I never did write about our lawyer, Herman (the one-eyed German, as we call him, or Munster in a pinch). The guy's office is in Elizabeth in an old deco building downtown where you'd expect to see Fred MacMurray. The office is tacky as hell, with all kinds of geisha screens, samurai swords, and LEATHER, lots of leather. The waiting room is just ( Read more... )

Devlin recorded his first official crawl Saturday, July 9th, and he has not looked back. Oh the jams he gets himself into. . . Today he chased my mother to the front door and discovered a beetle that crawled in under the door. My mom got to the beetle first and ate it ( Read more... )

Could life ever be sane again, indeed. . .

Get ready NYC. It's just a question of when.

I'm going to miss Bayonne. . . . I went to the bank today and noticed an old guy crabbing about something. Get this, he was wearing a belt buckle that said "Bullshit." I love that guy. I can't imagine that the locals in Fanwood, etc. are that colorful, though I have heard over and over that lots of Bayonners have moved to Cranford over the years. ( Read more... )

The ant guy, Jack, came by and sprayed those giant ants, plus those awful, awful millipedes. I asked about rats in Bayonne, and he said that they live near the bay and that there used to be tons in the park but that the opossums that they brought in cleaned them up. Now the park is overrun with opossums. Go figure. He said that the rats by the ( Read more... )

I haven't done as much birding as I would have liked this spring due to a combination of baby, crappy weather, Larry taking courses, and allergies. Grr! The birds, instead, have decided to come to me a bit. I was looking in the mirror the other day brushing my hair when a bird flittered about my screen window. I looked out to see a tiny little ( Read more... )

Devlin has finally learned to completely flip from his belly to his back, so now I have to actually watch him, which really cuts into my "me" time. Seriously, I really, really have to watch him because he will roll from one end of the room to the other in a minute or two. I often find him beneath the coffee table. His top two teeth just broke the ( Read more... )

Well, I think I am over my yearly allergy attack and plan on taking a stroll with Devlin. Hopefully, my head won't explode on setting foot outside. Damn pollen. This weekend is the World Series of Birding in Cape May. One year, I plan on getting a team together, but I don't know too many birders, except for my friend, Ms.E, who is not a morning ( Read more... )

Ugh, my right eye is dripping, yes, dripping. I am out of my mind right now. I just took my second dose of Tylenol Sinus--here's hoping. I woke up last night at 3:30 with a headache and the idea that I should start the coffee and get in some reading before Devlin wakes up, but it was 3:30. I made the mistake of trimming back the damn wisteria that ( Read more... )

Win again! I'm enjoying this while it lasts.