We’re baaaack….

by | May 24, 2016 | Journal

Dear me, photos are urging enough to get to walking and drop a few pounds. We are safe and well. We went from Spokane to Buffalo WY (where new pet policies at our hotel (15.00 a head) make it certain we will use another routing)—then on to Sioux Falls SD, where...

We're baaaack….

by | May 24, 2016 | Journal

Dear me, photos are urging enough to get to walking and drop a few pounds. We are safe and well. We went from Spokane to Buffalo WY (where new pet policies at our hotel (15.00 a head) make it certain we will use another routing)—then on to Sioux Falls SD, where...

Back's been killing me. I got a new chair…

by | May 5, 2016 | Journal

with lumbar support. And I’ve got a real find, a ‘laptop cart’ from Office Depot, rolls right up to the chair at the right height, and better yet, the top can lift off and become a lapdesk. Best little laptop support going. laptop cart

Back’s been killing me. I got a new chair…

by | May 5, 2016 | Journal

with lumbar support. And I’ve got a real find, a ‘laptop cart’ from Office Depot, rolls right up to the chair at the right height, and better yet, the top can lift off and become a lapdesk. Best little laptop support going. laptop cart

Did I mention bashing myself in the eye?

by | May 1, 2016 | Journal

Bent over to get something from my purse, hanging on the coat tree…bam! right into one of the metal arms. That hurt. A lot. I don’t quite have a shiner, but I do have a very red eye.

The hard drive crashed. Bigtime. No warning.

by | Apr 30, 2016 | Journal

The good news is—Carbonite. I’ve pulled the critical file down off the cloud and have put it on laptop #2. We are running. They promise me a new drive by Tuesday. Dell diagnosed over chat, on another computer, while I read off instructions and Jane pushed...

We are FINALLY seeing light at the end of the tunnel…

by | Apr 23, 2016 | Journal

and it’s not the 5:10 train. We have just about finished the window trim and are beginning to move furniture from where it has been piled (in any large empty space in the house—scratch that: any place void of furniture. We have, since November blackout,...

Jewelry…lack of,—for some years; now repaired.

by | Apr 19, 2016 | Journal

We’re rough on jewelry. Admittedly. We don’t lose rings by taking them off. We damage them by wearing them while running a tiller, etc, or by just having the loop wear as a chain slides through. After nearly six years Jane and I treated ourselves to some...

Worked ourselves to exhaustion: I cooked a special dinner…

by | Apr 17, 2016 | Journal

And just as we sat down, we saw a huge puddle coming from under the entertainment unit, emanating from the freshwater fish tank in the corner, and soaking our new living room floor. We mopped, we moved things, we fixed stuff, we swore in ways Bet Yeager would approve,...