I love shovels. I love getting dirty. Someone’s gonna think I’m digging a grave over here.
Archive for November, 2009
I Love Digging Holes
Posted in garden, tagged holes, tools on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stay for Soup?
Posted in Food, tagged bench, Friends, soup on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gosh, how lucky we are. Really. We’ve had people all around us for the past four days, and though I’ve had to slip away for bike rides and naps, it’s been very nice. Good thing I made a wicked pot of turkey-and-rice soup on Friday. You know, there’s nothing like a big pot of soup [...]
I’m Starting a Christmas-Light Revolution. Right Now.
Posted in The Mundane, tagged American-made products, Christmas lights, landfill, planned obsolescence, recycle, revolution on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I tell you, I am ticked off. At Christmas-light manufacturers. I just dragged all those Christmas lights out of the attic and attacked the job of making this place look festive. But those damned things are all shot. Plug them in, they don’t work. So, I headed down to the hardware store and bought a [...]
Good-bye to that Toothy Grin
Posted in Friends, Uncategorized, tagged death, Friends, Maria on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today is Thanksgiving, and Maria died tonight.
She took her last breath about 10 minutes after we left her, and we are so very very sad. I told you, Reader, that she was unresponsive, and on Monday, after two weeks like that in Neurological Intensive Care, her family removed her from her respirator and all the [...]
Pants-Down Fiction
Posted in writing, tagged Blog, novel on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Shit. Okay, Reader, you may have caught me with my pants down. Seriously, that’s what it feels like. You may have chanced upon the beginning of Chapter Six. I started it yesterday morning, but I FORGOT to label it “private,” and five paragraphs became “public” for a day. Anyway, I hope you liked it! Frankly, [...]
Why It’s Important to Share Leftovers with Friends while You Can
Posted in Friends, tagged Arterial Venus Malformation, AVM, Friends, stroke on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Our friend, Maria, is unresponsive.
Maria had an MRI a couple of weeks ago, and it showed a congenital weakness in the vessels in her brain…a hemorrhage from that weakness caused her massive stroke in July. Because this small area of weakness remains, she underwent a procedure on Monday to correct it and to try forgoing [...]
