Just sitting here in a rather blue mood listening to Patsy Cline sing her heart out. No one could croon a sad tune better than she could.
For if still loving you means I’m weak, then I’m weak,
For I still fall apart when we speak or we mee,t
If the life that we knew won’t bother you,
Darling [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Patsy Cline — arguably the best
Posted in life, etcetera on January 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
O.B.E. — a definition
Posted in life, etcetera on January 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you do a search for a definition of the acronym “O.B.E.”, you get lots of definitions: Order of the British Empire, Office of Business Economics, On-board Equipment, Out of Body Experience, Overcome (or Overtaken) By Events, Open Book Estimate, Online Booking Engine, Over Bloody Eighty (I sort of like that one) and several others.
We hear that [...]
Our Downstairs Neighbors
Posted in Wildlife on January 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Back in August, as you may recall, we had to have some plumbing work done which entailed the plumbers getting under our house. Those boys did not put things back they way they found them, and I did not notice that they had left the cover off our crawl space access for well over a week. Then [...]
Planting trees and other garden chores
Posted in garden on January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I haven’t really talked about the stroll garden lately. I want to assure you all that it has not been languishing on the back burner.
About a week ago Jim and I got really busy and laid out cardboard and mulch along the west fence to delineate the beds that will go there. I have clematis [...]
Moving furniture
Posted in Health, dogs, life, etcetera on January 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Ever since we got the new computer desk, which is truly a wonderful thing (don’t get me wrong), I have missed my big Army surplus solid oak officer’s desk.
We moved it into the back bedroom about a year ago, our library cum guest room. It takes up a lot of floor space in there. The [...]
