So my in laws have gone on a 2 1/2 week river cruse in Europe for their 50th Wedding anniversary. And all I got was this lousy dog. lol She's not too bad, but she has a lot of energy and we have no yard for her to be let out in. So we have to walk her. And she walks faster than we do, and I do try to give her some speed,, but I'm just not young ( Read more... )

We got the boy safely back to school for second semester yesterday and then last night the snow started. I was expecting a flurrry, a dusting or so, but no, we got a good 4 inches. Is this the begining of the end like last year? I don't know. We are expected to get a week of crashing cold weather, which after this very warm winter so far will be a ( Read more... )

Yeah, the moon looks pretty cool out there. One of the few times the clouds have not obscrued an atronomical event. No photos though, our cameras are not built for in the dark, far away photos. But Facebook has plenty.

I meant to post Friday but didn't. An unusual event happened. Someone dumped yet another dead animal at the cemetery. You can tell ( Read more... )

Yeah, its that time of year again. We dropped the lad off at college today. This was much easier than last year. A: He's in a dorm that's palacial compared to last year, with only one roomate and AC. B: The roomate is his friend. C: He has a great support network of freinds who know him and he actually also knows. From the time we parked the car to ( Read more... )

Snow is rapidly retreating.. though with more than 4 feet of this crap, it's not rapid enough. The mountians in front of my house are finally low enough that I can see the street again.  There is room for more snow should we get it, and trust me, I'm not ruling out an April Fools storm.. 2 so far in the last 18 years.. you never know anymore.

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Sigh... Maybe this will work better.. who knows.

The lad is home. Yay. It was snowing on the way home but not sticking. Also Yay. Apparently it's going to be in the 50's and raining like a bastard Christmas Eve. Well, if nothing else, we shoudl be getting some of the water we missed this summer.

We had our annual Christmas party yesterday. It was ( Read more... )

Well, we finally got a new matress. After going to Sleepys and being told 'they dont make mattress that you flip" anymore.. we almost settled for a mattress that was pretty firm, but then reallized it was the same name brand that we had been so bitterly dissapointed with before, and had suffered with since. So we decided, which we had considered ( Read more... )

So it's been a week, I've gotten minimal responces to any querries or information I've IM'ed him, and while he did call today, it was while we were away, and um, I IMed him that we were going to be away, so WTF? Come ON! He said he'd call back, and here is is 11pm and nothing, though when I IMed that we were going to bed and he could call tomorrow ( Read more... )

And my stomach isn't in knots, but it's not resting easy either. Sadly, he's in a forced triple, a room meant to be a double but with a bunk bed set up for a third person, which of course is my son. We were given an arrival time of 2pm, we were there right on time, and by the time we got in, shortly thereafter, we were the last ones in the room. ( Read more... )

Went up to Salem today. It was supposed to be a trip on the train to get Himself a run through of how to get from here to there and back again on public transportation, but that didn't work out. More on that later. So just Ryther and I went up, and we had a good time. Went to the Peabody and Essex museum, and saw the art exhibit of Turner, who did ( Read more... )