Category: Everyday Stories
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wherein I tell H.o.p. he's dreaming…
No, no. A third time no. These are the other two castle Dover books we have on hand that H.o.p. wants to make, like tomorrow. Cut & Assemble A Crusader Castle in Full Color, The Krak Des Chevaliers in Syria, by A. G. Smith and Cut & Assemble a Medieval Castle: A Full-Color Model of…
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Hey, sucka…
We made the “Easy to Make” Dover Book castle today, designed by A. G. Smith. See, that face below? H.o.p’s not waving “Hi” to you. He’s waving, “Hey, sucka!!!” to me. Why, “Hey, sucka!” C’mon, take a guess. Any cut-out-and-build castle that bills itself as too easy is going to leave a nine-year-old wailing in…
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In which I wander on about vinyl tablecloths (unless you want to read how you can get mythologial and wily with them, you can pass this by)
This is what I’ve come to think of as The Lab. Our home in general, not just the supposed dining table. Because it’s really just a platform for H.o.p.’s experiments. The table is sparely set at the moment. It’s what we call Clean, not being filled to the brim with clay and Legos. There are…
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The Tablecloth
Why are nice, despicably vinyl tablecloths so hard to find? I mean nice as in vaguely interesting. Our last one was big green and white squares with pears all over it, and after a few days I grew to like it and then became fond of it. Before that I was using a vinyl wall…
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What we did for Easter
Anyway, what we did for Easter, which we don’t do here but who’s to deny H.o.p. an Easter basket, right? And when other people want to do Easter and invite us we’ll be there painting eggs with them if they like. Friday, Marty mentioned he wasn’t feeling too hot. Saturday, I got up with my…
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The "official photographer" didn’t do so hot
The Birthday Niece Light box enlargement Scads of nieces and nephews at yesterday’s birthday part. From the right, there’s a nephew, there’s a nephew held by a sister, there’s a niece right below reaching for something amongst the paper plates and the birthday girl niece beside her. Well, not scads, I guess. One more nephew…
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I personally think the second dino was eaten
Re the prior post. Memory is funny. I went to look at the Registration Desk painting I’d linked to and it promptly spat back at me one particular video I was listening to when working on the carpet and one of the walls of the yellow-green lit back room. Now we have all those other…
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Ah, gee, Google, stop with the love, you're embarrassing me
How sweet. Looking at searches that bring people here, I find that my blog comes up #1 in Google for the search… oven smells like mouse urine …because of my recent kitchen post which mentioned nothing about mouse urine but someone else’s one time problem with it was discussed in the comment area. This post…
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This is the level we're working on today
So, I mix up some blueberry muffins but then we spend 20 minutes looking for the muffin pan and can’t find it. You’ve seen pics of our kitchen. If we can’t find it, the muffin pan’s not there. It left home. So Marty is going to run get a muffin pan and goes to get…
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An awful mess
Good griefinicious, there lies my brain, on the floor, all drippy puddled and entreating me to try to mold it so it has some measure of coherence again. But it ain’t happening. When I nudge it, all I’m getting are little burps of H.o.p.’s computer game music. Oops, now it spits out anxious images of…
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Mundane observations
1) Brush teeth with mint toothpaste 2) Immediately thereafter pop a Flintstones Gummies vitamin… 3) While your son is getting cabbage-filled pot stickers out of the microwave What happens is intense, but not a treat for the senses. Another tastebud curiosity. Explain to me how it is that H.o.p., who is about the finickiest eater…
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She was Our Mother, so she cried
My sinuses are exploding, I’m fuzzed with heavy duty Benadryl but can’t sleep, can’t think to do anything marginally useful or productive, and so here I am ready to talk about George Alec Effinger’s “What Entropy Means to Me”. Jennifer at Saying Yes picked it up as I’d good things to say about it and…