What a wonderful weekend. The husband decided that we should take a nice long hike on Saturday, because the weather was beautiful and we haven’t gone hiking in a while. The plan was for said hike to be a "leisurely" 10 miles, and we sort of guessed on the map where we should plan to…
Category: Nature Loving Hippy
Listen to this . . .
. . . so my manly musclebound man manhandled the massive new all-in-one washer dryer into the house, without a handtruck, singlehandedly. I was there, wearing gloves, close toed shoes and a sports bra, ostensibly to help but, for practical wimpy reasons, mostly just watching and getting mosquito bites. He did it all alone. Didn’t…
Hail Sucks
While the Professor and I spent the afternoon registering, blissfully scanning cookware, spatulas, and a panini maker at Williams Sonoma, it was hailing and storming at our house. My sister called us up to tell us not to hurry home, because of the storm. I planted a garden a couple of weeks ago. Every day I…
Cake or Death?
This morning when my coworker walked the mail to the mailbox, she found a beautiful female deer dying in our grass. It must have been hit by a car on the nearby highway – there was no visible blood or wound, but she was thrashing and trying to get up. My instinct was to stroke her head and…
Take Me Out Back
. . . and shoot me. Is this week over yet?? In two days I have trained a new employee, handled an employee’s fender bender (in a company car, sooo much paperwork), did all my coworker’s sales orders and mine, helped an employee with her taxes, drove a stranger to the dentist (his car broke down and I saw…