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The Neighborly Dog

12DecemberSuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

A couple of the neighbors have dogs which we say hi to whenever they’re out.Â Occassionally as I watch their enthusiasitc exploration of the neighborhood I remember fondly all the long walks under the trees, games in the yard, and doggy loveÂ which I enjoyed with our Brittany, many years ago.Â Once in a while I

The Green vs. the White

10DecemberSuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery

As a kid I hated the term ‘green Christmas’.Â Growing up in Utah, our Christmas was never green (heck, our summers worked pretty hard to pull offÂ green!), insteadÂ Christmas without freshÂ snowÂ would be a brown, mucky mush of left-over October snow and biting winds.Â The years when it snowed on Christmas Eve, or thereabouts, were my favorite

Music to Fly By

20NovemberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Rumblings

While of course I’m grateful for many things this Thanksgiving,Â what comes to mind when listening to friends’ travel plans?Â That I’m staying home. My flying horror stories aren’t that horrendous.Â Rude, inconsiderate attendants who treatÂ people asÂ something lessÂ than sub-citizen,Â officious security officers denying myÂ preschooler the water their documents statedÂ she was allowed, time spent standing in lines for

The Laundry Thing

16NovemberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

What is it about laundry?Â Â No single item of clothing is tooÂ heavy for an old lady to carry, so it can’t very well be considered hard labor.Â We buy gleaming machines that take our clothes for a ride and spit them out warm and fuzzy.Â The soaps and scrubbies come in such a variety that every

Money’s Memory

10NovemberSuzanneFolklore and Myth, Home in the Rookery

We attended a stamp and coin show at the fairgrounds today and I was thrilled to pick up some nice specimens of ancient Chinese cash, mostly from the Southern Sung.Â Of course I wanted to bring it all home, but theÂ coins I picked were pretty cool, though not of any high monetary value. One of

Random Facts of Absolutely No Consequence

5NovemberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Today while shelling boiled eggs my karmaÂ crossed that of a particularly troubled shell–the tiny jagged edge jabbed into my skin and drew blood.Â Of course, perhaps I’ve got it all wrong and thisÂ signifies my initiation into theÂ brotherhood of chickens. The ferrets have dug their way under our attic door, removing the troublesome carpet and pad

Professional Test-Takers

29OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

I had scheduled two mid-terms and a final for today, and since I knew most of it was essays I allowed a lot of time.Â When I got down there (I drive to a university that proctors my exams) I took the first test with 30 min. to spare.Â The next test also finished at

Rain!!

24OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery

Beautiful, lovely, bewitching, charming, winsome rain!Â It’s presence has already cancelled twoÂ of my plans for the day, but who cares?Â Â I can just feel the dry, thirsty earth soaking it up, the trees and flowers opening their leavesÂ and taking a deep drink.Â Â Because we’re rated as being in an extreme drought, we haven’t even been allowed to

Posing as a Writer

17OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Writing

Last night was my first ‘writer’ appearance.Â It was a career fair for the youth group at our church, so not the most critical of audiences.Â Still, I had to tackle a small case of nerves and come out of the shadows were I usually hide my writing aspirations.Â I can see it takes a

Tomatoes to the Rescue

13OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, The Human Condition

I wish I had a picture to post with this, but we didn’t quite catch the moment… Anyway, today at the Renaissance Festival there was a place of ‘vegetable justice’, in which a guy hung his head and hands out of holes in a board wall, as if he was in the stocks.Â Then for

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