Friday, December 30th
Lorena
Nommy delicious goodness is nommy and delicious. Pasta, spinach, and mushrooms. Mix with garlic, olive oil, and pepper. Eat heartily. We had dinner with the fam’ last night – Aunt…
2011
Thursday, December 29th
Wednesday I fired the kiln; I was able to open it right up yesterday morning and everything fired fine. Aren’t those soup mugs, with the little holder for crackers, the…
Monday, December 26th
All day yesterday I kept thinking it was Sunday. Does anyone else do that on holidays? Bonus Sunday! Yay! On Christmas Day when we came back home to let the…
And so this is Christmas
I guess I did not misbehave as much as I thought this year, because Santa was very good to me! I got books and yarn and a pony and —…
Song of the Week: Fairytale of New York
And the bells were ringing out, for Christmas Day.
Friday, December 23rd
I spent a good portion of the day yesterday unplugged, at a friend’s house, knitting and drinking champagne and fruit juice, a basket of homemade cranberry muffins to nom upon…
Thursday, December 22nd (“It is what it is”)
Can you believe my pepper plants are still producing? It’s the ass end of December, and my peppers are still all, “JULY, BITCHES!” I think that’s a sign. An allegory,…
Wednesday, December 21st
I had a post written about yesterday, but I’m going to take G-ma’s advice and run with “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
Monday, December 19th
Last night we picked up Unca Joe at the airport; Aunt Gay is – hopefully – flying in on Wednesday with Rusty. There’s been problem after problem getting him transferred,…
Sunday, December 18th
Yesterday would have been my daddy’s 70th birthday. I think he would have been both horrified and tickled at turning The Big Seven-Zero. Birthdays that ended in zeros always freaked…
Saturday, December 17th
Yesterday during the day I got a lot of work done — dogs waking me up at 2 in the morning meant that my work day was almost over by…