Why Flowers Beat Snowdrifts
This won’t come as a shock to anyone who knows me, but I love spring. To paraphrase some action movie or other: Winter is the disease, and spring is the cure. Summer is that […]
Tag: Summer
Ford … Falcon?
I have a feeling you wouldn’t want to be in this car when the driver’s dodging potholes. Guess I should have waited to post this until May Fourth … but I’ve been holding on to […]
Pulling The Horse Muscle, or Break In the Saddle Again
“Would you like to go on a trail ride?” my wife asked in August. (Yeah, I know. It’s taken me this long to recover from the emotional trauma enough to write about it.) Do you […]
Maybe for vacation we should book a hospital room
Right after Labor Day we’ll be on “vacation”. The quotes are because our vacations in recent years have been of the kind people need a vacation to recover from. I do wish I could go […]
Marketing Your Dog
In full-throated summer, colorful, chaotic farmers markets offer a hot weather oasis where you can shop for locally produced, organically grown corn while your dog is torn apart by vicious, unsupervised hellhounds. While such incidents […]
Can turnip upstage overrated pumpkin?
In case you are in denial about the approach of autumn or in a coma, it’s time to wake up and smell the pumpkins. These orange egomaniacs are encroaching on summer like Christmas usurps Halloween, […]
It Can’t Be Labor Day… I Have to Go Swimming!
During the summer, my husband Jon and I go to our local swim club on Sunday mornings to do some laps. We aim for 10:30, when the gates open. That guarantees we won’t have to […]
Back to school means no more fun
Summer has come to an end, which means the fun is over. They were there for good times in the mornings on days I went to work late, and they were there when I got […]
Germs or Motes? Waiting for the Frost
I’ve been feeling crappy the last several days: either an oncoming summer cold or a bad allergy attack (and/or lack of sleep This is a third shift worker’s go-to explanation for everything). Considering all the […]