Squirrel!

Last year, we spent a lot of money having ten pine trees removed from our backyard. Some of the benefits of having that done include no longer having to deal with pine allergies and pine needles everywhere including clogging the gutters. And the big one for...

Horrible Nightmare

I’m one of those people who doesn’t usually remember their dreams. In fact, it’s a very rare thing for me to remember a dream I had. Sometimes I might remember some kind of impression, but that’s about it. This morning, I woke up from a...

I blame the worms

This past week has been something else. Last Wednesday, little one studied worms in his science class and got to bring home a bin with three red worms (earthworms). There were leaves, shreds of newspaper, etc. for the worms. The key here being that I brought worms...

I am my mother’s daughter

While growing up, my brother and I used to tease my mom relentlessly when she’d fall asleep in the chair while watching TV. When we’d turn the TV off, she’d always wake up (that never failed) and fuss at us saying she was watching that program....

Crayola’s Spring Green

Crayola has this awesome color – Inchworm So when I was looking at the yellowish-green color of my deck – thanks to the incredible layer of pollen – I was thinking maybe Crayola should rename their green yellow color to Pollen. Then I found Spring...

The House Project That Keeps Growing

The original carpet installers didn’t stretch out the carpet in our bedroom, and over the years we’ve grown speed humps down the middle of the room. Mr M decided we needed to get rid of the carpet, and since he’d installed laminate wood flooring in...