Perfecting the Art of Insanity, One Day at a Time
#1 The bad: the supply line to the water heater sprung a leak today. I definitely didn’t build a plumber into this month’s already-stretched budget. In the greater scheme of things, it could be far worse. We turned the water off to the house until we could get it fixed. The good: There’s a small…
The other shoe’s done hit the floor with a resounding THUMP. We made a 140-mile dash in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago, to pick up our older daughter and youngest grandson. Her husband pulled a gun on them. It was the last straw for my daughter (understandably). She and the…
Christmas decor at our house is generally limited to 1) our tabletop Christmas tree and 2) a solitary string of battery-powered lights over the front porch and carport. A week before Christmas last year, half the lights in our pre-lit tree bit the dust. A couple of days later, so did the outdoor lights. Before…