I proably had one of the bet­ter expe­ri­ences of my life this week­end. It would take sev­eral very long posts to tell you the whole his­tory of my fam­ily life, but suf­fice it to say, for now, that it was com­pli­cated, sad, dis­rup­tive and utterly not nor­mal. I have said before that I will tell […]

I just fin­ished hav­ing a root beer float. It was awe­some. Sas­safrass. That is what root beer used to be called. Would still be if I had my way. What a great word. Sas­safrass. The world is filled with won­der­ful words, don’t you think? I love words. Maybe because I love read­ing but I just […]

Okay…I am sorry Sherm. My post on sum­mer was a total insult to your new pet and so I humbly apol­o­gize. When I said I hated bugs I didn’t mean YOUR bug. Although I think that over the course of my life I have done in a few (maybe a lot) of her ances­tors. I […]

BugsHeatBugsMow­ing BugsNo RainBugsHumid­ityBugsWeedsBugsToo much rain­BugsToo hot to go out side­Bugs­Stores with air con­di­tion­ing on too highBugsTor­na­doesBugsCan­not take off any more clothes with­out being arrest­ed­Bug­sOne hun­dred degreesBugsSweat­ingBugsHot flashes in July­BugsPools too crowd­ed­BugsLake scum­Bugs­Bug bites I can­not reach Bugs­Bug bites on areas I can­not scratch in pub­licBugsBecom­ing a con­tor­tion­ist to put sun­screen on my back­BugsCars too hot […]

For some time now, I have had the oppor­tu­nity to drive by the worlds most per­fect gar­den. It is not far from here, in a lit­tle town of about 600 peo­ple. I guess in a town that size there isn’t much to do but gar­den or gos­sip. Maybe they do both, but the peo­ple living […]

Ha…get your minds out of the gut­ter.It took me 7 hours to reseal our screen porch inside and out and I am tired but wanted to leave you with a lit­tle some­thing to smile about. This was given to our assis­tant at the office.“This came to me from friends and I have to won­der if […]

Hi. I am back. I won’t ask if any­one missed me because proably few noticed I was gone and than I would feel bad. Wait. How would I know? At this point I proably only have half a dozen read­ers, so for you few die hards…yes I was gone and now I am back. YEAH!! […]