My little corner of the world

Since he said it wouldn’t make it into the church’s slideshow, I just had to put it on Google Video. :)

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First it was the stove. Now, the cold shadow of death has moved outside: our poor pitiful mower - Snapper, early 60’s (we think) flavor - has gone to the great meadow in the sky. Michael so hated cutting the yard (about a 1 1/2 hour job on that old thing) that […]

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Tonight while watching an episode of Good Eats (Alton is da bomb!), BooBoo and Pemberton came barreling through the den and ended up playing the “wave the claws and hiss at one another” game over in the corner by the TV. Well, after a few hisses scary enough to shoo Pembie away, BooBoo made […]

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You know it’s time to wash clothes when the pile is nearly as tall as you:

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OK, so today on the way back from Publix, we began to have a lively conversation on interesting euphamisms for “somebody’s weird.” As in, “she’s two fields shy of an SQL statement.” (Sorry ’bout that. If there’s one thing worse than geek humor, it’s *bad* geek humor…) Anyway, we went back […]

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But it’s still funny anyway.

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Tonight was Game Night, and Nathan broke out the Monopoly game. He really got into the game, as evidenced by the following animated remarks:
(As he is rolling the dice) “Oombah! Oombah! Oombah!”
And later, “Be quiet, you pompous fool!”
Last but not least, my favorite: “Curses you! You counteracted my supernatural […]

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Our stove died last night. It’s kinda old. Wait, ‘vintage’ sounds better. It’s one of those old school drop-in cooktops with push buttons - yes, I said push buttons. In the middle of prepring a new recipe - beef and rice noodle soup - the whole push-button control thingie made a […]

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