I found a new (to me) blog yesterday, Homemade Grits. Lesley and her husband Sam are expecting a baby girl, Matilda. Soon! I stumbled upon her blog while doing a search for something I’d seen on CBS Sunday Morning. She has a whole entry about the show and I was drawn right in. I [...]
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Posted in Blogs, Domestic stuff, Humor, People I admire
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Tagged adsense, bloggers, books, bookshelf, clean sweep, color, decorating, hoarding, Home Improvements, ideas, outdated, paint, painting, PMS, pregnancy blog, purging, schemes
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Wednesday night found us listening to the snaps and booms of firecrackers in our neighborhood. Around 11:00pm, we heard a succession of loud booms. We assumed someone had put some big firecrackers in a trash can, for these explosions had that kind of muffled sound. Seconds later, however, our power flickered and went off. It [...]
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Posted in Domestic stuff, Gardening, Local folks, Nature, Pets, Photography
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Tagged AEP, american, asplundh, chainsaw, cherry picker, chokecherry, electric, Gardening, Home Improvements, power, power company, stump grinding, sycamore, transformer, tree removal
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Yesterday marked an important moment in our household, a yearly rite. There’s no set date for this annual occurrence, no set “second Saturday in November” kind of thing. Planets don’t have to align, meteors don’t have to fall blazing from the sky. How, then is it determined? I’ll tell you: it depends on one person. [...]
