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…. and it is FABULOUS. I bought some impatiens last weekend, because it is the only thing I ever plant – in honor of my mother. Well, that and it’s the only plant I can reliably identify. I actually went to buy some a month or so ago, but Wal*Mart didn’t have any. I wasn’t [...]

Brad planted a holly plant in our back yard years and years ago. It was nice, but pointy and  hurty when you touched it. Some years after that they dug up the pipe from our house to the city sewer line, and the holly was right in the path. We plopped it back down, but [...]

Warning: Picture-heavy post ahead. Today was weird. The forecast said it was going to be hot, but that was difficult to believe as the day started out cold and extremely foggy. As I was going upstairs to take a shower I was surprised to see a large bird in the tree. It was a duck! [...]

I’ve said this before – I’m big on having ideas, and terrible at follow-through. Here’s another harebrained idea I’m testing out, though. I’ve talked about commercial cleaning before, and a few years ago I was all crazed for FlyLady.com (the ideas, not actually following the schedule), and of course watching Hoarders every so often has [...]

So, here’s an update on Sick Boy. He’s been sleeping in his moist, open-window environment, and the humidity is condensing on the wall in front of the air conditioning vent that runs to the upstairs. That can’t be good, right? He’s laughing because we have this house, which is a controlled environment that is different [...]

Until very recently, there was a short quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that greeted us as we went up to bed: Finish each day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well. It battled bravely, but ended up like all quotes do, with letters strewn bloody on the carpet. But [...]