A Cream Puff Kind of Night

It all started when our son stuffed four cases of A&W root beer into the basement freezer.  The cans burst before they froze, so we had a delightfully root beer scented freezer and a waterfall of brown ice flowing off the shelves and pooling in the bottom drawer. When I found it I may have said

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Defying the Groundhog

I’ve decided that winter can be a state of the mind, and I’m not participating in it.  Even after the Florida trip–or maybe, because the FL trip was so chilly–I’ve been finished with winter for several weeks now.  And the weather really hasn’t been bad.  Nothing a little perspective can’t claim is spring capriciousness at work.

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Hurray For Wasted Days

Did you ever have a day that was so weighed down by its own ‘To Do’ list it stayed in bed and scrapped the whole thing?  Today was like that.  Or, at least, the first half.  A day which really had no business doing anything but nose-to-the-grindestone work, and at an efficiency level that would

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What’s in YOUR Burger?

Over the weekend I volunteered at my son’s school for a fundraiser and was put on a concession cash register.  The event was pretty busy and we had a steady flow of hamburgers, hot dogs, and combos thereof coming past, with the occasional candy bar or soda.  I tried to do the friendly chat with

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Looking for Wheels

We went car shopping today.  In a laxidasical, half-hearted way.  We really do need a second car–we’ve been getting along fine for all these years with just one, but recently we’ve had a few too many times when half the family needed to dance attendance to a particular event while the other half the family needed to simultaneously

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Indiscriminate Use of False Advertising

Our cats would like to lodge a formal protest of the gross misrepresentation and product falsification evident in this photo.  Where, pray tell, are the Unlimited Wild Birds promised?      

Merry Christmas! (From the Cats)

Since I’m not planning to post tomorrow, I bargained with the cats to give you a Merry Christmas blog.  They accepted their payment of fish, but I think regretted the deal when the hats went on.    Let’s hope they’re in a better mood tomorrow.  Have a great Christmas!

Testing the Smoke Alarms

Christmas is a good time for getting things done.  Plenty of multi-tasking opportunities, too.  Tonight, I decided to really be efficient and simultaneously cook dinner, get some cleaning done in the bedroom, and…test the smoke alarms. Okay, so maybe that last one wasn’t planned. The good news is, there was no fire and I salvaged

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Wrapping Up the Week

I haven’t done one of those ‘this week in words’ posts in a long while, but if I did, this weeks’ words would include a lot of fast action verbs, several dealing with parties and holidays, and a few unmentionable curse words. We’ve had workmen of one sort or another out here every day this week. 

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