Month: October 2011
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bulb
While I was unloading dishes from the wash machine yesterday morning and so luckily had my back to the room, one of the light bulbs in the dining room light fixture went ka-POW! I jumped about a foot in the air. The pieces were still settling when I hit the ground. The fixture is one… Read.
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dogs
I realized the Nazis were coming for us when their dogs emerged from the edge of the woods. There were three of them, bone-thin, long-haired frou-frou dogs, the kind that look like eels on stilts, and they snaked their way towards us with a practiced nonchalance, as if they weren’t the scariest things on earth… Read.
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crossed
The track gang has earned their keep this weekend. This was the scene this afternoon at the crossing on the low end of the Lost Continent Railway. With the last of the rails laid through the crossover, the return loop was completed at about three-thirty and the chief engineer, standing on the roof of the… Read.
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blister
It has been a day. Everything was fine to start with. Morning coffee with the morning news, one sucked, the other didn’t. While B got ready to go to the farmer’s market, I threw a load of dirty clothes into the wash machine and cranked it up, then went about the rest of my morning… Read.
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