Some of you heard the ugly details of the last THREE times my hubby was away for the weekend at a WWII reenactment. Each one of the last three times, I've had from one to three children become sick.  After the third puke-fest, my sense of humor about it was all gone, and Eric accused me of poisoning his children while he was gone ( Read more... )

Remember those neighbors that got all bent because I had the audacity to tell them their kids couldn't use my mini-farm as a playground/petting zoo ( Read more... )

SOooooo.....there was a nice trailer recently parked at the vacant McMansion right across the street, from us, which has been for sale for months.  Trailer showed up on Saturday before I left for a garage sale, Sunday morning a neighbor (the local snoop) comes over to ask me if I'd seen who had delivered it, and tells me it is stolen.  Said there ( Read more... )

Had a fight with my neighbor....
I live in the country, on e2-1/2 acres, Our neighbors' homes are mostly manicured lawns, while ours is a hobby farm, definitely a fixer-upper that we bought late last year.

I was gone most of yesterday, and when I came home, my friend who was working on restoring his truck (it is in ( Read more... )

My apologies for anyone who has already seen this one, but it absolutely moved me to tears (yeah, yeah, I know....)

I love you guys, too.

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How in the world does a tent reserach Laurel show up without a period tent?

Deep sigh. Looks like either I borrow back my little yurt for a makeover, or I finish the Turkish Monstrosity :)

LOVE the picture--maybe I shoulda been a Tudor  

Loved this website! May have to get the book....

I am so tired of seeing parents who think they should just raise their kid naturally,  and who refuse to do the hard stuff--like disciplining, being The Bad Guy, or setting boundaries.

Seeing kids out in public makes me just cringe, and want to smack their clueless parents, who can't seem to figure out why Junior is acting like a little hellion, ( Read more... )

Sleeps been restless lately,  and last night I dreamt I was back at an SCA event.  I was visiting with people and telling them what I'd been doing, and Fearga  ran up to me, said she was glad I was back, and said since I hadn't been doing the work I should've been doing for all the time gone,  she were handing me HALF the To Do List for the Summits ( Read more... )