(or possibly, how #Elfquest changed my life) (Warning, super geeky content ahead!) It was 20 years ago today (give or take) that I met the man who would become my husband. I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons since high school, though I would have loved to play earlier than that I didn’t have anyone to…
Today was a wonderful day: The dog woke me up at 6:30 I made coffee, ran out to get some donuts for breakfast, and had breakfast on the porch. I unclogged the vacuum and washed out the filter. No wonder it wasn’t working, it had a warren of dust bunnies and a very clogged filter! I…
For pretty much all of my adult life I have had a dream house. I’m quite sure I’m not alone in this. My dream home has had many changing features, but a few things have remained pretty constant. One of those dreams was to have a screen porch with a day bed. A “sleeping porch”,…
Last year after we moved into this new house, I was grabbing supplies from Home Depot when I noticed a nice cast aluminum table & chairs set for $299. Considering the $699 original price, I sat my butt down in the chair next to the table and tried to grab any employee to help me…
Last Saturday was just above 60 degrees. Hooray! Tomorrow it will be again! A couple mornings later there was snow on the ground again, and there’s tell of a Nor’Easter heading our way this coming week, but we’ll ignore that for the moment. Spring is coming! The robin (which never left all winter and has…
I have an old pair of adult mittens. They weren’t mine to begin with, I think they belonged to my mom. They’re dark blue suede with fake lambswool on the edges and the cuffs and seams. My guess they’re from the 70’s or early 80’s. Somehow I ended up with these, and while I recall…
That’s right, 33 contractor bags of garbage have gone out to the curb during our moving so far. More to come. 4 rooms nearly complete, and that’s including the attic and basement, the two worst areas of the house for cluttery crap. Way to go, us! Of course, this begs the question why the heck…
When you’re decluttering a massive pile of stuff, you can come across things given to you by people no longer with you. Things bequeathed, given, or just things that can evoke a memory.
This morning I spent some time watching the Today show to see coverage of the ongoing disaster in Japan. My heart goes out to those people in the affected areas. On the TV they were talking to an American teacher there who had escaped the complete devastation of the village she was staying in, along with many others, because the town had early warning Tsunami sirens…
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