Briefly, before we begin. Remember day before yesterday’s gigantor bee?   Well, now his/her kin are avenging his/her capture and death. A smaller but just as loud version helicoptering in our bedroom window this morning.  Let it be known, gigantor bee clan:  We will not tolerate your presence.  We will take you out with whatever [...]

Don’t you ever wish that you could employ the use of hindsight to ease your worries? This weekend was an excellent example. PopPop (Knobby’s Dad) was invited to a fancy little shindig and invited us to come along as his plus-ones.  What fun! But then . . . then, I had to think about what [...]

Growing up, my mother would always tell us to pray when we’d pull over to let an ambulance pass, or drive by an accident, or whenever we’d hear sirens. Pray for the people who needed those sirens, pray for the people who were going to help them. The volunteer fire department is very close to [...]

A good Sunday morning to everyone. I’ve been feeling not-too-hot for a while (about two weeks), and added to it on Friday.  I should have been writing this down as I went, because Knobby got tired of me putting it off and made me a doctor’s appointment, so now I’ll have to recap for her. [...]

I’ve spent today preparing for the exterminator, but now that he’s left, I’m about to throw myself back into painting the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom, you know, is Mimi’s old bedroom.  Everything we do with this house is an equal mix of sad and glad.  Sadness . . . because . . . obviously. [...]

You know how we love our turkeys around here. We have a flock of 22 that traverse the area and randomly visit us and our neighbors.  On a normal day we’ll see them twice, and when they gobble outside the window, I’ll drop everything and go out out to feed them. They’ve learned that the [...]

First:  Do you ever exasperate yourself with your own idiosyncrasy? (The key part of that term is the part that sounds like “crazy”.) I’m having an ongoing battle with myself . . . over what, you ask?  Hair elastics. Yes, that’s right.  I said HAIR ELASTICS.  Those tiny stretchy elastic-band-like things we wrap around our [...]

I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry. We have no Internet. Saying this makes me feel as though I’m flying a figurative white flag of S.O.S. or something. Yes, because nothing makes a Pixy feel more like she’s been shipwrecked on some unknown island and left to fend for herself using sticks and coconut shells . [...]

This weekend, while Knobby worked on our automated gate system, our neighbor happened to drive down her driveway, which parallels ours for a few feet and also shares the same point for her gate. (This has come in really handy for Knobby, because he can open her gate box and compare and contrast to see [...]

We’ve been taking it pretty easy since we returned from The Cornfields.  Pixy, in particular, has been even more of a homebody hermit than ever before.  All I wanted to do was wallow in my solitude.  Needed to recharge my home-loving self before I could get the house in order again. This week did see [...]