The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!The other day I mentioned the flea market down the road. I noticed last night that it isn’t a flea market any more. Now it’s the home base for some sort of taxi service, I think. In a way, that’s a good thing because this end of the internet is severely lacking in any […]

Now that Daughter Number One is officially married, she and The Son-In-Law are really wanting their own place. There’s just not a whole lot of privacy when your “bed” is in someone else’s living room. To that end, a phone call was placed the other day in order to inquire about a 1-bedroom, 1-bath mobile […]

Somehow recently the conversation turned to strange food combinations. I think this was about the time I was watching Daughter Number Three put ketchup on her broccoli and cauliflower while making a macaroni and cheese sandwich. I was reminded of my father, who liked to open a can of split pea with ham soup and, […]

Our family does something a little different when it comes to birthdays and such. Because we’ve had two daughters attending schools on opposing ends of the state and The Aunt and Uncle are always included in those celebrations, we tend to put off the actual birthday celebration and gift exchange until all the various schedules […]

I know there have been a lot of similar lists of strange things said in hospitals and emergency rooms, most of which have been longer and funnier than this one, but this list has one unique feature: these are all things that I actually heard during my most recent hospital stay.

Your blood count is really […]