Category: Ex Trailer Trash

I have a four-day weekend coming up, after being approved for vacation days. Wa-HOO! These days when I have time off, G and I go on photo shoots. It’s both fun and a fairly inexpensive hobby. Yes, the cameras and paraphernalia are a bit pricey, until you compare them to paying to attend a single…

After a couple of setbacks in a row, we finally made it to Tucson to pick G’s camera up from the repair shop. We paid a whoooole lotta money for them to do a thorough cleaning of his D3400, and dropped off my D3200 for the same. This part of the world is insane for…

Thanks to shelling out four figures on house repairs in the near future (still waiting to get a firm date), the autumn trek back to the midwest this fall has been moved back to some nebulous point in the future. The date could advance when we make our first million dollars; otherwise I’m gonna assume…

Following the great dark-out last week, we spent several days sweltering. Our AC was wheezing and gasping, and we figured it was on its way to that great HVAC retirement in the sky. It was cooling a little – as in, got us down to 87 degrees instead of 110. Still a long ways from…

We don’t have fancy tableware in this house. I have a set of gold-trimmed china which came from my mom. Which means 1) it’s from the 1990s or earlier because she died in 2002; and 2) it’s so cheap I’m not convinced there’s any porcelain in it, the name on the box notwithstanding. I’m not…