Perfecting the Art of Insanity, One Day at a Time
FYI, if there’s a Harbor Freight store anywhere in your vicinity, take a minute and go inside. They have flashlights for 99ยข right now, and they’re ideal emergency lights. They’re pre-loaded with batteries (which last a long time, by the way). They have a folding hook on the back, so they can be hung from…
After my last ginormous word-plosion, I promise to keep this one short. Par-tay Thanks to everyone’s work schedule, our family Christmas party was yesterday at my younger daughter’s house. It was a potluck between four families – our older boys are out of state. So both my daughters and their families, us, and my younger…
Warning. Word vomit ahead. Hairy Loomed I’ve mentioned my heirloom ring, passed down from my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law (and father-in-law) both passed before I met my husband, and my sister-in-law didn’t know any history of the jewelry she shared with me, only that it had belonged to her mother. A couple of photos, for reference:…
Call Me Wednesday Addams G and I have been together seventeen years this month. Nearly as I can remember, he’s never seen me cry. He might – maybe – have seen me get slightly misty-eyed once or twice. I can’t even swear to that. A week ago, though, I freely admit to bawling like a…
The B&W header image for this post is one of my photos from this summer, heavily edited. The abandoned church sits in Eloy, a nearby ghost town not quite dead enough for ghosts yet, though some of its buildings would argue the point. The unedited version included a whole lot more of the chain-link fencing…