I think that, what with the holidays during the fall and winter, we should be given an extra day off of work this time of year. One extra day before Thanksgiving, and one extra day before Christmas (or whatever your winter holiday of choice might be) – and the sole purpose of those extra days [...]
We have had rainstorms here before. There have been days since I started this job where we have stopped what we were doing to stare out the window as it pours from the sky in great sheets of water into the river below. But something about the rainstorm yesterday made me stop and stare more [...]
For the past few days I’ve come home from work and immediately gone into the back yard to stumble around in the dark and see if maybe, just maybe, anything had changed. This evening I finally got lucky.
Scattered around the perimeter of the yard, in the freshly de-weeded areas beyond the paths, are dozens [...]
For the past two years we’ve spent New Year’s Eve in the little theater in Davis, watching a play put on by the Davis Musical Theater Company, followed by mountains of mostly bland Chinese food. We suffer through the mostly bland Chinese food only because we know that after that is done, there will be [...]
It’s done. It’s finally done. Okay, it’s not exactly done since I still must purchase and attach a button to the neck, but technically, the knitting part of it is over, so humor me while I do a little happy dance. Done, done, done.
I chased my nephew around the house last week when they [...]
It’s been foggy and slightly damp all week so far, and when I was driving home a night or two ago, there were patches of frost and low-laying fog on the ground. Okay, so it’s not snow, but it’s the closest to a white Christmas we get around here. I’ll take what I can get.
It [...]
The best thing about the Thank God It’s Over party is that anyone who took part in Nanowrimo is welcome to come, whether they made the 50,000 level or not. Last night, after we’d finished with the cards and the lights and everything else, we headed off to Sacramento, through the rain, to join the [...]
Yesterday I got up and busied myself with feeding the cats and checking my email and reading the latest Holidailies entries. And then I woke up Richard and we swung by the bakery in town for coffee and pastries and he dropped me off at the church so I could get things set up for [...]
I nearly threw the envelope away, but then I realized what it was and opened it. Inside, a one page certificate. Our house has been approved for the state rebate. We have nine months in which to install our solar panels and qualify.
Oh yes. The solar panels. Oops.
Back in October, we had someone [...]
Last week we were all sitting around talking about what comfort means to us, and of course the discussion naturally drifted to food, and since this week’s theme for the class was Comfort, we decided we’d all meet an hour early and have a potluck dinner, with everyone bringing their own ‘comfort food’.
I had [...]
