Had a great time Friday at my bro's, me and about 21 other people (mostly family). Lots of food, drink, and merry making had. Before supper a few of us sat on the scorching deck and watched the kids frolic in the pool and my brother barbeque. And what goes good with heat but a few Coronos w/lime. Soon you don't care about wilting in the heat ( Read more... )

We'll be going to a barbeque at my brother's place today. It's a ten minute drive outside the city, on top of a windblown hill, but the view is spectacular. In the evening we'll come back and take in the Jazz festival, and after that we may go to the fireworks display. Trouble is, getting near the park where the fireworks are held is almost ( Read more... )

After a hot day the sky looks like there could be ripsnorting storm tonight ( Read more... )

One day long ago when in highschool I was at home and laying about reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I was at the hitchhiker scene. My aunt, curious and probably alarmed about my intense giggling fit, asked me what was so funny. I stopped reading and considered how to answer her deceptively simple question. How could I explain their high ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to Alan Rickman and me. hehe I wonder what he does for his bd ( Read more... )

Good-bye January I'm glad you're done.

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As I've mentioned before everyone I know has a January birthday. Or it just seems that way.
I had two birthday celebrations this weekend. whew. The last was a birthday supper this evening.

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It was D's mother's birthday today, so, in her honour and because as a young girl she dug Sylvia Plath:
Winter ( Read more... )

So, everyone around here is on a Fall kick, eh? Everyone already gushing all over Fall. I hear it's all the rage this year. *snerk* ; )

What is it about Fall, Autumn, the death of Summer, the beginning of dreary skies and naked trees, that others find beautiful, wondrous to behold, causing them to cheerfully embrace its arrival? I don't get Fall ( Read more... )