This is going to be easier than I thought
Rich cleaned out some bookshelves over the weekend (oy, huge mess in the living room for a few hours). After going through the giant stack he pulled out, he came in and deposited a stack of those -type books—you know, the big, thin paperbacks that were always some kind of How To guide or basic […]
When I don’t feel like cooking
Cooking dinner can be a challenge. Not that it’s especially hard to do, most of the time—particularly for those of us with home offices, who can slip out to put the potatoes on or turn down the oven when we need to. It’s the dailiness of the thing. Having to come up with something for […]
Make do (even if you won’t have to do without)
I love making do. That might not come as a surprise because I’m a knitter. I always thought that the image of someone who knits was kind of a genteel hobbyist, someone who appreciates serenity and has great patience. My clever niece pointed out, though, and quite correctly, that knitters are more closely related to […]
One of Life’s Little Condundrums: Laundry Imbalance
I just sorted the mountain of dirty clothes in our bathroom (that’s something I tend to let go when I get busy) and I noticed something odd: Rich had two or three sets of underpants/undershirts/socks for every shirt and pair of shorts in the hamper. I haven’t noticed him changing his underwear and socks twice […]
Happy Labor Day, part 2 (and more Downton Abbey)
We’ve discovered, Rich and I, that we really and truly can’t stop watching Downton Abbey. We zoomed through the seven episodes on Netflix in two nights, then happily connected a laptop to the TV in order to start streaming the next series/season through Amazon. We watch it free on Amazon because we’re Prime members. Just […]
Happy Labor Day!
I can’t believe it’s September already! I can’t believe it’s the 2nd and I haven’t changed all the calendars yet! (That might be easier to understand when you learn that I have four calendars just in my office, and one of the ones in the kitchen is a rack with little squares the I have […]
Sunday Afternoon in August
Okay, the sheets on our bed are changed, we have clean towels. The violet farm in the bathroom has been tended to and the extravagant window ledge they sit on cleaned. There’s a load of clean dishes drying in the dishwasher, and I’ll put them away once they’re finished. The last time I made broccoli […]
Learn how to knit
In the last few weeks, in addition to dealing with all things Oktoberfest, I’ve learned how to knit two-at-a-time top-down socks (or, actually, mitts) AND two-at-a-time toe-up socks. Seriously, what knitting frontiers are left for me, other than lace…which my attention span is much too short to allow.
Dinner
Dinner prep took three sessions today, though it was just because I didn’t want to spend too much time at one stretch. Boil the eggs, make the homemade Ranch dressing. Assemble the Butter Burger patties and get them ready to cook. Mix and fill the deviled eggs, chop the olives for Rich’s Wimpy Burgers*. And […]
It’s hot
It’s hot. Hot as in 106° in Southlake right now, and the predicted high for today is 109°. It’s 3:28pm, so we’re half an hour into the high demand period for electricity. Ercot, the people who control these things, are begging people in our area to cut back on electricity usage between 3 and 7pm […]
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