When I was a kid we were stationed for four years close enough to spend summers with my mother's parents. My grandmother was a health nut back when people thought it was lunatic and she would have us get parsley from the garden, wash it, and put it in the freezer wet. When we came back in hot, the parsley was so cool and refreshing both in taste and state.

I have hulled sunflower seeds for the birdfeeder (the hulls make good mulch, but the condo org won't go along with that) and every time I open the metal bin I keep it in, I think of that grandmother -- she would give us a handful of sunflower seeds for a snack.

I've had friends here putting my new bedroom furniture together the last few days and one was surprised by a rainbow on the living room wall. That's from the same grandmother -- she hung crystals in the kitchen window which faced east so there were rainbows all morning. I only have north and west windows, but the west window is in the kitchen and we get rainbows part of the afternoon when the sun is out. Just as well, I usually get up at noon.