February 12, 2008 – 11:28 AM
Today our part of the world is a snowy, icy, rainy mess. The other day, however, was so glorious (40s and sunny now qualifies for that distinction), that I went for a walk near a local horse farm.
I noticed one of the farm trucks parked far ahead of me in the road. Then [...]
December 17, 2007 – 9:24 AM
In an effort to write about something other than Christmas, I am going to talk about the weather.
After this summer’s drought, the weather has turned gray and gloomy. It seems like it’s been this way for months now, though the sun has peeked out occasionally. On the news this morning, it’s official. Our rainfall amount [...]
November 15, 2007 – 8:52 AM
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has been in Louisville this week, and it has literally been the talk of the town.
Instead of a makeover, this was a demolition and complete rebuild for a family that has already been in the news. Their oldest son, Patrick Henry Hughes, is blind and confined to a wheelchair. [...]
November 6, 2007 – 8:19 AM
It’s Election Day here in the Commonwealth. And besides being one of the few states to call itself a “commonwealth,” we are also one of the few to hold elections for statewide offices in non-Congressional race years.
Which means that we do not get this year off from all those annoying political phone calls (funny how [...]
September 5, 2007 – 11:45 AM
People often joke about how everyone in Kentucky is related to everyone else. I got a good chuckle when BD’s birth certificate listed my married name as my maiden name (suggesting that Mr. B and I were very close indeed). Then I promptly sent it back to be corrected.
This past weekend HS traveled halfway across the [...]
That’s what the University of Louisville baseball fans were cheering yesterday.
The Cardinals had an 0-1 record in post-season play prior to this year. Last weekend, our unranked boys staged an upset by winning their four team regional playoff out of the losers’ bracket. Yesterday they clobbered Oklahoma State in the third and deciding game of their super-regional, and now our boys are [...]
We have plenty to celebrate here today.
1. The Kentucky Derby, of course. The TV is on as I write. So far our bets are not panning out.
2. Cinqo de Mayo. The Corona is chilling in the fridge. We may be drowning our sorrows in it later if our luck doesn’t improve.
3. Mr. B’s birthday. Funny [...]
10. All the local morning shows are broadcasting live from Churchill Downs all week.
9. The liquor stores have signs up saying they will be opening at 6 AM on Friday and Saturday.
8. Horses have replaced gubenatorial candidates on the front page of the newspaper.
7. All of the highway medians have been mown recently.
6. People are racing around in [...]
My hearing is slowly returning this week.
We spent Saturday in downtown Louisville with about 850,000 other people (well, some of them were actually on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, but we’re still talking over half a million). It was Thunder Over Louisville, the opening of the Kentucky Derby Festival.
In the 17 years we’ve [...]
February 19, 2007 – 10:07 AM
In a Mazda Protege, don’t leave the little lever that determines if you’re circulating inside or outside air in the middle between the two settings. Outside air will then blow on the front passenger’s legs even if the heat is pumped all the way up. And if the outside temperature is hovering in the teens, that is not a comfortable situation. [...]
