Aug 14th
The not-so great escape featuring Marble
During the little storm last night (and while E and I were at dinner), Marble got down from the 3rd floor balcony
Author: Elle
Jul 26th
Our Little Garden
Our little garden is doing quite well considering the lateness of the season. We have on pepper, a dozen buds, and two tomato flowers!
Jul 11th
Cat Proof Gardening
T6EWUKYJKQWV — I’ve been wanting fresh vine-ripened tomatoes all year. But, even if we grew “patio tomatoes” (hat tip to our friend Pam who told me these exist!), Marble would get into them and make a mess. le sigh. E, or Genius from this point forward, had the perfect idea. We have a Romeo & […]
Jun 27th
Protected: Intentions That Are Cruel
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Jun 27th
Anger Management
I spent far too much time yesterday with a potential client whom I’ll call Melon. She’s about to leave town, but wanted immediate WordPress training (which takes 2-3 hours. I had already been warned she was on the 3-hour side of things. Again, she’s melon-like.). Of course, she wanted all of this in an hour. […]
Jun 15th
RIP Frank M O’Brien
Thursday at ~12noon, my mom called to tell me: “they have taken away all the fluids” from Grandaddy. What? They took away the fluids and you know the body just can’t survive very long without liquids. I’m sorry. So….Grandaddy’s in the hospital? Yes. And you didn’t think it was important to call and tell me? […]
Jun 12th
Cedric the Entertainer
Harry: So, what are we going to order? Sally: Well, I’m going to start with the grilled ridichio. Harry: Jess, Sally is a great orderer….even the chef didn’t know how good it could be. Jess: I think restaurants have become to important. Marie: Oh, I agree. Restaurants are to people in the 80s what theater […]
Jun 6th
Awesome Austin
A Twitter friend (and fellow photographer) will be vacationing in Lago Vista this summer and wanted a list of places to eat and wanted to know what Sandra Bullock owns. @LH: @AsYouWish Japanese, American, TexMex, BBQ. Something different that no other cities would have. &little unique shops too if you don’t mind. So, armed with […]
Apr 23rd
jcpenney
While my dear sweet great aunt worked most of my life for JCPenney, I hadn’t given it much thought for shopping for myself. Growing up in a small town, it was one of the few shopping options. As a young woman, everything was too “old” looking and didn’t fit me right, anyway. My grandmother still […]
Apr 17th
Day 53 of #FleaFest2012
It’s day 54 since the fleas in our apartment were treated Today, I caught ten in the homemade flea trap. I’ve grown weary of taking the vacuum canister to the trash dumpster on a daily basis. Today, after several days of similar, seeing that all the vacuumed fleas were dead–I dropped the minimal dust (when […]