Turn, Turn, Turn
I like baseball. I really like it once hockey is done, but the transition (hockey-baseball season, which would be hockey-basketball-baseball season if I were more than a casual b-ball fan) is tough. On the one hand, you’ve got all the hope of a new season, when anything is still possible except seeing Yu Darvish pitch. On […]
Prayer requests or don’t toy with me, okay?
Do you know how seriously I take it when you ask for prayers? I have a list written down (I actually email it to myself so I can keep track of the versions as they change). Every day I get out my Anglican rosary (thanks, Marty!) and if your concern is on my list, it […]
I’d slap him if I could
Chiropractor yesterday, for the first time in too long. (I had to cancel an appointment, and you know how it is. I’d turn over in bed and think, “My neck is bothering me. Oh, yeah. I need to make an appointment.” Or I’d stand up from my desk and thing, “My back hurts. Oh, yeah. […]
What I know about Canada
Well, not everything I know. I mean, when I was a teenager, my family took a day trip from Glacier National Park, where my sister had a summer job, to…somewhere in Alberta. Rich & I spent our honeymoon on Galiano Island.* And my sister and I vacationed in Vancouver for a week a few years […]
Wednesday is really Monday, right?
My alarm didn’t go off this morning. Just didn’t go off. I managed to get dressed & out the door reasonably on time, but I didn’t have time for breakfast. (Peanut butter cheese crackers, the breakfast of champions!) We didn’t have sandwich meat or leftovers, so I have cheese & crackers for lunch. I DID […]
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Continuing saga of the [whispered] bed bugs
Now, mind you, I still don’t think we actually have any, but I’m still not ready to take chances. If you’re just joining us, I spent an hour or so in a motel room in Salina, KS, that—as it turned out—had a bedbug problem. It must have been a new infestation, not established, because I examined […]
When does an interest become a problem?
When it becomes more of an addiction. I was first exposed to napkin folding by GentleWhispering. (Yes, I experience ASMR. I have all my life, as far back as I remember, and I honestly thought everyone else did, too, until not long ago.) I became a little obsessed with remembering all the different folds she […]
Eww eww eww eww EWWW!
I stayed in a motel in Salina, KS, last night, on my way to visit the in-laws in Denver. I checked in, looked for bedbugs as wise travelers are supposed to do, and didn’t find any evidence of them. I stored *almost* everything safely away from the bed, then maybe an hour later, I glanced […]
Learn something new
You, you’re learning that you should absolutely make this, because it really IS the best ever nut brittle. Myself, I learned — or, rather remembered, right after I needed the knowledge — that I really should warm the nuts before mixing them in the hot caramel. That would no doubt make it easier to pour, as […]
My Go-To Dinner
Don’t anybody tell my hub (who is usually my total audience for dinner), but my go-to dinner just barely counts as cooking. One advantage of buying those big old six-pound packages of ground beef at Costco and making meatballs from them is that I end up with, literally, hundreds of meatballs in the freezer. Swedish […]
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