleeful.

Mom worked as a “lunch lady” at the high school during this time. When she learned Jeff had finally been born, Mom dressed up in a gray wig, tossed a shawl over her work apron, and grabbed a cane. She walked into work looking like the stereotype of a doddering old grandma, yelling, “I’m a grandma! I’m a grandma!”