February 27, 2010 – 12:32 pm
My eldest granddaughter turns 18 on Feb 29th. There not being a Feb 29 this year, we observe her b-day near the end of the month.
This is no longer the little girl I took for her first ride on the merry-go-round1, or who helped Great Grandma Nelson “rearrange” her cupboards, or who, wearing a cute [...]
February 13, 2010 – 11:35 am
Does giving up watching the NASCAR Truck Race so one’s spouse can watch the Olympic opening ceremony count?1
If so, then I am truly a great catch. I suppose I still have to get a card and flowers. As though the Daytona 500 on Valentine’s Day isn’t enough.
-k-
UPDATE: The Truck race rained out, and [...]
January 5, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB [...]
December 20, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I’m cold, wet, and tired. Two hours on the handle of a snow shovel is not my idea of fun. The dig, traipse across the street, dump, repeat ritual behind the aught-one Saturn, combined with some Midwest-learned knowledge of “rocking” a car broke it free, and I was able to head around the corner [...]
December 19, 2009 – 8:09 pm
As in still snowing, and clear up to your ass.
Lucky me, I get to scoop a path across the deck seen in the picture a few posts back. The satellite dish is atop the shed; we’ve lost the signal. Being snowbound and teevee-less is an intolerable combination. A light brooming off of the dish should [...]
December 19, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Your forbearance is humbly requested, while I post yet another snow photo. This is a view out tbbs WorldHQ’s front door, which reveals my covered ‘01 Saturn. We think MLB’s ‘08 is under the pile mid-photo, and our neighbor’s VW is visible on the right.
There’s evidence there that a neighboorhood Good Samaritan, who presumably is [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:21 pm
When life sends you snow, you blog about it. With pictures. This one reveals our outside Sirius Satellite Radio antenna. This is needed to get any kind of reliable signal at all; here in the underbelly of our three-level townhouse, the indoor antenna just doesn’t cut it.
I think it looks like a little Christmas tree. [...]
December 19, 2009 – 1:55 pm
The view of the deck, taken just a few minutes ago. That white conical device is our Brinkmann Smoker, under a fresh blanket of the white stuff. To the right is the black Weber Kettle grill, sporting the latest in white hattery. We’re expecting 10-18″ before this storm moves on up the coast, and we’re [...]
November 26, 2009 – 11:33 am
The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement.
–Les Nessman
Maybe that’s what happens in Cincinnati; here in NoVA, our turkey is atop a bunch of charcoal and hickory chunks; the smoke wafts upward towards the cold, cloudy, gray sky, and blends in nicely.
Not exactly Over the River and Through the Woods, but good [...]
November 7, 2009 – 12:58 am
MLB’s ficus tree, which(whom?) she has named George, is now in his winter quarters here at tbbsWorldHQ.
As she likes to say, “He called my name” when she bought him at Long’s or Lucky’s during our exile period in California in the 1980’s. And George lives!
So, it’s now my job to make George comfortable, starting [...]
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