"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Family, Photo entries on Jan 21st, 2010
I’m gonna be schmoopy for just a minute. I enjoy the heck out of Joel’s and my relationship – he just tickles me eight shades of pink and I wanted to share a couple of fairly awesome pictures of my feller: Joel is imitating a sea-gull in Santa Cruz – this is the day before […]
Posted in Garden, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jan 16th, 2010
The day I took my favorite photo to date was a charmed day – some days are. There’s no predicting which ordinary day will turn out to be extraordinary, but that was one of those days when the insects, zinnias, and I were somehow operating in perfect harmony. I’d gone out around midday on a […]
Posted in Adventures, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Jan 2nd, 2010
So proclaimed Max, with perhaps a touch of pride. The past week’s snow made for super-sweet ski-biking, and last night a bunch of us dragged our contraptions out to Museum Hill and did what cabin-fevered mid-westerners do best…dumb things! The big, goofy red-and-yellow rig is Joel’s latest creation. Battered and weatherbeaten, “The Goat” is one […]
Posted in biking, Hercules, huffy, Other Bike Stuff, Photo entries on Dec 31st, 2009
A few years ago, I acquired this old English 3-speed from Brian Chasm. I think I gave him some homebrew for it. He’d picked it up at a yard sale, but for whatever reason he and Hercules didn’t ultimately get along. He said he’d just as soon as I had Hercules so long as I […]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Dec 13th, 2009
Too bad if you didn’t. For a bit of context. I don’t know why, but when I lay on my stomach to read, Griswald seems to think that it is a great idea to curl up on my butt. I suppose it is a warm, soft cushion, and cats are magnetically drawn to anything that […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Photo entries on Dec 9th, 2009
Joel redid our closet in the bedroom: Before (CROWDED) Also, I have the sartorial aesthetic of a 1970s sofa. after (much less cram-packed, easier to see what I have to wear) Joel’s side (and the shelves for sweaters & shoes in the middle) Another view of Joel’s side of the closet. This isn’t the first […]
Posted in Photo entries, Sewing on Dec 1st, 2009
I’ve been enjoying the little short-sleeved, girly-girl jackets since they came in a few years ago. I even succumbed to the madness during one of my Junior League sprees and bought this little number two years ago: (please excuse the quality of both the photo and facial expression!) I’d had this cute quasi-western, 1970s-esqe jacket […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 15th, 2009
Half of a grocery cart, laden with a passenger, being towed behind a bicycle makes a pretty distinctive sound. A grinding, rattling, metallic rumble, sometimes accented with whoops, yelps, shrieks, and cursing. Like this, basically. We’d convened on Friday night as planned in Korruption, a fine and choice dive bar in the West Bottoms. It’s […]
Posted in Adventures, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Family, Party, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Nov 6th, 2009
I said something recently about writing more frequently…and once again I did a lot of fun stuff, didn’t write about it, built up a backlog of postable material, got overwhelmed, and will be babbling forth a disjointed and photo-heavy entry…AGAIN. So. We went to Nebraska this past weekend-ish. We left town Halloween night, did a […]
Posted in Photo entries, Ruby the Dog, Super-Short Entries on Sep 20th, 2009
This picture of Ruby and Bagheera continues to amuse me. B-dawg has gotten so HUGE. He’s got to be around 110lb at this point and his back is level with my hip. He’s still got that silly, merry puppy personality. Ruby’s always beside herself with doggish glee when I borrow Bagheera for a playdate. 8-31-09 […]