We have been living in Michigan just over a year, and these past couple months have been even more of an adventure because we are seeing all the shit that goes on with our yard that the previous owner kept cleaned up so we were totally unaware. Like these mounds of weird strings of seeds…

When we first moved back to Michigan, I got my dear husband hooked on Diet Vernors.  For those few uninitiated out there – Vernors is Michigan’s version of ginger ale.  It’s delicious and the diet version is almost indistinguishable from regular. Recently, I got a wild hair, and picked up some diet Faygo.  I wasn’t…

We have a pet bunny rabbit – almost. For some reason, one of the little fuzzy hoppers in our yard has become enamored with spending time on our front porch. How cute is that? (Warning, if you come to our house, don’t eat any brown jelly beans you find on our welcome mat.)

I am not terribly computer savvy.  I don’t stink at computers, but there is a shit-ton that I simply don’t know/understand. I am mostly okay with this, because 99% of what you need to know can be found on the internet. What you can’t find on the internet is how you, somehow, no longer have…

Much to my surprise, only recently, I learned that we had three chicks in our front-door-wreath nest.  Not two.  This makes me happy because I knew there had been three eggs.  I was afraid one egg either didn’t hatch or got tossed out of the nest. But no.  One was being very wily and keeping…

What do you do when it’s May/June? It’s kind of Spring. It’s kind of Summer. Hope you approve of my solution to my quandary. (Actually, I don’t care one way or the other, I just like it and it makes me giggle a little.)

I keep checking out nearby places as I slowly (but surely, and don’t call me Shirley) explore our neighborhood. The other day, I was on my way home from Golden Guild rehearsal, and I remembered that I needed some cream. Just cream. Our local supermarket doesn’t always have quart sized containers of cream, so I…

First, let me tell you that I am fine. Second, once you have had cancer, you are never “cancer-free”.  You can be in remission, and it may never raise its ugly head again, but cancer is the gift that never stops giving (or at least trying really, really hard). Today, I went for my first…

Yes, I know.  I’ve been MIA  – again.  You’d think you’d be used to this by now.  But retirement is kicking my ass.  Or rather the amount of stuff crammed onto my calendar since retirement is kicking my ass. Seems like I have stuff going on every fucking day! How did I ever have time…

While the weather here is experiencing more mood swings than I (and that is a high bar indeed), the birds are doing their birds and the bees thing.  (I have no information on what the bees may or may not be up to because I haven’t seen any; they seem to be sensibly avoiding the…