Packing is over. The house is now empty. Tomorrow we sign the papers and the house keys go from my hands to another's ( Read more... )

So, the new owners of my house came by with their architect. Was supposed to be for half an hour. The house is filled to the rafters with boxes and...boxes and I wondered how they could even measure anything when they couldn't even get into the rooms...but, hey, that was their problem ( Read more... )

`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is--Be what you would seem to be--or if you'd like it put more simply--Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise ( Read more... )

So, failing_light, I tried the meme and this *points below* came up.

Hmm. Well. Er. O.K. I will wait until you are...over before, well you know *looks sheepish and embarassed*

Also, I KNEW I should have bought those 10 pounds of potatoes. Curry, eh? Forgot about that recipe!

I was reading stuff on my computer when I came across something... it was forwarded to me ( Read more... )

Of course, there are several people who tell me that they really think I make everything up that I write about in this LJ. Hmmm. That’s a thought for the future ( Read more... )

Still very cold. No shock, there. It is winter, but I look out the window and see the chilled patina covering everything and mildly resent the weather. Joan and I cannot move her garbage can from the front of her house; it’s been frozen to its spot since several days ago and we cannot budge it (yeah, I know. We are some kind of weaklings ( Read more... )

Read that today is the most depressing day of the year (!) It seems that a Welsh psychologist has developed a formula that told him so ( Read more... )

A very dear family friend has died and Friday was his service. He had been a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and friend. He also had been a conscientious, capable, and trustworthy employee. His job was what ultimately killed him. The nature of his work many years ago had exposed him to copious amounts of asbestos, and there was nothing the ( Read more... )