Category: daily drivel
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blink
And, in the blink of an eye, the weekend was over. For the first time in months we slept in late Saturday morning – didn’t get out of bed until almost eight o’clock! What a couple of hedonists we can be! After we’d cleared the cobwebs from our heads with a couple cups of coffee,… Read.
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fractional
I went to the store to buy PVC pipe, strap hangers and wall anchors, and I’m going to tell you all about it because I can’t sleep and I have to do something quiet as I while the hours away until morning or until I can fall asleep, whichever comes first. Buying the pipe was… Read.
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beer
The frame is finished, the formica countertop is tightly screwed down, and half the backboard is in place. It’s starting to look as if this is really going to happen. I didn’t do much to the bench tonight, just enough to say I’m still working on it. I added railings between the legs of the… Read.
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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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