I’ve had a silent quest for a few months: The Perfect School Bag. You may recall the elbow sweat post? It was all due to the bag situation. On any given day I might carry two or three bags – my purse (far left, above), and either my stupid tote bag (not shown) or the [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Knock Knock
July 30, 2009
Who’s there? Stupid cat. Stupid cat who? Stupid cat who can’t open the new cat door. Seriously, those senile cats are driving me nuts. Here I slaved over making that travesty of a cat door look less like a beer-induced bad idea, but they couldn’t figure out how to use it. Cricket kept trying to [...]
This Could be Trouble
July 29, 2009
If you’re in Seward you should watch out, because there is one more of whatever came out of this around somewhere. If you happen to know what came out of this, AND IT IS LESS TERRIFYING THAN THIS, please let us know. Otherwise just keep it to yourself.
Philosophical Time with Lauren
July 28, 2009
I’ve had this conversation with some of you many times, but it is interesting enough to me that I want to comb your brains (ew.) Would you consider yourself an extrovert or an introvert? I am an introvert at heart, but at school I have to be outgoing. All that smiling, talking and being ‘on’ [...]
Things that go bump, meow and flap in the night.
July 27, 2009
It never fails that when we have company in the downstairs bedroom (right by the stairs), there is a need to sneak up & down our creaky steps during the night. On Saturday night I woke up at four in the morning convinced that Pfennig was outside and dying. No amount of rationalization could fix [...]
More Sommerers than you can shake a stick at.
July 26, 2009
Did you know that there are Sommerers in northern Nebraska? You can try spraying for Sommerers, but we’re like carpenter ants – tough to kill. Just kidding. Lloyd’s great-great-grandpa had a son that stayed in Missouri (where Lloyd’s family came from) and a son that came north of here to the Fremont, Nebraska area in [...]



July 31, 2009
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