Mo’ Tango

6:45 on a Wednesday night, and we’re waiting for the tango teacher to show up for dinner (don’t ask), our weekly private lesson (ask me someday), and then off to the weekly Wednesday milonga, or tango social dance, at which we rather suck. But we’re better than we used to be. Husbando has glommed on [...]

Sitting

Been on the LimoLiner for the last 48 hours. Okay, only got on at 3:15 and it’s now 6:40, but it feels like forever. Forgot my own advice to always travel with a suitable reading companion and the so-called internet connection is like the old days — real old days — of dial-up, i.e., painfully [...]

Hamartia

I’ve recently found the definition of harmartia to be more along the lines of “fatal flaw.” That’s not how I was taught it….more like this: “Recent scholarship has suggested that the interpretation of hamartia as a fatal flaw is itself flawed, and that the word more properly means any disproportion in the character’s makeup that [...]

No Fun with AOL

About 100 years ago, I had an aol account. Every month I pay a piddly fee to AOL for a service I haven’t used in years. So, it being a nice quiet Labor Day, I decided, hey, I’ll finally candel this account.
Fat chance. After repeated attempts to get AOL to understand that I’m being billed [...]

Excellent Fishie Post

No, not by me. By Meridith: No Wonder Those Big Fish Are Hard to Catch.
Husbando takes issue with the fish feed in the open comment, but I’m backing Meridith 100% on this one.
Michael R.: read this.

Uh-oh, Blog Tag

Okay, Meridith, I can take a joke. You  might say I am fourever putting up with unfourtunate and unfourseen events that require my fourmidable skills.
But, the gauntlet has been thrown by the new “blog-tagging” game to come up with a title of your list that somehow plays on the word four…
4 Flowers

White jasmine
Bleeding heart
Zinnias
Dahlias

4 Plants

Northern catalpa [...]

Quck Updte

And for those of you wondering how the new job is going, obviously it’s taken up a lot of my time and energy. I certainly prefer commuting by train. I’m taking the fancy bus called the Limoliner to NYC a lot, where I stay with my soon-to-be-94-year old mother, and I take her out to [...]

Must Learn Trust

I never think the catalpas are going to bloom again, that the vegetable seeds will grow and that the dahlias will fill the Wedgwood vase.
And I’m always wrong.
In May, I have my doubts about the catalpas:

But they always bloom on July 4 weekend:

Sure, the garden starts slow — it’s from seed

then it explodes:

And dahlias???
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Back with a Vengeance This Time

Okay: when the computer crashed and burned, it took my pictures with it. Least, that’s what I’d thought. Seeing as I rarely erase pics on the camera, most of my spring and summer were saved!
And I get to share now with you!
Okay: Cape Ann from about April –
 
With the owner’s blessing, we demolish Shantytown across [...]