• Home Improvement - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Belling the Fish

    Oh boy! We’re drilling holes in the house! Things are done slowly, and sometimes not in logical order around here, but eventually they do get done. Although they might get done in strange ways — tonight, for instance, we tried belling the fish, and now our ceiling jingles, but we have successfully achieved a goal we’ve been working towards for several months now… very soon, there will not be electronic spaghetti dangling all over the back of the wet bar, and as of about 90 minutes ago, there is no dusty speakerwire trailing along the floor and threatening to trip…

  • Home Improvement

    It Snew

    It rained much of yesterday, and then it snowed last night. Now everything is grey and sloppy — and we’re getting ready to go out, so I have to think about “what not to wear” under these conditions. I think heels and a silk blouse are out of the question, don’t you? Yep, fall back on my fashion staple — Timberland hiking boots, jeans, several layers on top including bad-weather shell. My only concession to “decorative” dressing is a blue pashmina shawl. I like it, it’s soft and warm. I think I need some more of them, maybe I’ll find…

  • Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them

    Now, That’s What I’m Talking About

    Oh, boy. We’re going to Salt Lake for a visit in late March and again in May. I have to get the space booked for the first trip booked next week. I’ve been putting it off. Oh, boy. I’d better take along all my medication — I always get a horrible sinus infection whenever I return, for example. And I have to take my special anti-headexplody medicine when I go there, too. The occasion will be a lovely family celebration (no irony) at the home of a family member and his partner (again with the no irony). The family member…