Imbibing

Big man, shirtless, with his bottle of 'root beard' for a treat on a hot day.  Made me laugh :)  And the pictures make me think, again, 'Sheesh, we need a new couch!'

Speaking of drinking, I was telling someone a story from high school the other day, and they didn't really laugh.  Maybe it's not funny or maybe they didn't get it (or maybe they weren't listening).  I can't remember who it was...hope it wasn't a blog reader!  The story was about when I gave an oral biographical report on an author in senior year British literature.  I chose Charlotte Bronte.  Toward the end of the report, I explained that she died of alcoholism (which seemed a bit surprising to me, but hey, that's what the book said).  My teacher was so shocked and asked me where I'd read that, and that she had never heard that.  To which I replied, "It was in such and such book...it said that she died of consumption."  Hee hee :)

(She laughed and explained to me that consumption is a synonym for tuberculosis, in case you also didn't know :)