I’m all…  bleh today.
The air conditioner isn’t cooling the whole house so I had to block off the kitchen doorway – which improved things a lot but now the kitchen and bathroom are stifling and I can’t work up the energy to get in the tub.  Isn’t that awful?  Added to it I don’t want [...]

So last year (there I go, doing it again.  I start so many blog posts with “so…”. It’s like I was in the middle of a conversation with y’all, got distracted and came right back to it like I never stopped. Heh)
Anyhow.  Last year, Taylor saw some guy giving away a shed on Craigslist or [...]

Leonidas is my dog.  You’ve all seen pics of my (rather large) puppy, right?  
Well, yesterday, I got my new Hello Kitty! vibrator from Babeland.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
I turned it on and Leonidas came prancing over to see what it was.  So I touched his nose with it.  And he ran like hell.  He’s now terrified of [...]

So I stumble out of bed after having struggled to fall sleep without Ambien (and having fallen asleep just as my alarm to get the Teen up for school started to blare in my ear, whereupon I woke him up and crawled back in bed and finally – finally! – fell asleep) and I trudge to [...]

When I was longing for Fall?  We’re way past that.
Remember when I was enthralled with Winter?  When the snow made me smile?  Yeah.  We’re past that, too.
Wisconsin is stupid and the snow has all but stopped and we’ve had nothing but cold.  Biting, stabbing, painful cold and dark.
Until today.
Today we got a taste of Spring.
It [...]

“ The  fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
 ~J.B. Priestley

I love snow.
I love sweaters and long johns and coffee [...]

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fall is coming.  Can you smell it?  I almost can. It sneaks in [...]

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
Now we all know I don’t believe in the traditional version of god but…I have to admit I find my garden – and gardening in [...]

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life; and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own [...]

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” ~Anais Nin
I touched on this in my 360° blog but thought it deserved a bit more attention…
There is [...]

Well…It’s that time of year again.Cold outside, everything frozen, people rushing from their cars to wherever they need to go…The longest day of the year over and the promise of more light just ahead of us…Christmas and my birthday right around the corner…A new year to begin soon…
And life is really good.Taylor’s workin’ steady at [...]

” A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”~Mignon McLaughlin
Still a little dumbfounded by the idea that I’m going to be getting married again.Thirty six years old, a twelve year old son, two failed marriages behind me… and I’m going to try it again.
Why, you ask?Because I’ve finally found [...]

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe….” ~H.L. MenckenIf I haven’t said it enough lately…I have some really, really great friends.I”ve been wary, for a long time, of creating actual friendships.I lost all mine in my [...]