Happy Halloween!

Here’s a photo of the pumpkins we carved last night. Zander donates to Zombie Pumpkins every year so we can access their patterns.
A little halloween-y ghoulish music. I wonder if Axl was singing about his career.
And halloween wouldn’t be complete without some zombies. Even zombies need to de-stress every now and zen.

Garlic Time

October is the prime month to plant garlic in the PNW. I’ve never grown garlic before but I sure want to learn how to grow it well. Nothing much can beat the flavoring impact, and health benefits, of garlic. It’s very sustainable, too, once you get the hang of growing it. You [...]

I like to singa…..

Every morning and every evening, like clockwork, Miss Virginia and and Mr. Skeeter get into a bark-fest. They wrassle around, show their bicuspids to each other, Mr. S throws his toys up into the air in a “yipee!” like gesture. It’s definitely noises of joy, but damn they are loud. When [...]

splishes and splashes of thoughts

Why is it when I cook in someone else’s kitchen I become an instant eejit?   I fumble around, wiping every miniscule drip, worrying if I get crumbs on the floor.  I clean up, of course, when I’m all done.  That should be sufficient.  In someone else’s lair, however, I don’t want to step on anyone’s [...]

Why are tears seen as weak?

I go out of my way to hide tears.  When I watch a movie that touches my heart, or I’m frustrated, or I’m struggling with sadness, or even when I cry because joy is spilling out of my heart,  I have this overwhelming urge to hide my tears because I divert to this weird feeling [...]

Investment chatter

All my investments are tied up in change at the moment.
~Lew

Chemo

What does 6 months of chemo mean???  That sounds like * a lot * of chemo.
Edit: Sorry to be so vague.  My mom visited her oncologist for the first time yesterday and was given a few different treatment options.  She chose to go with the 6 months of chemo.  The malignant tumor was a stage [...]

The hell with doom

Miss Rosie has been giving me a few gentle reminders about updating my blog, and I’ve been remiss in promise to do so.
I’m a bit stumped on what to write about. I have much to opine over, but darn it, the end the result is too often the following: “Doom on you. [...]

How do you explain our current economic tribulatons effectively?

At dinner last night, Tee was asking questions about the bailout fracas and mortgage imploding blackhole. Lew and I were doing our best to answer them with as much detail as possible. After dinner, Lew and I discussed if we had done a very good job with our explanation.
My sister-in-law’s boyfriend sent Lew this [...]