Wednesday WTF
Funny story. As I was going through the listing for this week’s column I was reminded of the imagery in the movie Carrie which is pretty intense. I am talking about the original movie with Sissy Spacek. Anyway, when I was done looking at the listing I took my dog out one last time before…
My family has always enjoyed Halloween. When my daughter was really young she insisted on dressing up as a different animal associated with Halloween. The vampire bat costume was easy to make but I still find feathers from when we made her owl costume. It was great but oy vey, all the feathers. It was…
In the Clint Eastwood classic, Magnum Force, Dirty Harry Callahan’s last line of the movie is, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well, that expression is never truer than when you are a homeowner, and the idea of “Hey, we can do this ourselves” creeps into your mind. When my husband and I bought…
True confession time, folks. I love yard art. More specifically, animal yard art. I have, roughly, four-and-a-half pieces of yard art in my front yard. There’s the four-foot-tall, multi-colored rooster named Rodriguez. There’s also Jerry the giraffe riding a tricycle. There’s a flower basket on the back of his tricycle. Then there’s Rainbow the peacock,…
Every family has their little rituals. One of mine is to keep our DVR at a healthy 65 percent. It never fails that when I hit that sweet spot, our daughter comes home from school and the available space plummets down to 5 percent for the length of her visit. It is one of the…
