In which I’m tired of yard dogs. I live in a very small town full of very large yards. One should, I believe, do pretty much whatever one wants in their own yard. Rip out the turf and put in vegetables or wild flowers. Park a fucking car on blocks. Build a little free library. […]
In which I, with great originality, talk about the weather. The weather has been shit! Utter shit! Like, Midwestern-style, cold-as-fuck, stupid shit! Snow, freezing rain, and temps well below freezing! Fuck this shit! When it’s in the teens, the furnace runs constantly. There are drafts in the living room (it has two plate glass windows). […]
In which there’s complaining. So I’m riding home from work the other day. It’s past four. It’s dusk. It’s foggy. So, it’s still light out, but only barely, and my colored bike lights are lovely. There’s a light rain. It’s in the 40’s, so, it’s chilly but not truly cold, and I’m properly attired. It […]
In which it’s been grey, overcast, and foggy for a few days but it FEELS like it’s been MONTHS. We had T-day alone, just the two of us. Which is how we normally do it, because we spent so much time so far away from family. This year most of the family had mild medical […]
In which I have letters after my name now. Got the results email, for the cheese professional test I took in July, and am pleased and surprised to learn that I passed! I thought for sure I’d failed. I mean, I got all the questions about Ossau Iraty wrong because I’d never eaten it and […]
In which nobody will find this interesting, but I’ma write it anyway because I feel like it! One thing I thought, at first, was really cool about the whole MIU campus experience was the vegetarian (!!!) dining hall. Vegetarian! All of it! I’d gone vegetarian within, I think, half a year of moving out on […]
In which I had a massage appointment today! About a year ago, a couple of women set up their massage practices in a building a few doors down from where I work and promptly started coming in for lunch enough that I met them, and eventually I booked an appointment with one of them and […]
In which it must suck to be a first responder. It’s the 4th here in M-F, which means at least ten amateur large fireworks displays within a half mile of our house. It’s insane. I can sit on the patio and see four without even turning my head, it’s loud as hell, and even in […]
In which I can’t fucking cook AT ALL anymore?! Yesterday, I hurt my back walking across my kitchen. Just walking. (After doing several other things, chores, window cleaning, and dropping something and startling so hard I somehow actually caught it: that was probably when the twinge really began. But we’ll say I was walking. Because […]
In which I realized yesterday that I’ll be 60 in five years. On Wednesday mornings, I attend a 2-hour class, via Zoom, for ACS CCP exam prep. Right now we’re covering milk, specifically acidulants used in cheesemaking, and even more specifically the difference between acids like lemon juice and acidity caused by the addition of […]
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