Tag: family

  • de-fence-strate

    de-fence-strate

    My Darling B has a garden in the back yard with a fence around it. As fences go, it’s pretty basic: a series of 4×4 posts set in the ground about four feet apart, with galvanized hardware cloth stapled to the outsides of the posts. The bottom edge of the hardware cloth is buried about Read.

  • What Adulthood Looks Like

    What Adulthood Looks Like

    Now that I’m over the hill (65 years old this year!), this is what gets me excited. I’m not even kidding. I’ve wanted to get rid of the old concrete laundry sink in the basement for years. For almost two decades, really. I’ve never liked that sink. It had always drained way too slowly, the Read.

  • jumbled

    jumbled

    Things are a bit of a mess here at our little red house. We were scheduled to take delivery of a washer-dryer set today, so I moved a lot of furniture around, took doors off hinges, disconnected the old clothes washer and dryer so they were ready to be hauled away. This left the living Read.

  • butch

    One more goofy old-time photo, and then I’ll let it go for a while. I have no idea who these guys are, they could be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for all I know. Now that I’ve said that, I kind of hope they are. I’m pretty sure they’re not, though. They’re just two Read.

  • mine

    Like the rest of the photos in the Great Big Photo Album of People Who Might Be Related To Me But I Don’t Know How, this one isn’t dated and there are no names or notes scribbled on the back. Still, I might actually know what’s going on here. My mother had an aunt everybody Read.

  • proposal

    From the Great Big Photograph Album of People Distantly Related to Me but I Don’t Know Who: I think they’re play-acting. There’s a lot of photos of people play-acting in the Great Big Photo Album Etc. Sometimes they’re obviously play-acting on a stage, but sometimes they’re standing around in a house, or on a back Read.

photo of the author and the author's best friend