Enterprising

If you live in New England like me, odds are good that your yard is covered in acorns right now. In fact, odds aren’t so bad that, like me, you have acorns bouncing off your car, hitting you in the head, and just littering your lawn and driveway.

What might you do? One idea is to rake. Another is to use power equipment.

But someone at the Pottery Barn had a much better idea. They appear to be calling them “oak seeds” and selling them in gift boxes, 2 for $24.

If anyone is interested and doesn’t need a gift box, I’ll flip the numbers and sell you 24 for $2. They’ll be harvested fresh from a New Hampshire farm home.

Dear News Media

Dear News Media,

Can we please have fewer fear-mongering stories about H1N1? And also, can we have fewer stories with titles that basically begin “People Don’t Really Care about…”? Because I really don’t care to read a story about something that people don’t care about. The whole news story is full of people basically saying that the notion of suspending Halloween due to H1N1 is ridiculous. Really, no one sees how ridiculous this is?