I'm happy to report that the weather today was ideal for the annual pool party slash barbecue at our neighborhood club. Even I was happy to be in the water swimming about. (I'll be even happier when Julie learns to swim; it's nerve-wracking having to worry about a non-swimmer all the time. Swimming lessons start in another week, and she seems enhusiastic, so we'll see. This year she doesn't mind taking off her glasses, so that ought to help.)
Anyhow, I was once again assigned an appetizer for the potluck portion, so I made this truly bizarre dip that I will post about tomorrow (I know I promised another recipe the other day and failed to come through, but I'll get to them all. I really will.) It was a big hit, despite being really yucky-looking.
Meanwhile, I'm thinking of producing a line of Father's Day cards that aren't about golfing, fishing, hogging the remote, farting, manning the grill, putting the seat first up and then back down, or mowing the lawn. Would you buy one?
I suppose, but...what else do they do?
Posted by: Susan Barr | June 18, 2006 at 10:14 PM
I make my own cards on the computer, so I am not at the mercy of the card companies. When I see how much cards cost these days, I freak out!
Posted by: Margaret | June 18, 2006 at 11:57 PM
You should see the one my kiddos got me. It's all decked out like a VHS tape sleeve touting the virtues of dad's adventures in Indiana Jones style. (One bit does say the film earned five remotes, which I guess is equivalent to two thumbs-up or something.) Very clever. They know me so well.
Posted by: scott | June 19, 2006 at 12:00 AM
YES! Also, your line should banish the color brown - brown leaves on stately brown trees with rolling brown wheat fields beneath ... brown country lanes lined with split rail fences ... eccch. I don't know what Hallmark is thinking.
Posted by: pam | June 19, 2006 at 12:36 AM
And Karen, you seem like a nice lady; you may want to avoid the philosophy behind this sardonic collection:
http://www.officepirates.com/officepirates/fyi/0,26102,1203826,00.html
Posted by: pam | June 19, 2006 at 12:42 AM
I'm intrigued. What, in the opinion of women, would good greeting cards for men look like?
Posted by: scott | June 20, 2006 at 09:30 PM
I don't mind the humorous ones, I just mind the stereotypes of the farting, channel-surfing, golfing idiot that Hallmark seems to think is the norm. And the sentimental ones shouldn't all look like every guy goes to a rod 'n gun club every Saturday. Just normal stuff, I guess!
Posted by: Karen | June 20, 2006 at 09:37 PM