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Best medicine for a long day
Only watch this if you need to decompress. Or smile. Or roll your eyes. Cap’n Jack is just good medicine. Mind you, I’m crawling on the living room floor with my Canon PowerShot, so we are not talking quality directing here.
Warning: baby talk involved
Monday, Monday…ants, indoor rock garden and pediatrician recipes
Today we have a potpourri of just schtuff.
OK, first things first…I have ants in my bathroom. Lots, and for the first time ever. This weekend I bought and placed ant traps, but I’d sure like to know if these little boogers are doing evil things to my wood. Anyone with ant expertise, please weigh in [...]
Apparently I’ve been granted an extension
that I didn’t ask for.
This season of grief in my life is just not ending. It started in 2004 and is about ready to do me in. I mean it.
Jim died this week, at age 64 chronologically, but forever an adolescent. Stuck developmentally, for the most part, and in an elfin body.
Jim was my brother [...]
The first “Death with Dignity” report — what does it tell us?
In the first 10 months of Washington’s Death with Dignity Act, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication for terminally ill patients, 63 patients filled the prescription for the lethal dose, but not all who later died had taken it, according to a report released today by the Washington state Department of Health.
Of the 47 patients [...]
Sister Day, just because
We’re at the sad end of company at our house, just over 12 hours left of Aunt Laurie time. We have crammed a whole lotta good into these past five days and it will be lifelong memory for my children, that Aunt Laurie came for no special reason other than she loves us.
A lot.
We tried [...]
Happy Scream
People! My sister-in-law is coming! Like here, to my house, this week!
A little background. I first met Laurie 12 years ago, even though she’d been married to my little brother Kenny for 15 years or so by that point.
But things happen in families and that can be especially true in step-families.
Long story short, as soon [...]
I’ve seen the “un” hand washers
and Sanidoor might be worth every penny.
You’ve seen them where you work, some people skipping the step between toilet and exit. You decide on the spot to never participate in a company potluck again.
Nothing will convince some people to wash their hands after pottying, but the new Sanidoor might help the rest of us not [...]
Dear “neighbor”
You walked by my house again this past week. Right in front of my house, where children skate and ride their bikes. Where elderly folks take a daily stroll and joggers whisper past in the pre-dawn dark…right there, you pulled out a big bottle of whiskey and took a deep drink. For all to see.
Like [...]
Lick your lips, this one is sweetly hot
First of all, my Fav Unc should not read this post until Sunday. Please. Thank you.
Some of you know I sometimes whine about how difficult it is to buy my favorite — only — uncle a meaningful gift.
Part of the problem is, actually, rocket science.
Since he has worked his entire adult life for NASA as [...]
Home Place ~ Valentine of the Year
“I think God gave us Jerry because he knew we’d need a man to spoil us.”Another gem from the lips of the littlest child floated past me once again in the bathroom last week. It is amazing how many conversations take place at our house in the main powder room before 7 a.m.
I suppose it’s [...]
