DeWitty Nebraska

I grew up in the Sandhills, and Dewitty was an hour away from where I lived. It was a settlement of black homesteaders, that I had no idea existed, until I came acorss this historic marker. It is along Highway 83 in Cherry County, Nebraska.

If you're interested and would like to learn more, there's a great article from the National Park Service. There is other information as well if you do a quick Google search. This is why history is important, I lived in the area, and didn't know about DeWitty. I walked around a bit to try to find the base of a house, but it's all prairie now, and covered by the long grass.

The Truth about Generic

With the high prices and inflations, many money saving blogs are talking about buying generic grocery items to save some money instead of buying the name brand products. When I was younger, my mother never bought generic items. She perveiced them as "lesser quality." My sister was trying to get her to buy a generic can of corn, and my mom was against it. My sister insisted that we had it before (it must of accidently been purchased) and that it tasted better than the canned corn we usually got. My mom acquiesced, and bought the corn. That night at dinner, I asked dad what he thought of the corn. He said, "it tastes good, just like fresh picked corn."

Now that I'm older, my husband and I buy generic. Hubs. worked in a bean factory, and guess what, they put the exact same product in the generic can as they did the name brand can. It's the exact same product! Ask someone that works with food, they will tell you the same thing. It's the same, one charges more. Good for the company if they can charge more, but I want to pay the lesser cost for the same product. There are some products that you can't scrimp on, and that depends on you. Me, I need the name brand toilet paper, no generic there. Are there some products that you only buy name brand?

Simpsons Review: My Octupus and a Teacher. A Recent Simpson's Episode that Didn't Suck

It's no secret that the Simpson's aren't what they used to be. To be fair, after 31 years it would be hard to maintain the quality, especially when the Simpson's stay the same and never age The plots rotate around Homer being incredibly stupid (the same problem that befell Peter/Family Guy). You wonder why Marge would stay with him, so it makes her look stupid. Also, how does she afford those dinner where they all sit around the table? A one working parent household without a college education would have Mac N Cheese nights, but I digress. That's why I was pleasantly surprised by the episode, "My Octupus and a Teacher." After a quick search on the internet, it looks like I'm in the minority on this, but let me explain. In the episode, Bart gets a new teacher. She saved him from drowning, but it's further complicated by him having a crush on her.

The suprising part, Homer actually gives good advice. He doesn't act like an idiot, he tries. Chaos of course ensues, but he talks to his teacher, and it ends with a nice chalkboard gag. It had emotions, and it had some stupidity, but wasn't filled with stupidity. Lisa also has a pet octupus, which was very interactive and could live in a jar. Not sure how it stayed alive, but with any cartoon show you have to suspend some disbelief. The octups' name was Molly, and it was cute. It was a nice side plot, especially talking about how documentarians shouldn't interfere. I would be like Lisa, I love animals and would infere. When that elephant was dying of dehydration in the Africa documentary I would have gotten it water somehow. Ricky Gervais says this better than I could.

My point it, it was a nice subplot and a nice episode. Is it a all time great?-no, but it was a nice break from stupid Homer and Marge getting her feelings hurt because pf something her kids say.