Sadly, I did not get photos. You will all have to stretch your imagination tall and long in order to wrap it around the mental image of a 24 foot uhaul–backed into my driveway.
Now, if said Uhaul had been mine, that would be alright. If it had belonged to a sister, cousin, or neighbor, I’d […]
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Hauling Away the Uhaul
Published by September 8th, 2008 in Home in the Rookery, Rumblings and Just for Laughs. 0 CommentsBlogging Birthday Number Two
Published by August 29th, 2008 in Blogging and Home in the Rookery. 0 CommentsSeriously, when I started this thing, I wasn’t sure I’d last two months, let alone two years. But the habit’s grown on me, and I don’t think I’ve gone for more than a week or two at a time without blogging, even when life threw up its spinach salsa and pickled eggs all over me. Been noticing […]
A bit of this, a bit of that, and some of the other, too
Published by August 22nd, 2008 in Home in the Rookery and Just for Laughs. 0 CommentsOkay, so Plainbellied tagged me, and I figure that’s as good a reason as any to catch up the plog, whoops, I mean blog. We’ll get to plogs some other time.
The rules are: List the rules. Then list three: joys, fears, goals, obsessions, facts. I guess someone likes three…except that I’m then supposed to tag […]
Tossed Travel with no Dressing on the Side
Published by August 6th, 2008 in Writing and Home in the Rookery. 2 CommentsYesterday was one of those days when it’s hard to tell if your life is cursed or blessed. On the one hand, we just caught our first flight despite longer lines than expected for 6:00 in the morning, and were on one of the last flights allowed to take off for Houston, landing site of wanna-be […]
Amongst my ealiest memories, way back in the hazy parts of my brain where the memories are a gathering of senses rather than a sharp image, I recall my mother reading from Tolkien.
We would begin each day gathered around her, often still cuddled in a blanket, while she read from the scriptures and then from […]
The Ongoing Saga of the Saltwater Tank
Published by July 16th, 2008 in Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs and Reef Tank. 4 CommentsBack in December (2007) when we got our tank I didn’t blog about it ’cause the tank was more for my husband. Besides, it was just before Christmas and I was overwhelmed with school, etc.
Then I fell in love with the tank, and discovered it was for me, too. My favorite date is to the […]
I promised a pic of Penelope, and here she is.
No, not the girl. The cannon half-buried in the sidewalk. She was dubbed Penelope and lived an exciting life as a kind of town mascot before dying mid-blast. She was given a full funeral and buried here, in the sidewalk outside an old news office. May the poor […]
So far, double thumbs up on the reenactment. Through a bit of careful planning and a lot of luck, we’ve avoided long lines in and out of town and had great views of the battles. Here’s a picture of me looking out toward the confederate lines and glassing the battle. You can see the union infantry lining […]
Our fourth of July weekend just had a twist added to the schedule. We’d planned to spend it up in Gettysburg, watching the Civil War reenactment, and then put in a day or so at Hershey. We’ve now tucked in a short stop-over in DC on both ends so the hubby can deal with a bit of work-related […]
We were out walking just after a big storm and went by the wetlands near our house. It was just before dusk, and all the frogs were out, too. They ranged in size from itty-bitty little guys the size of a small cricket who could hop maybe a quarter inch, to one good-sized fellow that would […]
