Birthday week of 2017 was a doozy. Music. Sunshine. Friends. Food. Family. Frolicking. Revelry. Reminiscing. More music…and a tad bit of introspection. We had been in Orygun less than 3 months when Jackson Browne released “The Pretender.” If I had a “ben franklin” for every time I have played the album since I bought the…
I’ve always been good with numbers…at least that’s what they tell me. I was a CPA once upon a time. I was/am a number cruncher, but I was NEVER a bean counter. “But this can’t be the right number….” -=-=-= I had just turned 17 when The Who released their first album. I cranked it…
March 13, 2017. Weather sucks. In the mid-thirties for the high temp.. My “early garden” is probably toast. Fuck me. But it will all be good. Nothing ventured…and all that. 5 bucks of seeds and i’m back in business. I’m gonna go cover my garden as soon as I post this. I repeat: Fuck Me!
The folks at Hallmark have missed out on this one. Thank goodness. There are several “Hallmark holidays” e.g., Grandparents Day, Sweetest Day, and Boss’s Day…“holidays” that exist primarily for commercial purposes, rather than in recognition of a traditional or historical event. And then then is the “holiday” that I fell for a long, long time…
Shelly called it. Someone was dead!! I never expected to live in Missouri, or in an apartment, again. All that changed in 2011. There are lots of things to like about apartment living…i don’t have to mow grass, I just pick up the phone if something is broken or isn’t working, there is coffee and…