January 30, 2009 – 8:26 AM
Our next-door-neighbor’s driveway runs parallel to ours, meaning it is also relatively long and steep. As of yesterday evening, he had not moved his car or shoveled any snow.
Apparently, he went out last night.
I know this, because this morning we found his car parked at the top of OUR driveway.
UPDATE: The joke’s on him. [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:11 AM
Several inches of snow, followed by 1/2 inch or more of ice, followed by a few more inches of snow. This is the reason I no longer live in upstate New York, but every few years we get hit with it.
I’ve really got nothing to complain about. Our power must have blinked off Tuesday night, [...]
January 27, 2009 – 10:17 AM
One snow day is an unexpected blessing. Two or three are less so.
January 23, 2009 – 2:49 PM
If you’re a cat and you find a live mouse in the house, either let it go or kill it dead. Don’t just wound it and leave it for your human to deal with.
January 20, 2009 – 2:18 PM
In his inaugural address, President Obama said “Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices.”
One of the first commercials that ran afterward was for Powerball.
January 12, 2009 – 5:43 PM
The Kroger parking lot was fairly full this afternoon. I pulled in next to a silver minivan, turned off my car, then sat for a few minutes organizing my shopping list. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the minivan starting to back out.
Suddenly I felt a thump.
That’s when I realized that the [...]
January 10, 2009 – 7:31 PM
How on earth did my baby girl get to be 14?
January 5, 2009 – 1:14 PM
Mr. B and I started the new year determined to stick to our budget.
This was made tough even before the year began when we spent some time at his brother and sister-in-law’s new house and got our first real taste of HDTV.
We want one. We really want one.
But we agreed that we would try [...]
January 1, 2009 – 9:29 AM
Once again, I try my hand at prophesy.
January: BD turns 14 on the 10th. With any luck, we’ve taken down the Christmas tree by then
February: Once again, Mr. B and I eschew gifts for Valentine’s Day and settle for a quiet diner a deux, probably at home.
March: Warm weather gives us false hope before the [...]
