You know you live on the back side of nowhere when every couple of years the town grants in-city hunting licences. This is one of those years. We have a lot of area that is technically 'in-city', but which is, in fact, out in the country. Like the river bottom, which is less than half a mile from my house. And you can tell it's a holiday week, with ( Read more... )

An addendum to yesterday's weather report: There was none to report. When I got up at 4:50 this morning there wasn't flake number one to be found-none on the ground, none in the air, none anywhere. Apparently our winter storm fizzled before midnight. Today it's sunny and blue with big puffy clouds and a lot of wind, and still no snow ( Read more... )

We're under a "winter storm warning". It's 28 degrees, breezy, and we're expecting 1"-3" of snow by dinner, although it isn't snowing now ( Read more... )

Dear Idiot ( Read more... )

Also, the benefits of being neighborly ( Read more... )

I was in the store today (around here "the store" means Food Lion) and the lady behind me struck up a conversation as we waited. Turns out she's the grandmother one one of ThingOne's classmates. During the grad ceremony, the counselor announced everyone who had gotten a scholarship-apparently Classmate's was pretty hefty ( Read more... )

( neighorhood watch )

we don't live in a zoo ( Read more... )

I just got the new 'community' phone book-not the big one that has 3 area codes, 9 zip codes and 15 communities, but a new one. This one is *just* our town, and the surrounding county that considers itself part of our town ( Read more... )

I went to M's school this morning for an IEP meeting. While I was waiting for the IEP person to come out of the back office, I was standing there, leaning on the counter and looking around. Right in front of me were various machines-copier, fax, etc. The one that made me giggle though was the laminator. Someone had hand-lettered (in three colors of ( Read more... )