Thursday, March 30th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Reflection | 7 Comments
Since I was out of town last week, and D’s been busy with the lawnmower project and we’ve had auctions and children’s birthday parties to attend, basically I have nothing to say about the house.
So I’m taking a page from the book of my middle school self. Back then, my family lived in the […]
Monday, March 27th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Small Town Life | 4 Comments
I’m back home after several days in Louisville, Kentucky, where I got three massive blisters on my feet, saw snow for the first time in years, met Mikey from American Choppers, and was falsely accused of paparazzi-ism by a member of an aging country music star’s entourage.
I’m so glad to be home I can’t […]
Monday, March 20th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Misfortune | 2 Comments
If you recall, my parents are just two of the many, many, many people on the Gulf Coast who lost their homes to Katrina. In a post early during the disaster, before we knew the fate of their little vacation house, I mentioned a riding lawnmower they’d just bought.
When we went down to see […]
Friday, March 17th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Misfortune | 2 Comments
All week I’ve been reminding myself about St. Patrick’s Day. It’s one of my favorite holidays, and I was afraid I’d forget to celebrate with the wearing o’ the green.
So apparently, I psyched myself up for it so much that I jumped the gun. I’m 1/32nd Irish (my great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Hurley was […]
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Hot and Cold | 5 Comments
The Great Weatherman in the Sky must be having a hearty point-and-laugh at me right about now. I didn’t know he was into blogs, but apparently he saw my post all about the wonderful heat and decided to send a cold snap my way. To up the ante of the joke, he made American […]
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Hot and Cold | 12 Comments
I’m going to make some people jealous with this post (namely, Halloweenlover). Apparently, in Alabama we have skipped right over spring and gone straight to summer. All winter I’ve dreamed of the mild spring days when the house would be lovely and comfortable and require no artificial temperature moderation of any kind. Well, we […]








