by Mir | May 13, 2008 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Greetings from the land of Unplanned-For Expenses, otherwise known simply as Home Ownership. Why, we’d noticed the deck seemed to be settling a little, last year, when we moved in, and this spring we could no longer ignore that the gazebo seems a bit…...
by Mir | May 12, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Wow, do you people have strong feelings about planting mint. SHEESH. Maybe I REALLY REALLY LIKE mint. Maybe the mint is in containers in the planter. Maybe it is hilarious to me that I am all “Hooray! I made an herb garden finally!” and you all commence...
by Mir | May 10, 2008 | What do I do all day?
Okay, so, the box is too wide to get a very good picture of it, but I was busy little beaver today. Left to right, I’ve now got rosemary, banana peppers, flat-leaf parsley, two kinds of thyme, lemon basil, regular basil, lemon verbena, chocolate mint, and...
by Mir | May 9, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So yesterday we had this big end-of-season soccer thing for, I dunno, six hours? Three days? A LONG TIME, is what I’m saying. It was a SOCCER EXTRAVAGANZA! With extra soccer! And hotdogs! And staying out entirely too late on a school night. And after...
by Mir | May 8, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Last summer, when we moved here, the drought was severe and our little neighborhood pond mostly a half-hearted mud puddle. It smelled of baked earth and rotting plants and after a visit or two to sort of scope out the area, we didn’t go back again. Why would we?...
