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Not Again…

Sigh, I have to take my car back into the shop! This has been such a good car, never in the shop, never needing expensive repairs, but lately it seems like the shop is becoming a second home for it. Sigh.

This time it’s the fan that blows air into the car. It has four speeds, [...]

From The Yard

FromTheYardOriginally uploaded by missyisms

I’m testing Flickr’s Blog This feature. I have no idea how this will end up looking on my blog. Zooomr just lets me copy some code into my blog to display the picture…well, we’ll see how this works out.

(The image and the text above were put in by Flickr’s Blog This feature. [...]

Operation Petticoat…Partial

After running a plethora of errands today I got home about 2:30 and turned on the TV as I had a late lunch. Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis was playing. The movie was at exact the same spot it was last time I stumbled on the movie, with Curtis’s character trying to [...]

The Word Time

Have you seen the Flickr video group, Word Time? Each week the group records a list of English words so they can listen to how the words are pronounced differently around the world. Sounds weird, but it’s kind’a cool…but too many U.S. and Canadian mid-westerns that sound just like me. I want to hear other [...]

Just Had to Laugh

This Bound & Gagged comic made me laugh this morning. Always appreciate a good laugh. Click image for better view.

Copyright: Dana Summers and Tribune Media Services, Inc.

Great Timing

As I said here, I planted grass seed in my yard. As you know, grass seeds need water to grow.

Last evening I was paying bills and looky at the inauspicious little note I found buried in the small print of my water bill:

Notice of Rate Increase: Water and sewer rates will increase an [...]

Buy a Lawn Mower, Sell a Car

The last few evenings I’ve been laboring over my sad, pathetic looking yard. Last year I paid a service to mow my yard, but they came every week whether the yard needed mowing or not…something they had promised they wouldn’t do. And this year, my lawn looks awful. So I decided to tend to it [...]