We all went out to Cape Spear on Sunday in the hopes that the sky would clear (it didn't) and it would become sunny and blue (it wasn't). Despite that, we managed to have a fun time. The swell on the ocean was tremendous. Apparently we're to get a pile of snow tonight (whose dumb…
Category: Household
Reruns: Damned spiders
Photo Credit: Heather Patey I actually like spiders, or used to. At the very least, I have nothing against them. Witness the one humongous critter still living in my kitchen window that started as a small itsy thing in that same spot last summer. (Not pictured at right. It turns out that I don’t actually…
Irrationally bad mood
I’ve been feeling vague as regards work for the last week or so and it has been a truly annoying experience. Actually, I’ve been feeling dissatisfied in general and it frustrates me which, in turn, doesn’t help. It’s not helping that it feels like it should be Thursday, while in reality it’s only Tuesday. I’ve…
“Look Marge, we caught another one!”
Photo credit: From iron wrought, originally uploaded by John_TH. You know those jokes where an old couple does something like set up a phoney road sign and watch for tourists who fall prey to their misguiding ploys. One of them always calls out to the other, “Look, Soandso, we caught another one!” (In particular, I…
Photo hunting again….
One of the things that John and I loved doing in the Days Before Katherine was photo taking together. We’d drag our equipment around from place to place, shooting whatever caught our fancy. Film and developing got to be expensive and time became a highly-desireable, yet rarely-present, commodity after Katherine’s birth, so we fell out…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 