Ivy brought me a broom and said "Mama sweep!" (And where the heck did this child get the "tidy up" gene from anyway?) I swapped the broom for the duster and started de-cobwebbing the house. At one point, stretching up to get into a corner, I lost my balance momentarily and said "woop ( Read more... )

So it's been a busy few weeks ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, we attended another lovely party hosted by Cheese. It looked like it would be overcast, but ended up being very nice. The theme was "white" and everyone complied except barryfreed, who wore a t-shirt in honor of his recent skydive (he also brought along a dvd of his jump, which we all watched). Todd lost the croquet tournament for the first ( Read more... )

I came down with The Crud last Thursday. Terrible sore throat, runny nose. Soldiered on. When rainfletcher got home from work, I pretty much went to bed and stayed there.

Friday night, my dear old friend velvalynn phoned to say she was in San Diego and to ask if she could crash at our place Sunday night. We said of course she could. Cue frantic tidying. Which ( Read more... )

( Behind a cut, because it got pretty long )

Just got a telemarketing call from "The Mortgage Center." Typical spiel with no room to get a word in edgewise. Then, suddenly, it was like the caller was possessed: hard to describe, but staticy and growly and, well, demonic ( Read more... )

Maggie's been practicing jumping. Unfortunately, she's pretty clumsy, and last night she banged her chin pretty hard and drove her teeth into her lip. She bled a lot, and has a fat lip this morning. Poor thing.

It has been SO COLD. Now, I know that louiscipher, sitting in the middle of an enormous blizzard, and goat and kradical, on the east coast, are thinking " ( Read more... )

...but first, a message from Hokka Lewgie:

I got two flag caps! I got two flag caps! *breakdance*

Ahem.

( It's the Muppet Show! with our very special guest star, the Bay Bridge Closure! )

Day before yesterday some guy knocked on our front door and asked if we "do stucco." I was very confused by this, because if any house is in need of new stucco, it's ours. At first I thought he was a contractor offering to stucco our house, but no, he wanted someone to stucco his. He was gesturing vaguely at our front lawn. Very puzzling. Then ( Read more... )

This heat wave has made it abundantly clear that getting solar cells was an extremely good idea ( Read more... )