Happy Friday, which is also National Road Trip Day, National Cooler Day, and MOST importantly, the 16th anniversary of WM packing up his Jeep and driving from Michigan to my Dee-luxe Apartment in the Sky to start our lives together after a scant long-distance internet relationship. In hindsight, we were both very stupid and risky but it worked out so we try not to dwell on how ridiculous it was. It's been a delightful week off. I had my hair done, I worked on some projects around the house, ...
May 2019
(subtitle: where the hell have you been?) Hi there! Heck of a month, eh? I can't quite explain WHY I haven't been blogging, I just haven't. Things have been great though! See? Nephew A's 5th birthday party was at a local farm, which offered stunning views... Mom and I went to the Phillies annual Mother's Day tribute game. It was in the 50s with a cold, cold rain. The Phils won and neither of us caught pneumonia though so all's well that ends well. After years being buried in ...
Friday 5: Break of Day
Oh happy happy day! It's Memorial Day weekend. This means two amazing things: 1) Eleven Memorial Day weekends ago, WM took a 12 hour ride from Michigan with a jeep full of stuff to move int with me at the Dee-luxe Apartment in the Sky. Eleven! We both took a heck of a risk and it has paid off in spades. 2) Summer! My favorite season yawns ahead of me with the promise of warm sunshine and grilled corn. Today Mom and I took a trip to Margate and plopped on the beach for a few hours. We ...
Memorial Day weekend wrap-up
Happy Memorial Day, which is a day we set aside to honor those lost in military service to our country but instead everyone posts pictures of their living veteran relatives or their dead relatives who were veterans. It makes my eyeball twitch when people put up the "REMEMBER WHAT THIS DAY IS REALLY ABOUT YOU BBQ-ING INFIDEL" memes and then say "Here's a pic of grandpappy who is now 101 and fought in WWII." No maybe YOU should remember what this day is about. I'll hold your corn on the cob. And ...
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, ...
Memorial Day
It is Memorial Day, it is rainy, and I am sick. At first I was bummed. Having a cold (which developed into a cough almost immediately) is a real inconvenience. But then I realized that the cough I had from last August to January disappeared without me taking notice. And by far, I'm much healthier than most. So I'll put the complaining behind me.I'm reading a book that is much more fascinating than you'd ever imagine by the title: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. I bought ...
