In the absence of Rance, who is either off being a fabbleous movie sleb or starting fall semester after moving out of his parents’ basement, his readers have been writing a round-robin mystery story. This has been going on for about a month now, with submissions going up about every other day – sometimes, every day. It’s very organized, and there’s a list of people, so you know when you’re “on deck.” Also, when you’re writing your submission, you get an advance copy of the previous one, which doesn’t get posted until you submit your own. It seems to be…
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Saturday we drove around more or less at random, first south, then north to Volo Bog. It turned out to be a good decision to get there so late – the light was much better. my husband David’s photos look a lot better, he’s got the better camera. For a while. Whee! It was a nice time, and in spite of all the cars in the lot and people who seemed to be arriving, we had the whole trail to ourselves except for the first 200 yards or so. At one point, we stopped at the duck blind and settled…
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Hey! Guess what happened next? Yep, I was upstairs talking on the phone while standing on the stairs between the kitchen and the family room, and I was stupidly wearing some clog-like leather shoes with sticky soles. I was sideways and started to slip off the tread, but the shoe stuck in place and I rolled over my left foot and hit the floor with a very solid thumping sound. Stupid me, David was frantically asking if I was hurt, and I’m all like “The phone! Get the phone! I was talking to Chris!” because I was in the process…
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It’s October – that means that the time of “Tacky Seasonal Decorations” is upon us. This year, the Big House O’ Inflatables has added to their Hallowe’en collection by adding a big scary lawn spider and a giant Homer Simpson wearing a skeleton costume. I was on my way home after church, feeling a bit low and anxious but hopeful (more on that later) but felt much cheered and uplifted after seeing the inspirational sight of a 12 foot Homer, not to mention a spider big enough to be Shelob‘s stunt double. Next month, of course, the Harvest Season will…
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Here is Steve at our recent outing to Brookfield Zoo, with a unique way to take tea for busy people on the go. (hurray! The moblog returns! For some reason, I couldn’t get it to accept messages for a while. Look for more images to come)
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There’s a lot of bad news in the world; sometimes it’s good to remember the sage philosophical advice of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.. I see via immediacy that it’s high time I checked in with the movie doings, and also the new radio series site, which includes hoopy things to check out such as the original text-based game (I could never get Arthur Dent out of his bedroom, but he had aspirin in his pocket). My God. Did I just say “the friggin’ new radio series??” I’m listening to it now. It sounds pretty…