It’s been a busy week. My brother and sister-in-law were here visiting. They’re on a driving tour, which is especially fun since they’re doing it in their Mini Cooper convertible. Well, fun once they finally escaped all that rain on the east coast. I got to ride in it a couple of times and thought [...]
If you spill nail polish on your bedroom carpet and want to hide that fact from the mother who told you never to do manicures in your room, do not use a bleach cleaner to try to clean it up.
We’re back from camping. Once again, I survived.
I have very mixed feelings about the whole camping experience. While the weather was not quite the perfect 10 of last year, it wasn’t too bad. Still, I feel very exposed sleeping in a tent.
But at the same time, I take a bit of pride [...]
Yes, folks, it’s time to head off for vacation. We’ll stop in a hotel tomorrow night, but then we’ll be living the simple life. Camping. In a tent.
Mr. B’s family has been camping here since 1969. I’m a relative newbie, having made my first trip in 1982. I still can’t believe I’m a “camper.” I [...]
As regular readers know, I tend to lose things.
Back in March, our church held its semiannual consignment sale. Most sellers need to submit all their sale items to a check-in process, but those of us on the committee running the sale escape such scrutiny. We place our items in a designated place, and [...]
How sad is this?
I decided to google images with my own name. My real name, not “Bluegrass Mama.” I have a somewhat unusual last name, and only got one hit.
The picture was of a tombstone.
Yesterday was a lovely day, but it was evening before I got a chance to get to some gardening I had planned. Just dividing some creeping phlox and planting a few late begonias.
By the time I’d planted a few of the begonias and pulled up the phlox, I decided to call it a day [...]
We went to BD’s favorite Chinese restaurant to celebrate finishing 5th grade. She showed yet another sign of her new maturity by ordering something other than her standard beef and broccoli (orange chicken, if you must know).
The waiter at this restaurant is apparently a much better judge of character than the one we had this [...]
Just the other day, BD was climbing on the school bus for her first day of kindergarten.
Today is her last day of fifth grade. Earlier in the week, we attended her fifth grade graduation. Of course, it’s not really a graduation, and you won’t see that word in any of the printed material, but that’s what [...]
This spring, HS won an award at school. It even came with a check, which our English major promptly spent on books. The award was for an “original/creative” philosophy essay.
And I had to admit that the very idea of an essay comparing Kierkegaard’s philosophy to “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is both original AND creative.
The [...]
