With the sounds of Frank Sinatra whispering holiday lullabies in our ears, the holiday season moved into full swing last night with the erection of a seven foot Noble Fir in our living room. A massive tree-lighting ceremony followed while the cats played handball with the lower hanging ornaments. There was one major glitch in …
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Starring In My Own Movie
The holidays come with snow. We’ve had snow on the ground for 24 hours now. Nothing spectacular just enough to make all the bushes look like frosted mini-wheats. The neighbors are attempting to draw me into a battle of who can have the most magical holiday light display. I feel like I’m in a Chevy …
Back Up Technology
Four days is the proper amount of time for a weekend. It gives you enough time to see everyone, get your chores/projects done, and spend quality time on the couch or in the chair recharging your batteries. Our visit down south was eventful. I spent a large portion of the time replacing my fathers garbage …
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The cook is in the kitchen. Today, I am working on stage one of the big Thanksgiving dinner feast that I am preparing to bring down to Pa Skelton’s tomorrow. I’ve got the kitchen humming at top efficiency and have b&w scans of master chef Julia Child stuck up on the cabinets with jelly and …
Hefty Hobbies
Sore back today from moving mountains of records in preparation for transplanting my office downstairs and turning what is currently my office into the baby room. I really wish I would have picked a more lightweight hobby when I took up record (vinyl) collecting oh so many years ago. I’m terribly torn as to how …
Reckless & Impetuous Are The Phases of The Moon
I suppose I jumped the gun when I mislabeled the storms we’ve been having around here as ‘monsoons’. Apparently, they weren’t monsoons at all but rather the remnants of Typhoon Cimaron, which beat the crap out of the Philippines and Vietnam before deciding to bring the fight over here. By Monday, I was beginning to …
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Paintballin’
The monsoon season has taken hold of the Pacific Northwest. The rain is falling with force and great volume. The wind snaps around knocking the house about. It sounds as if someone is breaking into the garage every few minutes. Good weekend all the way around. Again with Nomeansno Friday night at Dante’s. Excellent turnout …
Happy Halloween
Baby class tonight, which means no Halloween parties, no trick-or-treat, and no pumpkin carving. Hopefully, at the very least, they’ll show some type of gory birthing video cause if they don’t the whole night is a bust. Image above taken from Plan59. Bonus costumes: Captain Smalls, Coleson, and The Devil’s Minions.
Coach of The Year
The birthing classes are off and running and already we are knee deep in Wharton’s Jelly and calculating the viscosity of mucus plugs. You just can’t have a conversation about newborns or yet-to-be-borns without discussing at least three or four different types of fluids. Fluids, muscles, and membranes – the biology of fun. Our teacher …
Back to School
The neighbor on the Southern border of The Ranch has taken to watching television outside. He’s situated a television on his patio with the screen facing the direction of our homestead. And here’s the kicker, he only watches M*A*S*H. There must be some cable channel that playes M*A*S*H episodes back-to-back all day long. Seriously, I …