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Feces hole?
Yesterday would’ve been a good day to go to the pool since it had warmed up to 82 degrees. But it was Sunday and I knew it would be crowded. When the old lounge chairs were swapped out by the new...
Perusing.
The plan turned to reality yesterday. After lunch I packed up and headed to the pool. It was so nice and warm that between naps I was only able to read the forward and twenty-five pages of the pr...
Punked?
“The Throat” by Peter Straub was the 28th book read in 2017. I read 22 books in 2016 and 33 in 2015. So maybe slow reading is now the new normal. Or maybe I’m just not able to find books to line ...
Amused.
The last day of 2017. Nothing special about it. I’ve got ham hocks and pinto beans and onions in the crockpot. Here in about an hour or so I’ll be making cornbread and fried taters. I’ve finishe...
Hunky dory.
I spent a balmy seventy-something degree Thursday afternoon lying at the poolside. Yesterday morning after coffee I made a quick round of errands. I went to Ace hardware for supplies to finish t...
The invitation.
Late yesterday afternoon when I was online I found out that it was 21 degrees with a wind chill of 8 degrees back in the Ozark’s. I had to text Daughter and tell her it was 70 degrees here. She t...
Book haters?
Yesterday after I placed the amazon order for $100.23 (When did amazon start charging sales tax?) I dug out a quarter from my pen and pencil jar and took it with the ten $10 bills in to Mom and s...
Actually spending money?
The internet was out again yesterday. And maybe the day before too. I don’t really remember. Saturday I managed to get to the grocery store. By myself. The store was mobbed. I had a list and a f...
Working at Walmart?
Winter Solstice. 57 degrees today. Supposed to drop to 36 degrees tonight. And then back up in the seventies this weekend. I guess it’s better than 119 degrees? Or above 110 degrees for ten days ...
A very short visit.
There was a message on the answering machine Tuesday evening when Mom and I returned from playing Rummikub. My brother and his wife were here and that they’d found us not at home and they’d retur...
Walk your own.
It was completely overcast for three whole days. Temps were still in the high seventies, but it looked like it should have been much cooler. Yesterday the sun was almost uncovered. And today the ...
Another quest completed.
A day of errands started with taking Mom to her dentist. After that we went to Denny’s for lunch. Mom got to use her AARP 15% discount. We had enough food left to box up and take home. Next stop ...
Maybe today?
Mom and I were invited out to Thanksgiving dinner by my cousin and his wife. It was a small restaurant buried in the suburbs about a dozen exits west on the freeway. It was a nice, rather small v...
A suppressed urge!
I really dread going anywhere, but yesterday turned out fairly decent. Mom and I went to Tru Value. No quarter round. We went to Ace Hardware. I went in while Mom went next door to Dollar General...
A whole week?
It’s been a week since I’ve scribbled anything. I’ve been lying poolside, listening to NPR, and I finally finished that novel that I found in the little RV park library. “The Time Traveler’s Wife...
An errand day.
Saturday was Veteran’s Day. Mom didn’t make it to the flag raising. I basically took that whole day off by lying down and listening to the radio and napping. Yeah, I’m a veteran. A veteran of th...
Mis-read, again.
I’ve never said I was a writer. Choice of words. Syntax. Grammar rules. You know, all that stuff. I mean to say something meaningful and it sometimes comes out saying something else. I could just...
Tale of the toolbox.
The idea was years in the planning. When I was living in Daughter’s attic we hatched a plan to clean up the back porch. The idea was to by a huge toolbox on casters and consolidate all the little...
Another new routine?
Has it already been a year since America vomited up this so-called president? A little over one thousand days left to survive the stupidity. We may make it. Someone I’ve been reading here and bef...
Passed down from an Ancient Hooker?
I was up at my usual 8am this morning. It was 60.2 degrees in here with the windows open. Too nice! While I drank my morning coffee I swapped Moms scooter batteries with the two extra batteries ...
Winding down.
After my shave and shower yesterday I retired to my little room for a great afternoon nap. And The Moth Radio Hour on NPR. After leftovers for dinner I retired once more to my little room to watc...
A one week visit.
Daughter and Boyfriend finally arrived Saturday about noon. I had been receiving text updates on their progress and had been stalling Mom for over an hour as she was wanting to go out somewhere f...
Surprise for Grandma?
I finished reading “Sleeping Beauties” by Stephen and Owen King. It was a nice 700 page novel that took me a while to read because I kept getting interrupted. But alas, that is the price one pays...
My little space.
Is it really the 19th already? Time really does fly when I’m into a new novel and the event free routine is zinging right along. My “latest entry” was the 13th, nearly a week ago. The windows are...
Am I annoying?
Yesterday was more errands. First stop was the radiology place. Second stop was the primary doc for a script renewal. Third stop was a new (to me) little hole in the wall eatery where we had lunc...
