Lamb and Frog

Ah summer. This year the teakettle has been in use (primarily for preparing hummingbird food) so it remains (to my knowledge) a spider free zone. I do, however, have spiders on my ceiling. In every room of the house. I mentioned this to some friends and one responded “Maybe it’s time to move.”
“Nah,” says I, [...]

That pretty much describes the last three months. My Grandmother’s death in April was preceded and has been followed by what seems to be non-stop chaos. I’m finally ready to write about some of it; I’m going to try to do that this month. For now, however, you will have to make do with an [...]

random: seeming to be without purpose or direct relationship to a stimulus. non sequential. (from the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition)
Shannon the Textile Goddess is going through a rough patch similar to the one I went through last summer (documented here and here). Life and technology would seem to be running amok. This morning she asked [...]

Apparently when you live in a high-humidity area or have evaporative cooling. In my case, it’s normally the latter, but lately it’s been both. In case you thought that my technology woes had come to an end, rest assured, that’s not the case. The refrigerator stopped working on Friday, July 3rd. You know…Friday afternoon right before [...]

I know, I know…where the hell have I been? Well let me tell you…it’s been a rough six weeks or so and I’m not so sure it’s getting any better. When the crazy ball first started rolling even people like Stephanie noticed. The fact that “Mercury is in retrograde” was duly noted as the cause [...]