Archive for November, 2009

Almost December!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Hello there! Thought I’d give you a quick update and show some pictures. We got to spend Thanksgiving up in the Duchy of Techno. No snow there yet, but gray and rainy for the most part. Not to be mean to Tesla, world’s worst car traveller, but he went to the Doggie Hotel. We’ve boarded [...]

Hurrah for the fun, is the pudding done?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY! MAY YOUR CRANBERRIES BE EXTRA TASTY, AND YOUR SQUASH EXTRA SQUISHY, AND THIS BIRDIE HOPES YOU’RE EATING HAM!

Goblins with Green Eyeshades

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Numbers don’t come easily to me. I have unhappy memories of sitting in math classes dazed and bewildered  On one of those “achievement tests” that are inflicted on high school students I scored in the 99th percentile on the Verbal part, and 13% on the Math- probably the lowest score in the school! Since [...]

“It’s Beginning to look a lot like” Whoopie!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Got the fruitcake fruit on to soak yesterday. Just for you, I took a picture of the “secret” ingredient. It varies from year to year, and since this is what was in the cupboard, this year it will be “Kentucky” fruitcake: So rahmembur, the seacrest to good cruitfake is finast qaulity ingredaments….
Does this sock make [...]

Million Dollar Hobby

Monday, November 16th, 2009

One of the best things about living out here in the Boonies is the local Agriculture Center. I’ve blogged about the great 4-H Fair held in July. A few years ago, a BIG multipurpose building replaced the venerable “show barns” and provided this area with new forms of entertainment: like bull riding (no kidding), wrestling [...]

Stoopid Time Changes

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I need to move to Arizona. AZ doesn’t change their clocks.
We have a clock radio set to go off at 5:00 a.m. Saturday night, figuring I didn’t want the radio waking us up at 5 really being 4, I changed it and went to bed. Imagine my surprise when the “top of the hour” news [...]