Test photo of Beagle w/Paint on his Ear
This is a test. This is only a test. If this was an actual post, you would tune in here for photos and information.
Apr
09
Tap, tap, tap…
Hello? Is this thing on?
Is anyone still there?
If so, welcome back to my UnBlog.
I’d like to extend my thanks to the hordes of Eastern European readers I’ve amassed over the last year who have so kindly continued to comment during my absence, particularly those who were thoughtful and enterprising enough to comment in broken English rather than in Cyrillic (my Cyrillic is rusty, I admit).
I’m also grateful to those who have been so incredibly concerned about my health. The countless reams of valuable information about cheap pharmaceuticals have been a Godsend. I’m sorry to have worried you – I’m fine, really. Finally, many thanks to those who’ve tried to keep my spirits up by forwarding jokes like this:
Where does you find dog with not legs?
Right where you leaves him.
Good one! That had me chuckling for days…
Do y’all have any idea how long it takes to delete 12,000 spam comments, twenty at a time? I’m going to be busy for a while. Why didn’t you tell me about Akismet before I went AWOL?
Anyway, now that Spring has arrived and the Earth is once again showing signs of beautiful no-longer-buried-under-two-feet-of-snow life, I figure this is an appropriate time to resurrect this blog. Hopefully over the next week or so, I’ll catch up on recording the highs and lows of the past twelve months.
For starters, meet Hank the Beagle…
…who joined our circus last July – because one can never have enough poop to scoop.
Apr
27
Goldfingers
Fairy dust?
I wish.
Pine pollen.
It was too hot to close the windows the other night, so we didn’t. Big mistake. Apparently, the heat prompted our neighborhood pine trees to begin spewing pollen. We have been pollinated, people!
Our house has been pollinated. The dogs have been pollinated. It’s everywhere, on everything, including in our ears, our eyelashes, between our toes. Our deck is yellow. The pollen seems to have formed a particular attachment to electronics, so I now have to take my computer with me to Philly this weekend when I pick daughter up for her short summer break to get it de-pollinated.
And I have to do an environmental cleaning of our house, but will have to wait until the trees are finished doing their tree-thing.
This is, like, the ULTIMATE test of my Zyrtec.
All is well here. We’re fairly well settled in – a few more things to put away, a few more things to do to the house, but no rush. It’s funny, semi-retirement: you work like crazy to get settled and then you sit there and stare at each other and say now what?
Since we both like to eat and since paying bills is always a good idea, the logical answer to now what? appears to be finding JOBS in this dismal economy. Heh.
So Yes, Dear will be working as a delivery driver a few days a week starting in the next week or so and we have taken over the management a resort area franchise service business which I’ll explain in more detail soon. We’ve also started working on putting together an Etsy shop. Again, details to follow.
Finally, to the comment spammers who seem to think this middle aged mom has any interest in seeing Miley Cyrus n*a*k*e*d, well, that’s just WRONG. And to the spammer who thinks I want to see Charles Grodin n*a*k*e*d? Oh, come on! Ewwwww.
Hope to be here more often in the near future. I have been keeping up as much as possible with my feed reader but haven’t had time to comment much. I miss you guys.
So how the heck are YOU doing?
Apr
13
Look who’s here!
The LILACS!
Just Awesome.
Hope your Easter was happy! Ours was great. The boys came down for the weekend and my sister visited yesterday for our Annual Welcome Spring Easter Barbecue. Yeah! Why wait until it’s 75 degrees and sunny when you can warm yourself over the grill in 50 degree temperatures with the wind howling at 30 mph? And why eat HAM when you can have THIS:
Mmmmmmmmmmm
And this:
And these:
And CANDY. Which I would have photographed except WHERE IS IT? I can’t FIND IT! OH MY GOD WE WERE ROBBED!
Wait. What?
Oh. I ate it all?
All of it?
Really?
Never mind.
By the way, you know what I think would make a REALLY, REALLY interesting TV show? Just combine The Housewives of New York City with Wife Swap. Send Bethanny to some redneck house in a holler somwhere and The Countess to a family farm or something. Just don’t send Jill to my house. I hate what she did with the apartment. I LOVE this idea. Who’s with me? Show of hands…
Apr
02
Nothing but a big tease…
Spring, that is.
Harrumph.
Sorry for the blog silence. I’ve been working on a project to be announced soon and looking for part time work. I still have my work-from-home clients, but damn, retirement is expensive. And living with a retired husband is NOT easy. I’m trying to make his life so miserable that he’ll go back to work and get out of my hair and I think I’m finally making inroads. He’s starting to roll his eyes every time I call his name instead of just the third or fourth time.
Speaking of Yes,Dear, today is our anniversary. Twenty six years or, as he says, the best two years of our lives. Haha. He’s a funny, funny man.
Totally unrelated: There is a flock of seagulls nesting at the end of our street and they chatter for a half hour or so every evening as they settle in for the night. Since we no longer have kids at home, we find ourselves talking to the gulls saying things like Girls, settle down and get to sleep, or Quiet down kids! Don’t make us come up there. And then we laugh.
Life is good.
