Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope it’s full of ghosts and goblins and tricks and treats!

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Ganging agley

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Th need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow mortal!

(Poem by Robert Burns; eventual [...]

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Renovation news: October 27

There were two pieces of news when I went to the house this weekend. The first is that the metal roof has been delivered and is laying in the lawn:

Just laying on the lawn, mind you. Not being installed on any one of the sunny days we had last week. Just… laying… on… the… lawn.

The [...]

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Family photographs

Oh, you’ll have to forgive my blog slump. The weather is just so bllaaahhhh and when I wake up in the morning it’s still blllleeehhh and by the time I get off work it’s already blllllech. Makes things difficult.
Something I have been accomplishing is to scan carousels of slides and envelopes of photo negatives with [...]

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At home with Pudding

This weekend I scandalized Sparks by suggesting that Pudding doesn’t do much to earn her keep. He quickly pointed out that she spends hours every day guarding the property from skunks and raccoons, and how many skunks and raccoons have I seen in the house? NONE!
I wasn’t convinced that that was enough, given the [...]

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Renovation news, mid-October

Ah, the renovation. The renovation is really happening! There is tons of progress to report since my last post about it. Where to start…

IKEA cabinets are a good place to start. The shipment of 181 boxes had been sitting in the media room since last Thursday, so yesterday Sparks and I scooted over to the [...]

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Phew. Let’s talk about the weekend.

The Comcast box has been returned (stood in line for 15 minutes, oh well). There’s only one more part in the drama, and that is to see if they accept my payment of ~$60 instead of the ~$200 they claimed. If that goes well, the saga will be over. Well and truly.
Let’s have some nice [...]

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A story about Comcast

Bloggers are generally advised to tell the truth, but the “happy truth”.
Today I am not going to do that. I’m just going to tell you some truth, because it’s weighing on me. Let me explain… no, there is too much. Let me sum up.
In May, Sparks I decided that in order to economize, and [...]

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Remembrance of yarn shops past

Oh me, oh my. How it has gotten cold, and how quickly, and how wet and dark it is outside! It has been raining every morning, this week, which only makes it so much harder to get out of bed. I certainly need to resume yarny ramblings, and soon. I shall pick out an unfinished [...]

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Sunday patchwork

Ah me, a whole week has gotten away from me again. We were smashed, after the IKEA trip, and on Thursday the 181 boxes from IKEA were delivered. The driver did find a way to park his semi outside of the house, but said he couldn’t get the dolly over the gravel end of the [...]

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Monday blues & renovation news

Oh me oh my, what a weekend we had.
On Friday night we went out to eat at an Indian restaurant and half on purpose, half accidentally, ordered some very spicy stuff. We enjoyed it (and took antacids when we got home). Sparks, who has spent some time in Nepal, ate with his hands and enjoyed [...]

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October first

It is October first. That, to me, means it is really-and-truly Autumn now, no more excuses. It feels odd, this year… last winter was so long and cold and dark, and the summer wasn’t very hot. Maybe for the first time in my life, I’m not embracing the cooler weather.

I am trying to make the [...]

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