Category Archives: fun

Car-E having fun

January 5, 2021Car-E, cats, funsusanmanzke

My young cat went from one toy to another today.

I caught some of his play in this short video.

After this fun, Car-E went to the dog water bowl and splashed all the water out, but I didn’t notice until I found water on the floor that needed to be mopped up.

Missing mittens

January 4, 2021Columns, Family, funsusanmanzke

A thief must have taken the kids mittens in 1981. Robby and Becky assure me they set them to dry after coming in from playing in the snow and now half of them are gone.

This column was written 40 years ago! Wow, has time flown.

If the mittens weren’t lost, someone chewed the thumbs off of them. There was always something happening to the knitted apparel in our home.

I hope you enjoy this fun column.

What’s behind New Year’s resolutions?

January 1, 2021Columns, Family, funsusanmanzke

Google told me that yearly resolutions started over 4000 years ago in Babylon. People made their resolution (promise) to their gods and kept them so the gods would look kindly on them.

Good thing I looked that up. I thought it was a modern invention.

This column was written at the end of 1980. Here’s what I said about resolutions as the new year (1981) approached.

I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution in a long time. I do not miss the pressure. These days I just do the best I can. Success and failure take their turns with me, but that’s just life.