A Word in Your Eye

Here in Japan, there was a TV special on about Tasha Tudor. She's the author of children's books (Corgiville Fair?) about 90 when the show was made, and lived in the Vermont mountains somewhere. Lots of fun bits about her life, but when they were complimenting her about her habit of carrying flower seed and scattering it, showing a field that she had planted over the years, she protested that she had learned that from Alexander Graham Bell. When the narrator asked what she meant, she smiled and said that Alexander Graham Bell always had a pocket full of Lupin seeds and planted it everywhere he went. And as a close friend of his daughter, she learned to do the same, although she uses other flowers.

Alexander Graham Bell as a "Johnny Appleseed" of flowers. I wonder if that made the official biographies. Fun!

Just a tiny little quirk in an advertisement we saw recently. See, they were talking about how much of something this wonderful drink has in it, and they said it has 10,000 mg.

I laughed, because if I remember correctly, mg stands for milligrams. So I think 1,000 mg is just one gram. 10,000 mg really means ten grams. A lot easier to say, although I guess it doesn't sound quite as impressive. Our drink has ten grams of good stuff, or our drink has 10,000 mg of good stuff? Which one sounds more impressive to you?

Me, I'm avoiding the whole question by not drinking that healthy drink, but . . .