Getting started

The weather seems to have slipped back to typical spring in Southwestern Ontario i.e. chilly and damp. There’s even snow forecast for tomorrow! Just when you thought it was safe to peel off a layer!
Yesterday was still pretty nice and – left to my own devices – I went out for breakfast with a crossword puzzle [...]

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Who am I?

I’ve been AWOL because, on the whole, I’ve been having a pretty lousy week. Shame too ’cause the weather’s been glorious. It rained some today and is supposed to go on in that vein and maybe even snow Tuesday! C’mon now! It’s practically May! Even down here in the “banana belt” we should be safe. [...]

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Daily Rant

. . . as opposed to the “Daily Om” and equally productive of serenity.
I’m always ranting about how no one takes responsibility anymore. (No one listens, either.) Everybody wants to be protected by laws and reimbursed through lawsuits and guaranteed that nothing their unsupervised offspring ingest or stuff in some orifice can hurt them (even if [...]

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Tension

I finally sat down this afternoon to address the issue of the new serger. I wrestled mightily with the problem and would like to declare vistory but – honestly – it’s a draw. The serger’s serging; it appears as my mother would have said to be “all in the way you hold your mouth”. It [...]

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Illustrations

I started a post yesterday but it went south. I mean I lost it. It’s out there somewhere, drifting around . . . a little like my mind. Happens to me with e mail, too. I’m a rotten typist and I inevitably hit some wrong key (Never know what key!) and it just goes away. [...]

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Who did I piss off?

So I cleaned up the sink and counter, ate my breakfast and started the laundry.
May have mentioned I broke the frames of my eyeglasses on the weekend. Called Dr. M’s office in Chatham to find out whether I was due for an examination (according to my insurer; my eyes are certainly due) but now it’s [...]

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Serging rage

No, it’s not a misspelling! Just let me say that – if you’re working on anger management – don’t buy a serger!
I got my third on Sunday, fourth if you count that I’ve been (not) using my daughter’s three-thread for a few months as she had more need than I of my (then) new four-thread. [...]

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Doin’ stuff

It’s what my friend, Paul, calls “a good coffee-drinking day” here - cold, damp, raining off and on – and it’s Saturday so I’ve got the New York Times crossword puzzle to amuse me. Taken altogether this is not a formula for significant accomplishment. Of course, I haven’t accomplished anything of significance all week but at [...]

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I have comments!

Finally “outed” this blog to my daughter who told her world and I have had readers. How weird! Nice, but weird. I only found out because wordpress sent me an e mail telling me I had to “approve” them so I’m sorry if anyone thought I’d deleted their message. This is a slow learning curve [...]

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Conspiracy theory

I was downstairs early (for me) this morning. (I needed to get the laundry done so I could get dressed as I was out of certain unmentionable essentials, OK?) Made a quick breakfast, started said laundry, bathed a dog, put a “chili” with leftover turkey in the crockpot and assembled ingredients in the breadmaker’s pan [...]

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