1. My 7-year-old grandson Liam asks: Why is it cooler in the mountains? I thought it would be warmer because it’s closer to the sun. 2. Three wishes granted or three strikes you’re out? 3. Past Blog Posts with “Ball” in the titles: On the Ball, Have a Ball, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, The […]
1. This is not a yard ornament. Stop Thief! 2. Something funny involving a bunny HERE. 3. Cannibals are scarier than zombies because they do or have actually existed. 4. I’m so tempted to hit the Publish button on an empty blog post and then say, “I can’t remember what I was going to say […]
1. This is my 653rd Thirteen Thursday. For someone who is not very disciplined or big on practices, it’s been quite a practice. 2. I like that whirl rhymes with twirl and swirl and blur rhymes with whir and stir. 3. I got my first humorous old person card on my birthday last week. 4. THIS […]
1. We passed by the Abbey Road Restaurant while in Virginia Beach this weekend and passed the place in Bethany Beach where the shop called Octupus’s Garden used to be. 2. My favorite Beatles’s line is probably “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.” I once had a sign made saying that and it hung […]
1. This week’s shopping list literally started with “fizzy and “izze.” 2. Fizzy is packets for Emergen-C powder and Izze is a brand of juice soda that I like. 3. Someone at the weekend’s Mayfaire wanted to sell me a beer cozy. “I’m the type of person who gardens with my hands without gloves. I’m […]
1. Yesterday, I spent the day with a cardinal named Clark Gable. 2. You know I’ve been staying home too long when I start naming the birds at the feeder. I’ve been calling the finches “the golden girls” even though I know the yellow ones are males. 3. I should be relearning my French for […]
1. Six days after my laparoscopic surgery, I put on my bra for the first time. 2. Three days later, I wore lipstick. 3. Watching the birds at the feeder has been an everyday part of my recovery. I cried when I wrote a post about having told my family members in the past that […]
1. A couple of days after having laparoscopic surgery to remove a 12-centimeter benign cyst on my liver, my grandsons came to visit. I filled up a balloon with water to show them how big the removed cyst was. After we looked at, we threw it out a second story window and watched it break […]
1. “Sun is blue like water and water is yellow. Clouds are white, so clouds are black.” – 7-year-old Liam drawing a “reverse” picture after seeing the art of M.C. Escher. 2. Last night I dreamt that I went too far out in a boat with my grandsons on board. We eventually found land, but […]
1. I went for most of the day on Easter before I realized it was also April Fool’s, which made the whole day feel like a joke. 2. It all started with the memory of the Easter bonnets that we wore as kids and turned into a walk to Joe’s and my favorite view. We […]
1. 12” of snow and no power on Sunday, but you don’t need generator to do THIS. 2. I’m reading Rod Stewart’s memoir. He has a whole chapter on his spikey hair. “It’s what I have in common with the Queen: both of us have had more or less the same hairstyle for the last […]
1. Over the weekend, we had brunch with some visiting family members at The Parkway Grille. It was so good and we ate so much that someone in the group called it “blinner,” meaning a combination of breakfast, lunch and dinner. 2. Meanwhile, with all the snow we’ve had so far this March, my friend […]
