Here is my life the last few days.…
The National Weather Ser­vice
Des Moines, IA
6:31 pm CST, Tue., Mar. 9, 2010
… DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT…
A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT.
* SHORT TERM TRENDS… CONDITIONS ARE BEGINNING TO IMPROVE IN FAR SOUTHERN IOWA SOUTH OF HIGHWAY HIGHWAY 34. AREAS […]

Appar­ently I am the only one wor­ried.
Today they reported another earth­quake in Turkey. 6.6
Haiti
Chicago
Chili
Turkey
HELLO????  The earth­quake in Chicago, felt in Iowa, was on a lit­tle known fault and now it shakes? After the huge one in Haiti? And then there is a big­ger one in Chili? And this week in Turkey? EVERY WEEK??? Is no […]

It has hap­pened enough times now that I have to take it for real, espe­cially since I believe in spir­its, that there is an “old woman” liv­ing in the hayloft of our barn.
Our 5 year old grand­daugh­ter loves our hayloft. LOVES IT!. Says every time she goes up there “grandma, this is the best place in […]

Because we are spend­ing around $500 every 6 weeks for propane, I decided to call and ask the com­pany if the amount we were going thru was “nor­mal”. Now…I know we have an old farm­house, but it has also been rein­su­lated. I keep the ther­mo­stat at 60 dur­ing the day, 62–64 in evening and 58 […]

I have heard a cou­ple things in the last cou­ple days that make me want to put these warn­ings out there in the hopes that more than 10 peo­ple, 5 of whom I know, are read­ing this.
Today there was a news report of the grow­ing con­cern of kids swal­low­ing those very small but­ton bat­ter­ies. They are […]

So. Have been down and out with sore back last cou­ple days and after visit to chi­ro­prac­tor yes­ter­day, now feel like I can move again.
One minute I was sit­ting read­ing some­thing, stood up to leave for an out­ing and bam…thinking “wow…that was weird” and it was down­hill from there.
I have had occa­sional back issues. This one is […]

I cel­e­brated my 58th birth­day on Mon­day.  I wish it meant I was just start­ing my 58th year not end­ing it!! Some­how, know­ing you are start­ing your 59th year makes it not quite so much fun.
Some peo­ple like to take stock of their lives on the first of the year. I like to do it on […]

Well.…bet every­one won­dered if I’d dropped off the earth or something…which really is quite a funny say­ing when you think about it…I mean really, has any­one EVER dropped off the earth? No. But it is a great visual.
It has been a fun, fast and furi­ous week and I am glad all is set­tling back to […]

This morn­ing, get­ting some­thing out of a lower cup­board, I acci­den­tally pulled a very heavy pan out that landed squarely on my big toe. Now that I can breath again, I fig­ure it is not bro­ken but the nail is a goner. Holy crap that hurt!!
My ques­tion, how­ever, is not about my gen­eral clum­si­ness, but why, […]

Don’t know if you have seen the video mak­ing the rounds of  Sarah P.‘s snafu where she had writ­ten notes to her­self, for her speech, on the palm of her hand, and then must have for­got­ten as she was ges­tur­ing and it was there for all to see? Well, it is pretty funny. They also […]