Desperate times, moldy (delicious) measures.
The time comes in every household when there’s nothing to eat. Just now, right this minute, it came to the WideEyedHousehold. The Mini and I splashed home from the Bug Lab and the Dry Cleaner through...
View ArticleSweet Tibbit gets her money’s worth out of a jelly bean.
Hamish the Corgi and Miss Tibbit can’t stop thinking about jelly beans. I’m looking at Sweet Tibbit now and she’s laying on the window seat gazing into the middle distance. She seems vacuous,...
View ArticleChickens three ways.
Chickens. The WideEyedSpouse won’t let me have any. We have the space for a microflock and someone has to eat all of those extra worms in the worm bin. Which, if you recall, was also forbidden by the...
View ArticleThe dogs will not have the last peanut butter cup.
The vastiness of the cosmos has been replaced by wonderment at the intricacies of mammalian interiors around here lately. The WideEyedLaundry is full of gored up shirts and khakis. My mind, in moments...
View ArticleWhat happens when one of your top five take-out places gets a liquor license...
Nothing good and everything wonderful. Last weekend I was starving, STARVING after cleaning the house, doing the laundry, walking dogs, and visiting the car show. Sliding gracefully in and out of...
View ArticleThe meatballs are in the crockpot.
The outside world was a rude -6°F this morning. The dogs wasted no time out there during morning walkies. They failed utterly to enjoy the hard, crystal blue sky and sparkling snow. Fair enough. I am...
View ArticlePulled pork eight ways since Sunday
The WideEyedSpouse smoked a ten pound pork shoulder over the weekend. I mean that exactly. Over the weekend. It was a 16 hour process, not including the preparation of the rub, the annual smoker...
View ArticleRain Delay
We lost the Mini to car fever yesterday. The WideEyedSpouse struggled heroically for months. Yesterday he succumbed. Yesterday, a bright sunny day perfect for painting a century home, we spent in the...
View ArticleIndependence Day.
Thanks to the bold minds and brave signers of the Declaration of Independence, and their willingness to see it through we are here now: equal, free of abuses, repeated injuries, and usurpations from...
View ArticleThe pretentious saudade sandwich.
“How much bread do we have?” I pawed through the rumpled empty-ish but not quite bags of bread on the bottom shelf of the fridge. That’s the anti-mold area. “Four slices.” And that’s how it started....
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