Oddly enough, though we were home, we both missed the car going in and, later, getting out. Jeeze, I mean if I parked in a neighbor’s ditch it would at least be an excuse to say “Hi!”
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Somebody Broke Our Ditch
January 18th, 2012Christmas 2011
December 25th, 2011Christmas came early for one member of the family:
You Don’t Care; You Won’t Listen
September 26th, 2011So why do you bother calling? Really Costco, why waste the manpower to call me and follow up, leave a message, see how my “experience” was? It was terrible. It’s always terrible. Costco you are terrible, and I resent shopping at you.
But still, instead of listening in the first place, you call me up with some marketing cack, some directive to “see how it was”; and then you won’t listen, nothing will change and I will hate shopping at Costco just a little bit more. How do I know? You’re already not paying attention.
Black Widow
June 30th, 2011Found this little lady hanging out in my garage.
This is only the second black widow I’ve seen, the first was in Death Valley in 1998. I was pretty sure we had them around, but I’ve only seen a brown widow until now.
I trapped a housefly, and played die in the web after tearing it’s wing off- this wasn’t to be cruel, the black widow alternately came at me or hid when her web was disturbed. With the fly as bait I managed to get her where I could put her in a jar and release her later.
Hubris in Colorado!
February 5th, 2011Ever since my Heavy Snow in Colorado! it seems like we’ve been having a worse than usual winter- only a few days of 45° and sunny between snows, not weeks.
That said, last week was bitter cold, down to -14° and this week it keeps snowing off and on. Currently it’s piled up about 4-5″ and it’s still coming down fast. We might have a foot by tomorrow.
The worst part, it hasn’t been sunny. For three or four days in a row last week it was not sunny, and that’s got to be like a record. This afternoon the snowfall was too thick to tell if it was sunny (ha-ha) but it was sunny yesterday and also this morning. It makes a big difference, both in the melting and in the attitude towards winter dragging on.
Earlier photo after the jump:
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Fluxx Withdrawal
January 17th, 2011Well not really withdrawal, but I haven’t played Fluxx since my parents left in September. After playing playing several games, there were a few areas I felt needed cards, and some others I just thought would be fun.
I recently bought several packs of blank cards online, and recently created several from my list and a few new ones. Read the rest of this entry »
Heavy Snow In Colorado!
December 30th, 2010Everybody I talk to back in Indiana always thinks we’ve been hammered with snow out here. I’m not sure exactly what the news is reporting, but somebody here told me we were in for two feet last night.
Instead, I woke up to a typical December morning in Colorado:
This is our bitter cold, feet of snow, dreary winter people. Yes, it does sometimes snow as much as several feet, but even when it does it’s sunny.
Frankly, I don’t know why people are so inured to Indiana. I bet it’s gray and dreary and will be until April. But no matter, I heard from a guy in Greenwood who won’t move somewhere warmer because he’s afraid the water will run out.
I don’t get it, I mean I understand not moving up under a mudslide in California, or avoiding a city that gets battered by Hurricanes every year in Florida, but to stay unwillingly in Indiana over a vague possibility of water problems somewhere else? Crazy.
What is black and tan,
August 10th, 2010If you were stranded on a deserted island…
May 22nd, 2010…what one book would you bring?
Someone asked me this and I replied Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake. I started to read it once when I was younger and put it down- admittedly with some disgust that one of my favorite authors had failed me so. Returning to it years later, it’s the only book I’ve ever read twice back to back and enjoyed every word- again.
But this morning I realized that’s the wrong answer for me. The correct answer is a blank bound diary and a pen. Read the rest of this entry »
Generic Update
April 12th, 2010Well, lots of things have been going on, but nothing really worth posting about.
The barn (shed) I moved this winter to the ridge blew down, rolled down the hill and impaled itself on a bush. We recently had an insurance adjuster out and the barn it totaled, and there is wind damage to the roof of the house.
