Happy Friday, which is National Classy Day (I try), National Bootlegger’s Day (the opposite of classy) and the Friday before a three day weekend. I had my second Shingles vaccine today and I’m hoping it goes a bit easier than…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 3
A day in the life of working from home
5:15pm – WM’s alarm goes off. He takes Murphy with him to feed and let him out. They’ll come back upstairs around 5:45 to for WM to get ready. 6:20am: WM leaves for work and shuts the door to the…
Friday 5: On (a different) deck
Happy Friday, which is National Houseplant Appreciation Day (we do and we have the fungal gnats to prove it), and National Save the Eagles Day (I thought we did that already but you do you). It’s also the Friday marking…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 2
Friday 5 on a Saturday: On Deck
Happy Saturday, which is also National Spaghetti Day (every day is spaghetti day in my book) and National Trivia Day (I approve!) and also it’s cold January day with a snowstorm possibly on the horizon for Monday. Back in the…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 1
Fifty-two Wednesdays in 2024, with words
I published 52 Wordless Wednesday posts this year. Three of them were actually published on Thursday with a sneaky backdate to make them look like they were on time. Compiling them into one photo and writing captions was one of…
Happy 22nd birthday, blog!
Twenty-two years ago today I used Blogger to add a blogging section to my website*. The first post was truly profound. When I exported from Blogger, multiple posts on one day came over alphabetically instead of chronologically so even though…
The Cookies of 2024
I wrote a few weeks ago that I wasn’t feeling my usual urge to bake cookies this year. Since we didn’t have the cookie exchange at work (no office to bring cookies to) and we’re pretty much estranged from the…
Friday 5: Wrapped, part 4
Happy Friday, which is National Fruitcake Day (I’m neutral, but I’ve never really had a homemade one. Maybe next year I’ll make one? and day two of what House Russell calls Sloth Week. It’s the week between Christmas and New…
