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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Cactus Garlic Salsa For Breakfast

About five years ago, I think, I posted the following. It's not dated and it's one of my blogs I deleted when Bill made an issue of not liking me writing about him on the Internet. I'm posting it again because it is another autumn--my favorite time of year, and I won't tell him I mentioned him to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

To Sympathize With Spiders

Actually, I didn't set the place on fire. Instead, I sprayed my whole bedroom with Raid House & Garden - indoor/outdoor, which has a picture of a spider on it along with roaches, waterbugs, crickets, silverfish, sowbugs, earwigs, caterpillars, centipedes, millipedes, ticks, boxelder bugs, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Powder Your Arms

"Makeup is such a private affair...Not something to share. Knowing who you are, that's the thing" "And who am I?" ~ Jack Higgins, The Killing Ground Dad was so strict with his six daughters. When we were growing up, he would not let us buy or wear red clothing. Somehow he associated red clothing... Sign in to see full entry.

Oct Pumpkin Porch

If you don't have a pumpkin patch, the next best thing is a pumpkin porch. There's enough to go all the way around, and then some. Son grew them in his yard. They are just about the only thing besides peaches and chives that survived the long, hot, dry summer. Now I have to figure out something to... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Take A Gekko At The Doo Doo

Cleaning bird doo doo off my car, and off my deck are not really my favorite activities, but now and then it has to be done. That's what I was doing today--scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing, my deck rails with a stiff brush and a bucket of hot sudsy water laced with apple-blossom-scented Dawn. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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