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  • I did not sleep at all last night. First...I realized that I had a small error on our tax filing. I had all these paranoid visions of the IRS coming to get their $15. Then, at about 2:30AM I realized that David's car …

  • It's all good. Mom will be here tomorrow. (For the funeral. Well, that part isn't good. Sorry.) Get this...my great aunt left her house to my Nanny and to her daughter. My mom offered to buy out the daughter (she…

  • What one or two lines of a song would you call the best lyrics ever written?

    "And as we wind on down the roadour shadows taller than our souls..." Stairway to Heaven -- Led Zepplin I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!

  • Gracie is home, minus all kitten-making parts. Clyde (hereby affectionately known as The Big Baby) cried...howled!...was depressed and despondant!...wailed!...all...night...long. He was so happy to see her it was almos…

  • Full Moon! I couldn't stand it. We were up into the 70's today! Sunny and 70 degrees! The soil was no where near dry enough to work, but I busted my hind end to get those rows worked before the rain. When I checked …

  • Is it only Monday? David is working out of BR. It makes for odd hours. If I go to bed at a decent hour, I wake up when his alarm goes off. (2:15AM.) Lately I have just been staying up. I keep the laundry moving, …

  • Photoblog... Three Dog Night ClydeHis eyes are looking much better today. Yesterday he wouldn't open them much at all. Look at him poor little tail. Old Man Cat on the Pile of LaundryJosh, aged 18. I …

  • I was able to plant my flowers before the rain. The soil in the flower bed is much more forgiving of all the moisture (I have only been adding organic material there for 20 years or so ) I planted some sweet peas and s…

  • Rainy Day I guess I needed a rainy day. My muscles are achey and tired. I busted tail yesterday, trying to get stuff tilled before the weather blew in. I got the two rows for the peas pretty much done. I got tw…

  • Have I mentioned how much I love my tiller? Have I mentioned how much I love that man of mine who bought me this thing for Christmas? ok...first off. I am wiped out. I am so tired I can barely move. I took a hot, …

  • I had a really hard time getting to sleep last night. It felt like I had just gotten to sleep...then suddenly the sun is up and the dogs want out. Out! Out now! Yipee! Happy dogs! Outoutout! Not five minutes late…

  • Itty, Bitty Bits of Randomness

    David is out there in the cold, trying to figure out a way to effectively divert grey water from my washing machine into the garden. Recent "improvements" to the drainage system have made big, slushy, smelly puddles…

  • And now, something more productive... Lori asked me if I had been able to use my tiller any. I am glad she asked because after watching the weather man, I really wrote off any serious garden activity. You can't till w…

  • I figured out some recent events that were burrs in my britches, causing all the angst and emotional brohahah. David saw them too. I mouthed off in some angry nonsense. It wasn't particularly productive and we are b…

  • I really don't know how you folks anywhere north of Baton Rouge do it. I mean, not freeze to death in the winter. We got a bit of this recent cold weather. It stayed in the 30's and 40's. I think the coldest we got w…

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