May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i told kevin that maybe we should clean the gutters today since it’s supposed to rain tonight, and all the gutters have little trees growing out of them because of the one hundred million spinners. so this morning he said i could help him, and he got...
May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
and the highlight of my day was eating a chocolate chip off the dining room floor. well, there were some other good things about the day, but usually if there’s something on the dining room floor, it’s a piece of dry cat food, not a delicious,...
May 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night i overdid it a little with the yard work, and we went to be before 10! this morning i got up a little after six, so clearly i’m turning into an old lady who gets up at the crack of dawn. well, i’m not entirely sure what time the sun rises, so i...
May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
…and it feels like spring again. it was finally warm enough to be outside yesterday, very nice. here’s mom working on the stone we made to put over dad’s ashes under the peach trees down by the lake. we had marked the spot with a shell, and we...
May 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday, a little rocky, but today promises to be better. for one thing, kevin is coming home. he’s been gone since wednesday, at the North South Skirmish Association spring national civil war shooting competion in winchester, VA. or the soggy excuse for it...
May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
after 15 unbelievably horrific days in the hospital, dad had a “miraculous recovery,” and the doctor came in and talked about moving him home after the weekend, and dad was so happy and felt good and joyfully drank a chocolate shake. and a year ago today,...
May 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i went to the grocery store with randy and a bottle of wine leapt out of our cart and dramatically CRASHED to the floor, shattering all over the place, and it was red wine, so a huge red pool oozed all over the place. but it was in no way my fault! so,...
May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
i did spectacularly break a butter dish last night, with no effort at all. i was trying to get a can of diet root beer out of the pantry and somehow managed to CRASH the glass butter dish to the floor, with many, many little shards of glass everywhere. nothing broken...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
in between feeling bad about my dad, and about mollie, and about stuff that i feel bad about here in this month of may, i have been creating wide swaths of mayhem and destruction. not intentionally. first, the power washer – i was so looking forward to cleaning...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
saturday was a very big day. first, the Fat Ass 5k, which was actually pretty fun. the race started at the very civilized hour of 10 a.m. here’s kevin, dressed in his civil war garb, so that he could fire the opening shot of the race and then sprint along in...
May 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
so if i have any readers out there still, just so you know, they suspended my site cause i had malware, and i had to pay to have some service delete the malware, but it’s some site that charges per year, so now i’m covered for a year but they sent me a...