I put together the bookcase. It went pretty quickly but I’m glad I have a rechargeable screwdriver. Bzzzz and you’re done. The bookcase arrangement isn’t elegant but everything is off the floor and couch. Even some of the cook/bakery books are on the shelves and that table is cleared ( Read more... )

1. LJ appeared in April 1999, the year when I…quit my job and started to go to pieces ( Read more... )

I plan to make some cookies to send to my sisterinlaw to accompany the pansy cup (how many cups do you think she has already on her shelves? Many? But are any of them encircled with pansies, I ask you?) My apricot biscotti, which have been acclaimed. But it’s been such a while since I made them, I’m going to make a test batch. Plus I’m using the ( Read more... )

I’m sending my sister-in-law birthday presents next month. I don’t usually do that; they’re the ones with the money so I just send a classy card. But it’s a big number birthday.

She told me, oh, decades ago, she likes pansies and I hope that’s still true because I bought things on Etsy that feature pansies. I’m wrapping them all separately to ( Read more... )

25 - Global Beatles Day: The Beatles still stand as one of the most influential bands of all time, famous all over the world to this very day. Do you have a favourite Beatles song and/or album? If you're one of those "I don't like the Beatles" people, why ( Read more... )

8 - Etiquette Week: the first Monday of the second full week in May marks the beginning of national etiquette week. Are there any social conventions you wish would go away, or that you wish would come back (or be observed by more people ( Read more... )

29 - International Astronomy Day: Have you ever looked through a telescope or gone to a planetarium? Do you have a favourite celestial body ( Read more... )

1 - International Firewalk Day: Have you ever done this strange practice? Would you like to try it ( Read more... )

The good news is that it’s persimmon season. And that it rained and there’s snow on the mountain ( Read more... )

I’ve been ignoring the daily questions because I’ve been also ignoring a plumbing problem. My kitchen sink started to drain soooo slowly. I tried to fix it and made it worse. It wouldn’t drain at all. I had to work myself up to calling a plumber. I hate the phone; I hate having workers in my house. It’s not the covid; I’m triple vac’d and am ( Read more... )