Category: daily drivel
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eighties
It’s been supernaturally warm here. For more than two weeks we’ve been enjoying temps in the seventies, and last weekend we broke out our shorts and dared to bare our winter-whitened legs to the glare of the sun. And we bought a couple of Adirondack chairs so we could lounge on the patio while sipping… Read.
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lockout
Tim stopped by last night to call a locksmith after he locked himself out of his apartment. He stepped out onto his patio to get something and unthinkingly swept the patio door closed behind him, realizing as soon as he heard the click of the latch that he was not going to be getting back… Read.
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sprung
I changed out the storm windows for screens in the front door and windows this morning. The cats can’t decide whether to shit or go blind. Read.
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patio
As she was driving across town yesterday afternoon, making a mental list of all the things she would need from the store to make eggs Benedict for dinner that evening, My Darling B realized that dinner and this lovely day would be best enjoyed at the same time on a patio, and that’s how we… Read.
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blown
Nobody’s really sure what’s wrong with the Bonk. His right eyeball has a pupil blow open so wide you could literally drive a Mack truck through it, if it were a smallish Mack truck and you used “literally” to mean “figuratively.” Nobody knows why his pupil’s blown like that. The vet through it was neurological… Read.
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spring?
Everybody who’s out walking today is wearing short sleeves and most are in shorts. It’s the typical reaction to an unseasonably warm day in Wisconsin, but instead of “unseasonably warm” being in the high forties or low fifties, this afternoon we’ve got temps in the seventies! So instead of saying just “unseasonably warm,” I should… Read.
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in the eye of the beholder
“That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen,” B said to me this morning, while we were enjoying a delicious breakfast at Lazy Jane’s Cafe on Willy Street. “I’ve been looking at it all this time, and it just keeps getting uglier.” I turned around to see what she was looking at, a decorative… Read.
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correlation
About two weeks ago, I was chatting with a coworker about going to the doctor when she told me about the pain she had in her upper arm. It sounded just like the pain I had in my upper arm, I said. It’s probably a rotator cuff injury like mine, she said. A couple days… Read.
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bonk
The old Bonkity-bonk-bonk ain’t doing so well these days. A couple weeks ago he came down with what seemed to be an ordinary head cold, but when he couldn’t shake it, we took him to the vet. She gave him some low-grade antibiotics that seemed to help him shake the cold at first, but then… Read.
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pinched
I pinched a tendon in my rotator cuff. Not on purpose. I didn’t even know I had a tendon caught in my rotator cuff. If I did, I certainly wouldn’t have kept pinching it in there. That hurts. I found out about this when I visited a physical therapist yesterday morning and told him about… Read.
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