It's not yet noon and I have accomplished everything I've set out to do today except to go to the art supply store.
I had to take Berlin in this morning at 8 for his medicated bath and groom. He'a allergic to fleas and the Frontline flea control. So during the summer I have to take him in once a month for his bath and pamper. And he IS pampered ( Read more... )

Not even 2 weeks into the hurricane season and we have a tropical storm in the gulf. Our weekend will be shot-thru with rain ( Read more... )

...stands for G'Damn Dentist Day. And my mouth is still so numb I just dribbled (sweet) iced tea from the corners. Lovely. I'm back to being the village idiot again ( Read more... )

Last week was Hell Week. A trip to Pennsylvania, to Amish country, because Chris' grandmother passed away. It was so sad--I was quite fond of her. Then, a break-neck trip to make it home for my nephew's 1st b'day party Saturday, and then to get the call mid-way thru the party that my grandmother--only grandmother I have left--had fallen that ( Read more... )

Do Da Day was Saturday at the local parks. There was a parade at 11:01 a.m. (which we missed) and then the unofficial parade of pups and owners within the parks. I find it amazing that so many different dogs can get along at this event; it seems like the big dogs overlook the small dogs, the frou-frou dogs, the ones way up on the spunk-ometer. ( Read more... )

It's 420. Be gladsome. Share. And grin like crazy.
2050 words written today, God knows I deserve it.

In the Joon catalog for Spring 2005 (fountain pens):

From the COLLECTOR'S CORNER:

Krone introduces the Marilyn Monroe pen. A stunning gold filigree is wrapped around an attractive pearlized base. The cap is also fitted with a miniature peephole through which an image of Marilyn can be seen. The crown is embedded with a piece of actual lipstick ( Read more... )

Last weekend was spent at Birmingham-Southern College at the Writing Today (http://www.writingtoday.org/) Writers' Conference where I met many interesting folk, and some not so interesting (like the fobs whose cell phones kept going off during sessions). Wasn't nearly as sterile and stuffy ( Read more... )

Funny how these things sometimes are frighteningly true...

snargled from Mehitobel


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Yesterday I received my contributor copies of the German antho Amazonen ( http://www.ubooksshop.de/pd1107435401.htm?categoryId=7) and the Italian antho Amazzoni http://www. ( Read more... )