All Quiet on the House Front

Last night, Lynn and I watched The Orville, a television show created by and starring Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad — that Seth MacFarlane). It’s either a total rip-off of, or homage to, Star Trek in its first couple incarnations. But it entertains us; that’s all we ask. Last night, to escape the relentless, […]

Driving My Way

At some point yesterday I had a thought: if Dusty’s on vacation, I get a vacation, too, from decisions for a week. That might have been a wrong thought. Lynn spent her free time yesterday looking at flooring. And then she took Oz out to the lot, where Jay, the backhoe operator, had clearly been […]

Come on, Baby, Light a Fire

Making wrong decisions are a part of life. You know, learning from our mistakes and all that? Well, it turns out, there’s a different kind of “wrong,” and Lynn and I are excelling at it. Wrong as in “focused on what our contractor tells us” rather than “focused on what he really means.” One […]

Let’s Be Arch, Shall We?

When I was 10 or so, I owned a book called Good Old Archibald, about which I remember very little. But these days, we don’t have to remember anything, because the internet does it for us. Archibald was a new kid in town, and he came with a lot of money to a place that […]

Color Us Excited

It’s official: our Some Day house will no longer look like our local Sonic. I know, I know: it’s disappointing, particularly if you were looking forward to the drive-up roller-skating service we might have offered, but Lynn and I are not sad to see it go. It’s not like anyone forced the choice on us […]

Saturday Inspection Tour

As soon as I finish this, this which I’ve barely started, Oz and I will head out on our Saturday morning routine: walking to Carol’s, where we inspect her house to make sure there are no leaks nor plumbing problems, and that the back door that popped open during the coldest days remains closed; and […]

My World is Blue

There was a time when a neighbor family gifted Terri and me (Tia was around, but barely) a pair of Frisbees. One was red, the other blue. The blue one was actually a much nicer disc, but since I was 6 and Terri 4, “quality” wasn’t nearly as important as “color.” In good oldest sibling […]

Where We Are

Way back on Feb. 8 my blog post was about the decision I needed to make that day regarding my bathroom, although I wasn’t sure what decision needed to be made. I guess nothing really had to be made, because Feb. 8 came and went, and so have a lot of days since. This bathroom […]

The Great Electrical Tour

My need for an electrician over the years has been small at home, middling at work. I found a reliable work-related electrician in David Neff, who kept the equipment at Pat’s up and running for nearly two decades before he retired and moved to Maine last year. Stepping smoothly into David’s shoes is Peter Darling, […]

Slowly by Slowly

My friend KT, whom I haven’t seen nor talked to in years (she moved to Oregon and both of us writers, but not diligent correspondents), spent some of her formative time in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. And at some much later point she introduced me to a saying she had encountered halfway around the […]