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Welcome back!We had the new neighbors over for dinner this evening. They were delicious. (Just kidding. )
We got to know quite a bit about them. More than I wanted to know, in fact. We learned, for example, that he has a truly incredible appetite, that she has all the fashion sense of a bag […]

While helping the new neighbors unload their junk stuff, I noticed a really nice looking stereo cabinet and, for some unknown reason, all day I’ve been thinking about the “entertainment center” that my father had. He made it out of a refrigerator that he had gutted. To cover the hideous green, he screwed sheets of […]

I had never heard of fire glass until this morning. At first I thought it was just a special kind of glass that goes into those glass doors you frequently see in front of fireplaces.
Wrong.
These are small glass beads that you put in the bottom of a burner which fits in your gas fireplace.

That’s a […]

I woke up yesterday morning to the soothing sound of a semi truck positioning a mobile home on the property next door. Oh goody, neighbors! (sigh.)
Today was apparently Moving Day, as evidenced by the U-Haul that showed up loaded to the gills. I went out to see what was going on and, before I knew […]