Labor Day Weekend

This is one of those “off the cuff” blogs; because no one is home anyway, nor posting to their blogs.  I have never considered Labor day to be a prime holiday; but last night someone near me was shooting off major fireworks and no one is posting to their blog.  Gosh, you would think people [...]

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Delivering lunches in Mumbai

Yesterday, I watched a repeat of Anthony Bourdain’s Anthony Bourdain’s Blog: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations : World, Travel, Food, Wine No Reservations in India. It was the “Bollywood” episode where he did this stupid skit about being a director and casting Bollywood parts for a movie.  Now, Bourdain may enjoy these skits, but it never looks [...]

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Viggo Mortensen – 99.9% perfect

Why I love Viggo Mortensen
 
What is it about stars that cause us, mere mortals, to feel we could love them? Actually, they are also mere mortals; just more visible and probably a heck of a lot wealthier. I think one thing is that they never show up to dump on us. They are so perfect [...]

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Jealousy, envy and idiot relatives

There doesn’t seem to be much humor in jealousy or envy. I know, because I have spent the morning doing my daily Google research on “humor in jealousy.” I did find one humorous blog post, by a cartoonist, at Humor Columns by Syndicated Writer Jason Love: Jealousy.
Jealousy seems to be a common trait. We all [...]

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Okay, this post is out of order. So shoot me!

Daily Overview: August 22, 2008
AQUARIUS
January 20-February 18
 
You are starting to notice little peculiarities in something at work or at home that should be perfectly normal It’s a good time to investigate further, though you may need to keep things quiet.
 

Gaffer and girlfriend were packing and cleaning all night. They tried very hard to be [...]

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Cooking raw and cleaning burnt

I always clean as I cook, which lately has been non-existent. It’s not that I mind cooking. I just made the worse deal of my life with my husband once and have paid for it for twenty-five years; he cooks, I clean.  Since I always cleaned as I cooked (soapy water in the sink, wash [...]

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The search for Frozen Brownies and Guns

It really is incredible the things you find, or find out, when cleaning.
One of my favorite books is a mystery; Tell Me Lies, a novel by Jennifer Crusie. Any book that starts with “One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Faraday reached under the front seat of her husband’s Cadillac and pulled out a pair of [...]

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Exploding Birds and Earthquakes

I slept on the floor last night.  On the hard floor, that makes my hip ache.
 
Last time irritating Chihuahua acted weird, well weirder than usual, we had an earthquake.
 
To recap: she went out every ten minutes for two days, then she fretted and pawed at us and refused to get up on the [...]

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Sunday is family day

Sunday was always family day when I was growing up.
Once a month, we went to my grandma’s house in Kankakee, IL and visited my sister. The other Sundays were just usually church, then afternoon meal with the family and quiet.
Part of my family has returned, from their summer visit, to their home base in Santa Fe. I [...]

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Chihuahua 0 – Flies 1

Now that the rabbits are fighting back, irritating Chihuahua has a new quarry.
 
Flies.
 
She never did this until we spent some time with my grand-dog, in Wyoming. This lab mix is a fly catcher. Chihuahua watched and has been trying to catch one ever sense. In four years, she has not caught one yet.
 
She will lie [...]

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