Posted in Family Dynamics, My life, Parenting on August 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So, I eavesdrop.
Not intentionally, mind, although sometimes I do hear things when I tune into the talking around me. Ours is one of those open concept homes, with a kitchen/kitchen eating area/living room all connected, so when folks are talking sitting at the table, or hanging out on the couches, the sound will carry. [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, My life on August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Lordy.
I’ve been sucked into the various endeavors around my house and life and have only just dodged them to sit down and bloody WRITE. My grading can wait, so too can my bill paying; I just wanna post.
So, in O’Mama land, life is approaching normal operating procedure, with kids soon starting up back on a [...]
Posted in My life on August 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As much as I would like to spend time composing a kick-ass post, I am just too damned busy; until my kids go back to school next week and my imminent weekend guests arrive and leave (and I am looking forward to their visit), I am crazed. Here are some shots of life outside my [...]
Posted in Organic Gardening, Teaching, Ten things Tuesday on August 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s not subtle.
The illusion that is the summer is dissipating; no matter how hard I cling to the particles, the signs are everywhere. Back to school mania, with store circulars hawking their latest and greatest stuff campaigns, is inescapable. Bleh. We’re using much of last year’s stuff, but we must augment the leftovers with more. [...]
Posted in Bitching, Family Dynamics on August 19, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Sometime last March, my in laws and the four of us sat down to a family powwow where we all laid our grievances on the table and resolved to communicate directly. Bob’s parents had spent the previous months inexplicably not talking to us and we decided to have it out with them. We aired [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, My life, Parenting on August 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Really, I know I have gone on and on about the whole daughter-deprivation thing, but as the day of the reunion is actually HERE, like in T-4 ish hours, I’m going a little bugfuck (to quote the wondrous Harlan Ellison). In order to properly keep my twitching under control, I am going to:
1. Bake [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Life with Dogs, Teaching on August 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Each morning, to show how cute he is, how irresistible, Shem will roll over, bare his furry belly and gyrate, growling softly. Wenchface knows better than to approach him in such a moment, but we don’t either. Capture a photo? Not a chance. Until now, Shem has always flipped onto [...]
Posted in My life, Organic Gardening on August 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
With a profusion of milkweed on our property, my front garden is very much a nesting and aerial dancing spot for these beautiful butterflies. They LOVE echinacea.
The front walkway to my house, with sedum, echinacea, hot pink hibiscus in flower and white hibiscus, ready to burst forth, Russian sage, perennial sunflowers and the two [...]
Posted in Bitching, Stupidity on August 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Underneath me in the garage is a car that, until very recently, I did NOT want to drive unless I had loud music or a cranked AC. The Rendezvous’ transmission made such a ruckus that my friends routinely suggested taking THEIR cars instead of mine to preclude a trip’s worth of dentist-drill caliber aural [...]
Posted in Food, Life with Dogs, My life, Organic Gardening, Ten things Tuesday on August 7, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s crunch time - mere days until I depart to retrieve my children and with them, bring home my mother, for a visit. Of the projects I industriously began at the beginning of the illusion that is called summer, few are completed and most wail at me silently as I walk by. As [...]
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