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So my dad has a bread oven at the ranch. He makes admittedly amazing bread--crusty and soft and chewy, especially good when it's straight out of the oven. Over the course of fifteen years, he's more or less perfected bread. It's somewhat time consuming, and it's messy, but the end product is downright wonderful. He makes a ton of it for the ( Read more... )

I was fast asleep on Saturday morning when the phone rang. It was cloudy outside, and it seemed like the perfect sort of day to lounge around, reading books, and otherwise not doing much.

The phone call was from my father. He and my mother had gotten up at some absurd hour to stand in line at the Urban Harvest annual fruit tree sale. I knew ( Read more... )

My mother told me while we were at the gym this morning that my uncle reported yesterday that the dog won't leave my grandmother's side ( Read more... )

So I'm innocently sitting at my desk, doing work type stuff, and the phone rings. My mother is on the other end of the line laughing her ass off.

"What's up?"

"I heard the funniest thing on NPR."Huh ( Read more... )

My icon today is deceiving. It's the only ice skating icon I have, and I did go ice skating today, but I not once, not once!, fell on my ass.

The lovely downtown park in Houston, Discovery Green, has an ice rink during the holiday season. It opens up somewhere around Thanksgiving, and it closes this weekend. My group of friends went last year ( Read more... )

I walked into the gym this morning, and my mother says "did you find the pumpkin we left?"

"That was you? We thought we'd been tagged and cursed. Where the hell did you get it ( Read more... )

Graham and I spent the first five days of the week in Wisconsin, visiting his mother and aunt and uncle. It was a lovely trip, despite the rain for most of our trip. We spent some time exploring the area around the tiny town of Trempealeau, Wisconsin, but mostly we spent our time indoors, catching up with one another ( Read more... )

"So it's the 40th anniversary of woodstock ( Read more... )