No, this isn't a sports page/business page mash-up! I was sitting at the computer earlier this morning and looked out into the back yard and saw a Baltimore Oriole! Goodness knows, I colored dozens of pictures of them when I was in school, but I'd never actually seen one before. So pretty..such an intense orange color against the black. I tried ( Read more... )

We're supposed to get rain and thunderstorms tonight. They've been talking about it all day and the Weather Channel is busy showing the areas that have already been hit by the storms. Not the most calm spring we've ever had.

So, of course, tonight is the night that we're getting an entirely new cash-register system at work. As in 'all the old ( Read more... )

I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I used to do aerobics and never once tripped over my own two feet...or anyone else's feet, for that matter. So why in the world am I having so much trouble learning to use my inhaler? I went to the Doctor on Tuesday because my ear was still aching slightly and she heard my wheezing and prescribed an ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, mcgarrygirl78!!! I hope you have a wonderful birthday! Thanks for being such a great friend!

Home at last! Today and yesterday were pretty much all about the driving, and the stopping to eat and feed the car and the driving. I had a wonderful time but I'm glad to be home!

( Things we learned on vacation. )

The latest edition of "March Madness" is upon us. I was scanning the brackets the other day and it seemed to me that the Selection Committee must have had Scrabble on it's mind when the teams were picked.

Imagine, if you will, sitting down to play and finding these tiles in your letter tray.

MSU UCLA VCU UNCA UTSA LIU ( Read more... )

Whenever I answer the 'phone at work, I say "Good evening, {our city}[store-name]" So tonight, when I answered like that, the reply was " Where are you?" So I told him the address. So then he wanted to know what state I was in. And when I told him what state it was, I got "No...I'm trying to call..*mumble, mumble*" Followed by three minutes of ( Read more... )

Just came in from shoveling the driveway. My wonderful next-door-neighbor, R., came over and did most of the work with his snowblower. The Mr. has resolved to buy one next fall, it's just getting too hard to keep up with the shoveling. And the last few snowfalls, the snow has been the heavy, wet kind, which is much heavier than our usual 'lake ( Read more... )

( ..GPS is recalibrating.. )

Spring is coming in like a lion...very windy and the massive piles of snow are rapidly disappearing. On the other hand, it's supposed to snow on Sunday, so there you are. Winter in Michigan is never really over until sometime in May. But it's been nice to be warm again, after all the cold weather we had. There are snowdrops trying push their way ( Read more... )