The thing about small towns is that you seldom have huge groups of people. By which I mean over 50 or so. 50 can be reasonably accomodated in a church. After that, you run out of pews in a small town church ( Read more... )

Oh, I suck.

In the whole complicated cavalcade that was this morning, I left the kids' carseats in my car. Which means my parents can't pick them up. And the car is in South Hill, and sil has class in an hour and.....

aaaaaah!

I hate living in rural hell!

No apparent thundersnow in Mineral yesterday, but certainly lots of snow. The kids were v. excited. Their little friend Dalton came over, and all the people who were ready (ie not Baz) went on a ramble about town. I didn't have Kay's mittens done then, but I do now ( Read more... )

.... that I went to the less-hick grocery store in Morton. I mean, they have sushi-to-go! And yet, and yet, dear friends ( Read more... )

I did hit a deer. Well, I struck it a glancing blow. Usually, I am quite good at spotting deer. But this one came up from behing me on the right and was trying to get across the road. I made it down to about 10 MPH before I caught its rear leg on my front bumper. It fell and skidded, splayed out, a bit like Bambi on the ice. Then it got up and ( Read more... )

It's a fine day for ducks. Which is to say it's still raining ( Read more... )

Did we mention it's been a little bit wet? Just a touch? We have had a pineapple express parked over us for the month of November. As of this morning, we were between 6 and 7 inches of rainfall for the month of November in Mineral. Another 4-10 inches is predicted. 1 inch fell between midnight and 7 AM, and there were 3 inches on Saturday ( Read more... )