Husbands who do any of the following while their wives are ill: take care of their daughters all weekend empty large quantities of compost into the compost heap despite swarms of wasps walk dogs rub their sick wives backs in the wee hours of the morning when the wives are racked with coughing spasms cook…
Category: family
Hearing things.
Yesterday evening, John dragged me out of the house to Heather and Bob’s for supper. I wasn’t particularly hungry, couldn’t taste anything (which was a real shame) and was miserably sick, but getting out was probably good for me on some level. Having been cooped up all day hacking up lungs, getting out and seeing…
Tricks of memory
My SIL Heather recently wrote about her memories of September 11, 2001. Her comments are quite understandably turned off because a recent bombardment by comment spammers, requiring her to shift server programs and we all know how much fun that could turn out to be. But anyway, the fact that she wrote something about the…
Laundry lesson, for the domestically challenged
For the education of certain parties who reside in this house. Please take careful note of the following common errors: The appropriate placement for discarded vestments and other articles of clothing is within said hamper. Also please note that leather belts, diapers, money and pocket knives should be removed from the clothing before the latter…
The perils of lobster
Recently we received a postcard from Natasha, aka Sarai the Mumbling Monkey. Actually, I should backtrack a little here and fill in a post that I kept meaning to write but didn’t. Natasha hails from the other side of the continent and, before heading to grad school, decided to venture as far east as she…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 