forest_lady posted a note at one point musing on the arrival of fall in her neck of the woods. At that point I was thinking "Hmm. Not here yet." But today...I smelled it. The trees. The trees smell different. It's not just the geese traveling for me anymore. That's typically the first sign. But the smell cinches it. I can smell Fall, and not just because the ( Read more... )

...how it is that I seem to be getting smarter. Case in point: freezer cleaning. Today I cleaned out our venerable chest freezer and found, to my amazement, an entire cooler's worth of things that really had no business being in said freezer. Meat from 2000 that somehow slipped to the bottom. Things that were not labeled or barely labeled and ( Read more... )

After owning the series premier for a few *years*, I finally got around to watching it all the way through. Wow, it must be my mood but I need something life affirming again. I felt the same way recently after watching The Dark Knight.

Should I even bother to rent/buy the series by season now?

In case I haven't stated it strongly enough before....Freecycle rocks. I totally garbage picked some stuff from a neighbor down the street who didn't sell some things at a garage sale. All the leftovers went on her curb for garbage pickup, so I picked out the things I thought would go in a reasonable amount of time on Freecycle. With one exception ( Read more... )

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I hate polls, so I'm just going to troll for answers and hope that people on my friends list have some experience here in this arena ( Read more... )

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There were butterflies in my garden today despite the horrendous winds. Maybe life isn't so bad after all. If I butterfly can do it, so can I.