posted by K | filed under Small Town Life, Paint | 5 Comments

Ah, how I love three-day weekends. You can get so much more accomplished on your house, enough to rescue your blog from stagnation. Enough to make you feel less like a loser in comparison with your more hardworking blog associates.
On Saturday we had another work day with our crew of handy neighbors (who have […]

posted by K | filed under Outdoors, Hot and Cold | 5 Comments

Sadly, the time of open windows is over. I gave in and turned on the central air.

Some of you Northern folks will probably think it’s ridiculously early to turn on the A/C, but here we were one of the later hold-outs. This had been a lovely cool spring, but then one day in early […]

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It’s funny how moving a piece of furniture into a different room makes the cats think it’s a totally new object, worthy of long periods of sniffing.
When I brought the footstool into the dining room to take its picture, Alistair came around immediately.

Later, Henry was seen lounging on it, his considerable backside hanging […]

posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Moving | Leave a Comment

This weekend we helped my younger sister move to Georgia. She was surprisingly cheerful throughout the process, unlike me; I have at least one nuclear meltdown each time I move. I hope I never move again until I’m 95, and then I’ll just bring a few picture frames and a plant to set on […]

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Last night I went with neighbor D to an organic gardening class that taught you how to compost. I think composting is a great idea, but I am also a very lazy person. So I bought a 50-pound bag of “finished” compost from the dude and am planning to use it around my stagnating […]

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Thanks for the support, guys. We talked to our lawyer friend last night, and he gave us the name of a friend who works with this kind of case. We hope everything will turn out all right.
Now I’m going to do some deep breathing and turn my mind from this. In the immortal words […]

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