If I had to pick one type of food that I would eat for all eternity I would pick soup. It drives the husband insane that I find soup a wonderful meal. This recipe I got from Cooking Light a few years ago in an article about North African cuisine. It calls for lamb but [...]
My brother is getting married in April. I am going to make him a quilt whether he wants one or not. I was inspired by a quilt I saw in the background of a shot from Simply Quilts. It had (at least in my impression of it) a center made of bright colored hourglass blocks. [...]
I survived another weekend of trying to get the husband to refrain from discussing my paganism with my parents. He has no clue. Even though his dad was a pastor he didn’t live with him. He has no idea what Christian parents can be like. Since he also has no understanding of paganism anything that [...]
The parent people came down for yesterday and today because today is my birthday. (Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me…) They planned to help us put up drywall but we didn’t have the tools to make it easy so we only put up one sheet. I’m glad we stopped because my mother would [...]
Earlier this month I wrote about a new cat that showed up here and was intimidating all the other animals. She was also on a major campaign to be let inside. Well, yesterday she won. Yesterday was our first really cold day with some snow. This cat has apparently been a house cat all her [...]
It’s official. I’m as blind as a bat. I had to get my driver’s license renewed yesterday. Part of that is an eye exam. I couldn’t see anything. I remembered in the middle of it that the last time renewed I cheated to get through it. The guy ahead of me in line took the [...]
It is getting to be that time of year again. I signed up for Secret Santa. I did it last year and it was great!
I just saw this quote about fish on another blog. Makes me want to bang my head on the desk. The author was talking about fish and then said: as a vegetarian – they are the only species I eat. I don’t even know how to comment.
I had the weirdest dream this morning. I went to an amusement park/mall. The husband followed me. I wasn’t happy because I wanted to go by myself. We walked around a bit to decide what we wanted to do. There was a guy dressed as Dracula that walked past. We leaned against a big sign [...]
In the past few months Spirit’s been starting to act old. He’s not as talkative as normal and he’s getting cold. One night I put one of Prize’s winter blankets on him when he came inside. I mentioned it to the husband and said that I didn’t know what I was going to do when [...]
My dad is having a surprise retirement/birthday party for my mother this weekend. My dad is not good at subterfuge. He left me a message on my cell phone today to call him to tell him if I was coming. He said to call him at home and make up a reason why I needed [...]
I have french doors in my living room that open onto nothing. I guess there is supposed to be a deck there eventually but for now they are useless unless I need to escape a fire. Whoever put the doors in was not good at his job. There were gaps between the doors and the [...]
Someone ate Sammy! I just looked out my window and saw my poor bunny’s grave all dug up. That’s just rude. I guess it also serves notice that we need to dig graves deeper than expected. I’m not sure what kind of animals we have around that could do that. There aren’t any big dogs [...]
John Gibson, one of the anchors on FoxNews, is on a rampage about Christmas. Most of the rampage is fueled by the fact that he wrote a book about “attacks on Christmas” and needs to promote it. He has targeted WalMart because their employees say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Well, way to go [...]
Yesterday was my anniversary. On November 13, 1984 we bought Spirit. I decided to try to ride him home because it wasn’t that far and we didn’t have a trailer. I made it about 100 yards before a semi went by and sprayed slush at him. He dumped me and ran back to his pasture. [...]
I woke up this morning with a peeping tom looking through my bedroom window. It was one of the neighbors’ cows. They have the worst fence in the world. The cows pretty much walk through it at will. Today there was a group of about 6 out for a stroll. Luckily the barn was all [...]
Tis the season to be overwhelmed with magazines articles telling you how to “simplify” your holidays. The other day I was reading Country Living at work. (I’m not sure why it was there or in fact why it is called Country Living. There is not a speck of mud, let alone horse manure, anywhere in [...]
There has been one tiny step forward in the adoption quest. The kid’s bedroom has electric. When we built the house the bedrooms upstairs were unfinished. This was because we were broke after building the house. They stayed unfinished both because we were broke and because the evil mother-in-law was here. We did not want [...]
Someone started pounding rather insistently on my door this morning. As a very unsocial person (who happened to be in the bathroom at the time anyway) I tend not to open my door. When a period of time had elapsed I went to see if someone had left a package. What I found was a [...]
We did it! She’s a cowhorse! I led her in first to look at the cows in the holding area. She walked right over to them. Then she noticed that the cows had some good alfalfa that they weren’t interested in eating. So she spent some time trying to get her head through the bars [...]