Now how’d that remote get into the silver drawer?

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I just spent two hours searching my house for a book I bought several years ago when I was dreaming of building a cabin in the woods. I never did find it, but I found a million other things that have been missing. Of course, I wasn’t particularly interested in finding them anymore. (more…)

My son William requested an ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery for his birthday.  I followed instructions and took the cake out 15 minutes before I was planning to serve. By then, the ice cream on the outside was beginning to melt so I began to carve.   I carved and pounded but it remained hard as a glacier.

William came in the kitchen to see what was taking so long.  Our guests started getting a little nervous when he went to my tool box and withdrew a hammer and chisel to give me a hand to cut the cake.  They began worrying about their teeth, I expect.

Rebel mirrors my activity over the past 24-hours. On Sunday we hosted a retirement/birthday party for my son William and my Dad, Tom Braddock. (more…)

My new roommate, Clint, brought his kitty over when he moved in with me. In case you missed the preface to this scenario, he is a tenant of mine whose apartment flooded. He moved in with me last Monday and we’ve co-existed - very comfortably I think - for the past six days. I will miss him when he’s gone. (more…)

As I walked Rebel and Lucky Dawg through the countryside today, I had a stroke of genius. (That’s very rare, and usually these strokes backfire in the end.)

But I was mulling over how to create a clever centerpiece for my Dad’s retirement party on Sunday. I had borrowed an old doctor’s bag from a local physician and was planning to purchase some flowers to fill it up.

Suddenly I looked up from my reverie and saw Lucky Dawg chase a rabbit into a spectacular field of milo. It was reaching maturity, and in the setting sun the field glowed in shades of amber and celedon (that’s rust and green in layman’s terms.) (more…)