I just retracted a bid on eBay for a lovely taxidermy deer head. Frank says we cannot afford it. Shame, it would have looked nice above the couch.

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Received some peculiar e-mails today, one said ( Read more... )

Last night the lights went out during the storm, we needed rain but we also needed lights. The flashlight batteries were rusty but we had candles. We ate by candlelight and called Whimsy, her roommate said she was at a game but then we heard laughing in the background ( Read more... )

This morning I was threatened by a German man and it scared the living bejeezus out of me. He is a faceless man who lives in the computer but still I know what those Germans are like ( Read more... )

This morning Basil next door told me Injuns used to live around here. Where did they all go? It's so peculiar. But I think I would be afraid if I saw one - or at least I would have my reservations. Get it? Reservations ( Read more... )

Just read an interesting story in the Daily Herald. There is a bicycle theif at large who only steals stationary bikes because he is agoraphobic. We have an old dusty one in the basement that was Whimsy's but quite frankly he can have it.

Was stirred from my slumber by a strange noise, it was just a loose branch brushing against the window from the desert winds. I could not go back to sleep, I took a benadryl (Dr. Monaghan says that is okay) and looked at baby pictures of Whimsy ( Read more... )

Early this morning the heavens opened up and it rained, it seemed like a message from God. Frank said: No, it's just rain ( Read more... )

The sun's not up yet and I'm already picking at leftover glazed ham in the refrigerator, the pineapple is congealed but it still tastes lovely. I think it was one of my best and everyone loves it even Frank and he's so picky ( Read more... )

A lot of people say life thrives in spring, but I thrive in October and that's only a month away.

Squash and burning wood and candy corn, the start of school and yellow buses, children playing football. My heart is full of the season but for now I should tend to dinner the kids are coming.