At the NC house we had a yard full of mature trees, under which one had to walk to get to the vehicles in the driveway. Squirrels lived in the trees, and regularly took exception to our passage beneath them, hurling acorns and pecans and other debris as we passed. One day StE came in with something in his hand. He held it out to me.
"Mom?" It was a steak bone which had been hurled from above and struck him in the shoulder. We both wondered for a few minutes if the squirrels were dragging cows up into the trees, but finally decided we hoped, somewhat uneasily, that one of them had raided some neighbor's yard after a cookout.
Re: pizza boxes... Apparently some grease is acceptable. We recycled a entire dumpster's worth of pizza boxes from a street festival, and I cleared it with the recycler beforehand. But I'm sure it varies wildly, and as always, call your local solid waste management peeps if in doubt. They are used to all kinds of questions.
Question for Christians: Does the phrasing "The church I grew up in" seem funny to you? I guess it's a question for everyone, but I'm wondering if it's an actual thing or if I just made it up.
I have certainly heard that phrase (and I am a cultural Christian, but not a believer.)
Not to me. I've probably said that before.
OK, good, as long as it's not just me. A coworker thought it was weird, and I don't know her religious background.
I probably wouldn't use it, but that's only because quakers don't tend to refer to their services/structure as church. I am always stating that I grew up quaker, but if I am speaking to someone familiar with quakerism, I might say the meeting I grew up in. Use it mainly to differentiate from the current state of affairs, which is none.
I'm so used to the meetings in this area of PA, and the many many Friends schools, that if you said that to me, I'd get it.
Yeah, out here it is a little more familiar. In NM? NSM. It occurs to me I don't hear "the mosque/temple I grew up in" really. But that could be my sample size. And the fact there was one temple in my hometown. And if there was a mosque...well, probably was one on campus, but I actually didn't know of one.
