I've at last been able to outwit a toilet. Let me explain. Our main floor toilet began to leak/run a few months ago. This was pointed out to us by the water company when they noticed how our water bill was growing significantly. The thing is, the toilet was sneaky, it would seem fine, then when no one was listening, it would begin it's water ( Read more... )

... I do try to save it in a bottle but it just keeps slipping away. Often, lately, when I look back on the previous several days I think, "what the hell did I accomplish? what did I even do?" I know the daily stuff of life gets done. I do eat and there are no dirty dishes piling up in the sink, I have clean underwear and socks (I even bought a new ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much back into the routine of daily life after the wonderful break in Aruba. Daily exercise is back on schedule and all the bits that make up day to day life (cooking, cleaning, trash out, etc) are moving along as they should. The shortfall seems to be in the creative and extra things area. I did manage to start work on a W/C piece on ( Read more... )

Here it is Saturday again... already! The time sure flies and I wonder just what I've been doing for the last week. I know there were a few visits to doctors/dentists for Wendy as well as her mom. While waiting, waiting, waiting in various waiting rooms I was able to make some more progress on a novel I downloaded to my cell. It's so much easier to ( Read more... )

Not a lot of excitement going on in my life. The trip East a couple of weeks ago was the last adventure. Still get to ride the bike in this enjoyable weather. The trees should be changing into their Fall grandeur pretty soon. A few anxious leaves have jumped the gun and are showing a bit of color now but it'll be another week or three before the ( Read more... )

Stepping outside to fetch the paper this morning brought me face to face with what portends to be a rather sticky and hot day. It's also smack in the middle of Labor Day Weekend which doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore. When I was teaching, it meant the end of creating and selling at art shows and the beginning another year of up every ( Read more... )

There hasn't been a whole lot of interesting happenings going on, not even any serendipitous events. There was one nice reconnecting with an old friend I hadn't seen in some time at a gathering the other night. That's always nice. Things are reportedly going well with her in a new job but not so much the area in which she has to work (Detroit ( Read more... )

Well, I kept busy today. Managed to get the lawn cut and a bit of weeding/cultivating... and thennn decided to fabricate a ring that's been in my mental picture file for some time now ( Read more... )

Seems like I must have been quite busy lately but with what I have to show for it, that's obviously not true. :-) Did get some more work done on the project to divide the basement into areas for different activities. I want to close off the woodworking area from everything else to prevent dust from settling everywhere. Also need to build some ( Read more... )

The clouds come marching two by two... well, actually more than two by two but that's OK 'cause I've already cut the grass. Haha! There's more that needs to be done outside, but there's no rush. If it rains before I get back out... tsk, tsk, that's what tomorrow's for. And besides, I'm now inside enjoying the cool and having a bite of lunch. Was ( Read more... )