Everything Everywhere All at Once
Incidentally, have you seen that movie? It's one of my favorites for sure. But that's not what I'm writing about today; many things have happened and many photos, and I was trying to find a "before" photo of Mom's house because she had a new roof put on, new gutters, and had it painted. I was looking through the July photos and realized I hadn't included a few from there. First, here's Mom's house on July 15th, before any work had been started on it. And Ta Da! All done by the end of August. It was certainly done before then, but I can't exactly remember when. The roofers were there on July...
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Flooding the Zone,
which I'm reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that's not what flooding the zone means to...
Cue the Plague of Locusts…
That's what was going through my mind on Sunday morning. Actually, my first thought was "Are you f***king KIDDING me?" Because after all the stuff with Mom's surgery, and she's doing great, BTW, I...
OK then…
Yeah, where have I been? Well, for one thing, Mom and I got back from an impromptu trip to NYC, and we just got back on Tuesday. That's the Tuesday that we just had, June 23rd. We left for NYC on...
Hi there…
Whew, time continues to fly by, and now we're in May, although it feels a little bit like late March because suddenly it's a little bit chilly. A real roller coaster of weather we've been having...
Homeward Bound
I got up ridiculously early on Wednesday, Jan. 28th. The thing is, the ocean was visible from the backyard but I didn't notice it til getting up so early. This was only 7:30 in the morning. I don't...
Our Last Full Day in Florida
Whew, finally nearing the story of of our Florida trip, and now it's already April...anyway, there were many things I wanted to do on this last day, but didn't have time for all of them. It was kind...
Florida Monday
It was chilly and windy on Monday in Florida, as expected. We had a leisurely morning enjoying the lanai overlooking the pool. And we finally managed to get into the car to go to the beach at the...
Florida Sunday
The weather was about to get chilly in Florida, so I figured we'd better take a boat ride and maybe see some dolphins on Sunday, Jan. 25th. But first, of course, we had to go to the grocery store....
Mini Gracetalk!
Today, March 19th, I did a short Gracetalk for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Lincoln Land Community College. I haven't done any Gracetalks at all since 2018, and so I had worked myself into a...