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Scenes from an exhibition
I’m not just famous, I’m IN-famous! Last Thursday, as you may remember, I posted something about the marriage of a nationally famous blogger and her less-prolifically-blogging, linking to both posts in which they referenced their marriage. I don’t do a lot of linking to other sites in this blog, and certainly less than I used [...]
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I’m going down to pig(skin) town
As some of you may have heard, they’re going to be playing a professional football game in my town in just under ten days, and preparations are afoot to outfit downtown to received what’s expected to be about 150,000 people. To say nothing of millions of people watching on TV. Friday starts a week of [...]
The Perils of “Poinciana”
My paid Sunday position with the Presbyterians, though it involves a wide variety of music, is at least nominally rooted in the classics. I didn’t blink an eye when we sang “My Lord, What a Mornin’”, was a tad scornful when we made our way through Rutter, and was slightly bewildered with some Contemporary Christian [...]
Caught!
I’ve mentioned recently that our new dog was so well house-trained that I got a bit annoyed. Going through troubles together is how you forge a bond, right? Butch and Sundance worked so well together as a team because just less than half the time, they hated each other’s guts. As a related aside, now [...]
A left turn at Albuquerque
I tried to walk the dog this morning. Something in me has decided that I should use the time between when I get up (first in the household) and when I take a shower (after both girls) productively. And walking the dog is something that I can do without taking a shower. It’s dark outside, [...]
Un chien and a Hugh
I didn’t have a dog growing up. I certainly didn’t feel the lack, there was enough to do and enough excitement with three boys in the house. I wasn’t anti-canine, but neither did I ever hanker for doggy companionship. That having been said, I’ve always been more partial to dogs than cats. When the Wife [...]
How you watch the rest of the world through a window
The ornaments are off the tree, but the trash doesn’t come up until Friday, so I have a couple of days to get it out. I should have known that the community tree recycling drop-off would only accept trees until Epiphany Sunday. We had a good tree this year, nice and tall, a Douglas fir. [...]
It’s good luck to rub your nose on a barnacle
Grab that crab, Clarissa! Eat that meat, Jennifer! Why, doesn’t that pheasant look pleasant? What I’ve called my “secret shame” finally arrived in the mail yesterday: the complete series of Two Fat Ladies on DVD. The Wife and I used to watch this show religiously, back when Food Network was actually trying to be about [...]
Administrative Note
With the New Year here, even though we’re already a couple of days into it, I’ve decided to make some changes to the blog. Some of them are immediately visible, some less so. The template that you see around these words has been changed from Château to Nuntius. Though I was very enamored of the [...]
Wherein I fill out forms
With the new year comes the realization that I have to get going on a new passport application. I have to start from scratch this time, as I’ve let the darn thing expire, despite making promises to myself to renew it online over the last couple of years. The last one I had dates from [...]
Wherein I ring in the new, or at least tinkle
Just like clockwork, the new year comes and the first snow falls. In the memories of my youth in suburban Chicago, the first snow always fell on November 7th, and there was a 50/50 shot of major flurries around Thanksgiving. Were I a photographer, I’d be out all day today, I love the crisp, white [...]
