One of the problems — and trust me, there are very few — with being retired is when to take a “day off.” When I worked. that was evident. Whatever day(s) you weren’t scheduled to work, is your day off. I used to run errands on the way home on Friday [...]
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A Day
Posted in home on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rainy Mondays
Posted in home, life on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I used to hate rainy Monday mornings. I was trying to get geared up for a new school week and the buses were always late and the kids hyper because three drops of rain hit them at the edge of the sheltered walkway, but, of course, their feet were wet because they wore sandals, [...]
Water – Water
Posted in home on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is hurricane season. We get updates on the news occasionally to keep emergency supplies handy — water, batteries, meds, first-aid kit, non-perishable food, etc. Well — there are more reasons than that to be prepared.
We woke up last week to no water. None. Nary a drop. I knew I’d paid the bill, so that [...]
Soon – A New Mrs Flusher
Posted in home on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we finally decided to bite the bullet and to connect the not-functioning-very-well septic tank/system to the city sewer system. It took a trip to the city utilities office and a hefty fee to a week or more of trying to get businesses to come out and give us an estimate (a Herculean [...]
Mrs. Flusher
Posted in home, names on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I used to hate it when someone called me that — a telephone solictiation person or an address on an envelope. I told the former that no one by that name lived here. The latter got tossed in the trash.
I got very careful about spelling my name on the phone with someone who didn’t know [...]
A Good Friday
Posted in Catholicsm, home on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It rained last night, and blew, and hailed. In our pine forest that can be a cause for alarm. The good news with our recent heavy rains is that the drought is over; however, the bad news is that our septic system gets easily overwhelmed now. So, between worry about trees and [...]
New Year
Posted in Christmas, home on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany which marks the end of the Christmas season for the Church. I leave the nativity scene up on the mantel until then. So down it comes tomorrow. Bruce even asked if I wanted to leave it up permanently. I thought about it for five [...]
Three Pillowcases to the Wind
Posted in home, travel on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not fussy about very many things, but I’m real fussy about the linens on the bed. The pillowcases are ironed and, usually, the sheets are hung on the line to dry in the wind and sun. One of the advantages of living in the sunny South is that most of the time, [...]
Read On
Posted in books, home, life on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Occasionally I have spells where I want to curl up on the sofa with a huge cup of endless tea, a box of chocolate bonbons, and read, read, read. Forget the laundry, the housework, ignore the dust, pick up only the large pieces of dirt on the carpet, order in delivery food and forget [...]
Good for the Soul
Posted in books, home, life, teaching on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It started with the book shelves in the study, moved on to the book shelves in the back hallway, into the back bedroom and returned to the study in the file cabinets. It was a purge. Thin ‘em out, toss ‘em out, clean ‘em out!
We whittled down the whole shelf of Holy Bibles [...]
