Sep 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
but i started looking up things online and then couldn’t stop…how i wish i’d seen katie couric interviewing sarah palin. there were two of them, last night and the night before. i could have watched, if i’d known about them. i did read many...
Sep 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
maybe the last warm friday afternoon of the year. it’s simply beautiful outside. i’m sitting on the deck and Shadow, who appears to be fully recovered, is lying on the edge of the chair next to me, hoping that i’ll hand him my bowl of carrots with...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just opened the front door AND THERE WAS A FOOTLONG SLUG, up on the porch, headed right for the door! ewwww. WHAT DO WE DO??? i yelled to kevin. SPRINKLE SALT ON IT he said. i know that salt kills slugs, but since i live out here with my nature man and my next-door...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just made a link over there to my friend erica’s myspace page. if you want to read some good writing, with many words, intelligent stuff, funny and good, then please click on that link. good writing. with the words. lots of them. ok then, grace grace...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i thought the summer just whooshed past, i wasn’t sure where it went, it was such a flurry of moving and unpacking and looking for things… but now it’s officially fall and things seem to continue on like this. soon it will be christmas. it’s a...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
it’s saturday evening, i’m getting ready to go out and hear kevin’s band. i have to shower and get ready and all of that. but right now i was checking my e-mail. now, in addition to frequent e-mails from wanda, i’m also getting them from my...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
my friend wanda sends me e-mails about the campaign. lots of e-mails. i post them here sometimes, but sometimes i get overwhelmed and just want to stop reading about the election and go live in france. but this one is really good, so i have to post it now....
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin, hard at work on the floor. doesn’t it look great? you’re welcome to stop by anytime to take a look. mollie, as you can see, is helping as usual. ok then, still saturday morning grace although if i don’t get up soon it will be...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, you have two more chances go to see it. tonight at 8, tomorrow afternoon. Twenty bucks. the best use of twenty bucks i can think of for you to spend this weekend. it’s playing at the hoogland downtown, on 6th street in case you never get downtown. some...
Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
i forgot to mention, on wednesday night before we went to dinner and a movie…i got to mow. mowing here is different than mowing at our old house on longwood. i mowed there this week, and the front and back yards took a total of 35 minutes. speedy. but here,...
Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
already. right now i’m dogsitting for five dogs, and mollie makes a total of six dogs in my care right now. they’re all sleeping. earlier they were all barking. after that, two were howling. prior to that i had to take shortie and gizmo for a walk....
Sep 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
right this very minute i’m typing this on mom’s BRAND NEW FABULOUS COMPUTER. it’s a laptop. red. it’s a gateway, with more memory than my gateway laptop, plus it’s RED. mom had a lot of anxiety about buying a new computer. THERE’S...
Sep 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
…so, yesterday we got lots of things done. cleaning, lots of cleaning, plus kevin finished the new floor on the screened-in porch. oh, and the great big picnic at our house was CANCELLED because of the weather. so that was kind of relief. but today…not...
Sep 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
it didn’t start out so well today…amy said that in the middle of the night he started that horrible screaming kind of sound. but he’s been here at my house since about nine this morning, and he’s acting just like his old self. he has spent a...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
just one more thing tonight. my friend rochelle sent me this piece by arianna huffington: Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush by Arianna Huffington Posted September 8, 2008 | 03:28 PM (EST) Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
i feel that my mood shouldn’t be pure rage. but that’s how i feel right now. if you know me, if you’ve seen me in real life in person, you know how rare the emotion rage is for me. depressed, yes, sad, sometimes, dissatisfied with this or...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
my friend linda just forwarded me this e-mail. i forwarded it to all the women i could think of (and i would e-mail YOU TOO if i had your e-mail address!), but i figured i should put it up here so more people could see it. if you want to look at their website,...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
he continues to lie next to me. the vet told amy that his thyroid level is low. i looked this up online and it’s called hypothiroidism and the good news is that it can be treated with drugs. jim is at the vet right now picking up the drugs for shadow, so...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
first, there’s this: wherever i am, he just quietly lies down beside me. i did get him to drink some water out of a bowl i held in front of him, and he ate some BILJAK, a favorite dog treat of all dogs i’ve ever met even the very fussy and particular...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
this was just sent to me from wanda, who spends her days keeping abreast of all things election-related. Obama and the Palin Effect by Deepak Chopra Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin just sent me a photo of this incredibly delicious-looking pie. no e-mail about the pie, just the photo. then he FINALLY sent me the e-mail he sent out to his co-workers (it must have taken him A YEAR to finally send it. or perhaps four minutes). “In...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve had lots of things to get done this week. in addition to massaging people, there are all those peaches that are about to be overripe. my plan is to cut them up and freeze them today. yesterday i was going to tackle the many many things that still need to...
Sep 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and i just wanted to include a link to this video of barack obama in michigan, but it ended up over the on the blogroll. i tried to move it to the top of the blogroll but i couldn’t. frustrating. i tried to add it to the middle of the post, but i couldn’t....
Sep 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Debate Not Relate s by Jamie Lee Curtis Sept. 3, 2008 The scariest thing I hear about the Palin nomination was that she would appeal to voters because they would be able to relate to her and she to them. I get that. There are many places where relatability is key. I...
Sep 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
along with this house came two peach trees. one is old and very large and in the past it has produced bushels and bushels of peaches. this year, however, only a few. the smaller tree, though, was loaded down with peaches. we picked and picked and picked them and...
Sep 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve been trying to not think about her. i’ve heard that she “energized” republicans and that’s horrible. i received this e-mail today, and so i’m publishing this letter by this woman, Anne Kilkenny. she asked that her e-mail...
Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today i’m tired from all that cooking. but first, the tale of the chair… mom and dad had two plastic adirondak chairs down by the dock. sometime in april, jim and his nephew T.K. were down at the dock fishing and they had one of the chairs on the dock and...
Sep 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
last evening we had a read-through for the latest DANGER: ADULT CONTENT show. remember that? we did one…two years ago? must have been two and a half years ago. last time i got to be a crazy woman turning into a bag lady who carried many things in her purse...
Sep 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
not that she’ll see this. but if you see HER, wish her a happy birthday! here’s a photo of us. she was three and i was nine. isn’t she ADORABLE? i was going to include this in the rolling photos over there on the right side of the screen, like on...
