Beneath the Wraps

                 I was driving when the phone signaled that I had received a text.   Jenna opened it and announced it was a picture sent from a furniture company!   She didn’t understand why they were sending a picture of their logo.   She placed her foot on the dashboard, took a picture of it and hit the reply button to the furniture company.   I don’t know if the company received this picture or not, but I was amused.  I smile each time I look at it.           It turns out that there was a survey attached – which may come up right away in the average touch-screen phone but not my flip phone.   I did not take the survey.

I vaguely remember the toaster oven that my mom had purchased.   I thought it was a neat device for making things crisp.   One year, after being dissatisfied with the way the reheated pizza crust came out in the microwave, I had asked Roland for a toaster oven. The particular modle he had purchased was far more sophisticated than my mom’s had been.   I believe there were five settings to reheat, toast, broil and actually cook food.   But not an entire meal for three people.   I didn’t dislike the toaster oven, but it wasn’t as fast as I believed my mom’s had been.   I had thought the waiting time had been longer than the microwave but not much more than an actual toaster.   I now believe it is equivalent to an actual oven.   Perhaps there is less wattage involved.   I don’t know.   My main desire for the toaster oven was to toast things that were too fat or messy for the actual toaster – but without the wait of an actual oven. ...

I can strike a match to light up a room or start a fire to toast marshmallows I can play different versions of match game For example, I've tried to learn about which flag goes with what country by matching one to the other I can attempt to paint the shutters and trim to match the rest of the house. I can mix and match socks I get tired of trying to match assignment problems with the responding exercise found in the book an electronic book I might add I would like my clothes to match Occasionally I would like to match the face to the voice We've been through quite a few furniture pieces that didn't match. you remember this scene from Frasier?  We had worse cases than Martin's chair. Some librarians and instructors will read books and set up an activity The activity matches themes based upon the book There is a lot of competition in the retail business.   So many try to match anot...