Hoppin’ possum and other moments of life

We are almost having summer here. Summer, with golden red leaves in the trees and brown ones on the ground. 
I let Irritating Little Chihuahua out the front door the other night, and both of us got a bit freaked out by the sound of footsteps in the deep crinkling leaves at the back of the house.  [...]

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Irritating Little Chihuahua

Irritating Little Chihuahua is still giving the recliner a wide birth but she is ferocious in her sleep!

OR NOT!

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My Labor Day

I slept late and we are having a quiet day.  This is what I woke up to at 9 a.m.

This was not night time.  This was out my front door at 9 am and we don’t have fires to blame.

With the cool nights all summer in Indiana, the marigolds are about the only thing left, [...]

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How mean can some people be?

It is miracle Saturday.  I don’t usually get online on a Saturday; let alone one that is rainy.  So, I thought I would share a bit of my life with you.
When I do get online, one of my favorite blogs is Crazy Aunt Purl.  I have secretly been thinking about living in L.A. a lot [...]

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The wild life ain’t wild anymore

It’s so beautiful out today.  I love this property, with all the trees waving in the wind and the two fawns that have taken up residence (I think their mom might have died in a car crash).  Poor babies are eating all the red tomatoes and yellow roses.  They do not like the pink roses.  [...]

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Alone time: broken car, broken icemaker, live snake

Sorry, for the long absence. We have the log off our roof now. That’s good. I reformatted my computer, hoping to improve my Dial-up Access, but that is not working so well. I never get on to AOL with the first try and, when I do get on, other things seem to be constantly running [...]

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More exotic fun from Indiana

The rain has stopped, the sun is out and I am on my dial-up, for a while at least. I have been kicked off twice, so I shall type fast. This morning I had a party line on my phone. Thank you SOOOOOO much AT&T, for this wonderful service.
I am working industriously on the book [...]

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Trains and sleeping chicks

I grew up in northern Indiana and went to college and worked in Chicago for many years.  I have taken buses and trains to get where I was going since 1974.  I remember early South Shore train seats that were woven wicker and the windows opened because there was no air-conditioning.  Yes, grasshopper, I am [...]

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After a late night

The ground is saturated here, in Indiana.  This morning, on the local news, there was a picture of an SUV, in Indianapolis, being swept away by the rain.  It rolled and tumbled and was pretty much being demolished in the water that swept over the road.  Lesson:  Never drive over a road with swift water [...]

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Update on Bags of worms, see post of May 4, 2009

I would have posted a new picture of my bag of worms problem but it has become traumatic enough that I am not going near that tree again.  Husband and youngest boy are set to go out to cut the four branches the bags are on and, I hate to say this as it is [...]

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