Happy Friday! I’m blogging in between moving the lawn sprinkler around, because that is the person I’ve become. I’m also trying to keep my mind off of the stitches in my gum from yesterday’s third-to-last dental implant step. This is…
Archives for April 2017
Circle of Life
Here I am on “puppy leave” which is actually a bunch of my vacation days that I’ve been accruing year to year. Murphy isn’t ready for workday crating (aka bathroom confinement) just yet. He’s working through some GI issues. Hopefully…
Meet Murphy
This is Murphy Maximus Russell, Squire Thumpus of Angry Man Farm. You can call him Murphy. He comes to us months before we were planning to get a dog. Because we make fantastic decisions. His dubious origin story begins in…
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Middle-aged lady edition
Two years ago, I went to a fertility doctor (diagnosis: unexplained infertility well DUH!) and that was the beginning of a long series of appointments and tests. As those appointments began to wind down, I broke my tooth. Which also…
back on Bloglovin’
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The resurrection of the blog continues…
Currently, mid-April edition
Eating pounds of Easter bread that I baked this weekend. I am just a load of carbs, and I didn’t even have any Easter candy. Waiting for our grass out front to grow. We seeded it 10 hours ago and…
Show us your books: April 2017
During the months that I wasn’t blogging but thinking about what I would do once I relaunched the blog, I realized that I miss the blogging community at large. Most of the people I used to follow and comment on…
March planner pages
I’m still at it with my paper planners. I ordered from Paper Source again, but this time I got the 12 month one instead of the 18 month one. Strictly because it’s lighter to carry around with me. It was…
Friday 5: Gimme one reason
Random alley taken from my work shuttle. Only tangentially related to this post.[/caption]Oh, sweet, glorious weekend. By the time I got home from work yesterday I was calling myself Old Woman Russell. I hit the sofa with my Surface, opened…
Ollie update
Ollie has had a rough time of it. He keenly felt Max’s loss, and for a few months he was just … sad. Then he had 2 bad ear infections about 6 weeks apart. Ear infections are common with spaniels…
20
Today would have been my 20th wedding anniversary. BvP texted me shortly after Max’s passing last summer and he’s doing very well. Even though we’re apart longer than we were together, I can’t ignore the date. Twenty years was a…
Candle centerpieces
Two years ago, a friend of mine shared a Christmas centerpiece on Facebook. It was comprised of a battery-operated pillar candle in a glass jar surrounded by peppermint candies. I pinned it here. While I couldn’t find green peppermints, I…