Well, the peace treaty lasted until about 9:15 this morning. Twelve weeks to go! So, say some yo-yo slices his left thumb open with a tomato knife, and it bleeds a lot, but 20 minutes of pressure stops it, and the cut is clean enough to fit back together perfectly (no apparent kerf, ha ha), … Read more
Some days, your blog writes itself. I came home to discover this on the linen closet door, between the boys’ rooms: They were all already gone to Vacation Bible School when I arrived, so I don’t yet know what precipitated this. I hope it wasn’t too bad. VBS week is a somewhat draining experience for … Read more
The omnipresent, eerie, plausibly-extraterrestrial-sounding racket at work is finally subsiding a bit. (I mean the 13-year cicadas. What did you think I meant?) I seriously considered rounding up and cooking some of them. Recipes aren’t hard to find. I mean, I was going to do it just as a curiosity, but hell, what if cicadas … Read more