Rain!

That means no weeding for me, but at least, I don't have to water the tomatoes. Busy, busy day. More to come later this weekend...stay tuned!

Nuggets for June 10

Happy Birthday to my brother, AJ. (Now we're all in a row--37, 38, 39)

Here are a few goodies for the rest of you, in honor of today's birthdays and the political season.

In the news
Just in case you missed Hillary Clinton's trip to the hospital, Barack Obama shadowed a nurse in St. Louis today.

I hope no one coded on you, Senator.

After all the stories about bad tomatoes in the news lately, maybe buying local is the best thing after all.
Boosting health with local food (from www.nytimes.com)


The weird section
Monkeygirl always has something interesting, and I just about fell over when I read this one:
Life's little drain plug

It reminded me of Terry's post from earlier this year (from Counting Sheep) called Speechless.

Let them read this over your shoulder at work...
Showing the patient the door...permanently (from www.nytimes.com)
People were actually gasping behind me when they read this one over my shoulder yesterday.
It may have something to do with the fact that our docs might actually enjoy this with a couple of specific patients.