Deoderant Toilet paper and facsimiles thereof (tissues, napkins, paper towels and even baby wipes will save your ass – bad pun – but if you’re out of all of ’em, you’re sunk) Diapers, which is why you should always have cloth ones around the house, even if you don’t use ’em Laundry detergent. Believe me,…
Author: VickyTH
athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *
Why I like girl dogs
After slaughtering and hog-tying the Christmas tree on Saturday, we stuck it in a barrell of water until we had blasted a spot in the house in which it could stand. Sunday, we brought the tree into the house, lopped off another section of trunk and plunked it into a stand full of water. Happy…
Printing photos
I printed some of our digital photos for the first time a couple of days ago. One of the pitfalls of digital photography is that you have to take an extra step to get physical printouts. I’m not rich or patient enough to muck around with printing them at home. I’d need better technology and…
What we do in our house for Christmas
Because I have been asked, both accusatorily and timorously both by people who mean well and those who are downright nosy, whether we celebrate Christmas, here it is: yes, we do Christmas. The trick comes in identifying how we define the Christmas that we celebrate and how we distinguish it from the meanings that others…
Shadows of the past…
Every so often, I do something odd that reminds me of my vestigal New Brunswick habits. Like just now. I walked into the bathroom, emptied my coffee into the sink and rinsed out my mug. Normal people use the kitchen for such activities. When we lived in New Brunswick, we didn’t have a kitchen. We…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 