The failings of bread machines…

I love our bread machine. Less than a minute’s worth of work and we can have fresh whole wheat or multigrain bread for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a house that smells like someone slaved to bake. Typically we have set the machine up in the evening, timing it so that the bread would finish…

Mr. Romance

We are not one of the couples that go all-out for Valentine’s Day. There is no chocolate. We don’t go out to dinner. No presents, pink or and fluff of any sort. We’re just not that sort of people. Romance for us is a walk together or simply time spent talking. Those are the vitamins…

Marital Exchange of the Day

Me: Why does no one wake you at four a.m. and make you read stories in foreign languages? John: Huh? What did she want? Me: Tim le chat. John: Did you read it to her? Me: Yuh. John: Where’re your glasses? Me: Night-table. Read it with my eyes shut. Gonna teach you tomorrow.

Election Eve comment

Just before we fell asleep, the following conversation transpired: Me: You going to stay up for the election results? John: When do they start? Me: 10 EST, so 11:30 here. John: Nope. Me staying up won’t changed anything, anyway. Me: True, and the full results will be there in the morning. John: Yeah, it’ll be…

Dear husband,…

…. what on earth would prompt you to stash one of the handsets for the portable phone IN THE DEEP FREEZER? Took me half an hour of incessant pager-beeping to find it. Works fine, btw….