Ree Drummond, has cultivated the blog seed she planted back in, oh, 2006, into a major brand. You know it: The Pioneer Woman. It has grown from stories and pictures of her family’s enormous ranch in Oklahoma to include a TV cooking show, a product line at Wal-Mart, re-purposed buildings in small Pawhuska: The Merchantile and an in progress boarding house. She has done very well. I forgot to mention the cookbooks and her pets, primarily Charlie, a basset hound who was the subject of one of her books.

Charlie did what dogs do when they get old – he passed away. Unfortunately, he was one of the faces of The Pioneer Woman brand. She got another basset, Henry, and wrote how much like Charlie he was. On March 7th, she wrote an entry in the section known as Confessions and addressed the issue of Henry being just like Charlie and maybe the family should just accept it and call him Charlie. She was voted down. Thank Heavens. One would hate to think of the successful Charlie being nothing more than an advertising cog in the Pioneer Woman brand.

I don’t want to infringe on any copyright protected material, so I will not quote the entry, nor show a screen shot, but I would refer you once more to Old Man Henry (Charlie) on her blog. And maybe we should wonder what would happen should anything happen to Marlboro Man.

Daylight Savings Time is here in Indiana once again. It is my chronological Joe Biden. (I can’t stand that man.)

On the first day of DST, I am going to a movie in Auburn because I went to a movie early last fall and it was in the previews, scheduled to come out in November. It’s the remake of Death Wish and how bad or good the movie is is of no longer any importance.

You see, having seen the original years ago and again now and then on some movie channel, I was curious about Bruce Willis in the role. I wanted for November, but there were no ads for the movie; where did it go? Finally, I found out it was to be released in early January 2018; that was a big, fat lie. So, now, in March, it is in theaters – but it did not come to our comfy, refurbished Strand Theater here in Kendallville.

I am biting the bullet and going to Auburn for the matinee – tickets $5. I bought them online for the 2 o’clock showing and printed out my precious barcode receipt. I also received a coupon for a free small popcorn which can be upgraded to a larger size. Unfortunately, I have fallen flat-faced off my diet and really should not print out this coupon. HA! Who am I to fly in the face of tradition?