Potpourri.

Wanted to remind you guys to check out the comments from Monday, Dona added one for DR and Mary added one for Dona.

Miscellaenous stuff today. I am calling it potpourri. First up, does money make people happy? The first reaction all of us will have to that question is no. The following article would disagree with us?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100906/ap_on_sc/us_sci_money_can_buy_happiness

I don't think being rich would make me happy but if I had enough money so that there weren't any limitations in my life that would most likely make me happy. But if I was filthy rich I'd probably give most of it away. How about you does money make you happy?

What would you want to see if you visited Germany? The beautiful outdoors? Well here is a guided tour you may be interested in:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100903/od_nm/us_toilet_tours_odd

So when you visit Germany is the above tour going to be number one on your list of tours to take?

I am a fan of lists. I love a good lists. The following would qualify as a good list:

http://www.shelterpop.com/2010/09/03/what-to-do-with-mason-jars-projects/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk1%7C168421

Are you getting rid of hand soap now? Any things that you want to add to the jar list?

I'm at Mom's today so may not respond to comments until tonight. I also have to return the chafing dishes and other stuff to the caterers today. Will report on the party later this week. Probably will report on both the guy party and the company picnic on the same day. May this be a great day for all of you!

WHO AM I? Yesterday's answer, Lillian Wald.

I was born in 1947 and died in 1996. I was an American conservationist who graduated degree in philosophy and had two master's degrees, one in forestry and on in public administration. My Harvard education led me to a position I oversaw the successful reintroduction of the gray wolf into northern Rocky Mountains. Conservationists immediately embraced my appointment to that position as the ultimate victory. My grandmother was a self-educated botanist and landscape artist who knew every tree by its Latin name. I said of grandmother "Her wackiness intrigued me as a kid, she seemed a little freer than everybody else." My grandmother would be seen outside in her nightgown at 5 a.m. toting her 4-10 shotgun in search of opossums disturbing her garden. My Mom also has a fiercely independent streak and devotion to nature. As a young girl I would catch mice in the winter and make them a home in an aquarium, feeding them hamster food. In spring, when food was more plentiful, I would release them. Heading an agency was not easy for me. A few months after my arrival in D.C. I was quoted as saying "My hardest adjustment was the lack of darkness at night, living in a place that's never quiet. The confinement of it. I'm used to absolutely unadulterated privacy. That's hard. It's a real loss that I can't just wander off into the woods." During my watch at the Fish and Wildlife Service, another 15 wildlife refuges were added, more than 100 conservation habitat plans were agreed on between landowners and the government, and the gray wolf was reintroduced into the Northern Rockies. There was no television in my house, and in the living room hung a painting of a woman standing with her hand on an oak tree. The woman is depicted speaking, but instead of words, oak leaves are coming out of her mouth. The picture was titled "A Woman Who Speaks Trees." I served as the first woman director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Who Am I?