Ah, the joy of a task completed…and one that is visible to others! I have worked off and on all day cleaning the patio which adjoins the flower bed I weeded and mulched earlier. It has been quite hot today so I have had to take it in spurts but it’s done! Lots of leaves…
Monday Maintenance
Sometimes I feel that all I do is maintain and never really make much forward progress. I can easily fill my day with routine tasks – you know, the stuff that has to be done over and over. Every day I make the bed, scoop the litter box, do the dishes, cook meals, feed animals…
Our Silver Wedding Anniversary…
Never in a million years would I have expected to spend my 25th anniversary in a bar watching a pool tournament. But you never know what fun you can have unless you stay open to all that life has to offer. Now that our kids are grown and gone (sort of), David and I are…
A Confederacy of Lunatics…
New Orleans has always been a fabulous place to people-watch so I must admit that David and I were just a bit disappointed during our April visit. We kept commenting on how *normal* everyone seemed — even on Bourbon Street. Oh, perhaps not exactly what you find on Main Street, America, but pretty darn close….
Batteries in the bathroom
I have this thing about leaving the house clean when we go on vacation. Part of it is wanting to have a nice, clean house to come home to but part of it is this idea that if our plane were to crash I wouldn’t want my kids or parents or anyone else to think…
My personal best
My previous record was three posts in one day but the way things are going I just might surpass that today. After all, the best way to cope with a very long to-do list is to post lots of blog entries, right? So what shall we talk about? Oh, I know. How about the way…
Me, again
Two posts in one day and it’s only a little after 8 a.m. Do you think a 16 ounce mug of tea and 32 ounces of coffee is too much to consume before most people even get to work? Or is caffeine like love and you can never have too much? And what about global…
A Two-Pot Day
David had to leave at 4:15 a.m. in order to catch an early flight to Little Rock. There was no reason for me to be up that early but do you think I could go back to sleep? Noooo… even though we hadn’t gone to sleep until after midnight. I finally gave up a little…
The Missing Key
I found it. The missing freezer key, that is. I knew I was the last one to put anything in the freezer so I just couldn’t imagine that I had put the key anywhere but its usual place. I did look around on the floor but between the dog food dish, David’s firefighter equipment, the…