Category: Family

  • Tiger Lily

    Roadside flora My dad and I bored ourselves to tears at the hospital, waiting for the drips to stop. Afterward, a quick trip through the e-check and my car got the thumbs up. We passed lots of Tiger Lilies along the way. They weren’t in bloom a week ago. I’m tired. Battling a cold that…

  • Family day

    All filled in Drove out to my sisters today and enjoyed the drive. Picked up lots of supplies at the craft store and fabric store for my sewing project along the way. Took another shot of the half grazed hill for compare and contrast purposes. Amazing what a few months can do. Gave my brother…

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  • Keep the shiny side up

    … I’m sitting there with my Pops, he’s grown weaker through the treatments. Weight’s down. Appetite gone. Hair, gone. The spirit’s there though. In his quiet way, it’s there. If anything, in his willingness to resume chemo. People ask me if we’re close, and I say yes without hesitation, but I know that I’m the…

  • Dishing

    The egg dish I’m not big on fancy wares for the table, tending to go for simple white with no ornamentation whatsoever. But I’ve always been drawn to this dish — the palette for eggs. It has resurfaced for Easter as long as I can remember. I also recall perhaps wanting to use the thing…

  • Goldilocks barns

    The sky was nice, but the temperature wasn’t. Unlike yesterday, the brisk weather returned for what I hope is the last hurrah. I wound the clock forward on this 04.04.04 with some dismay. I tend to be a “fall back” kinda fella. But warmth is good, I just hope Summer doesn’t step on Spring’s toes.…

  • Spring Grove

    Grandma The day was entirely too beautiful to be indoors, so I opted out of any museuming in favor of a walk outside. I called up my grandmother to see if she was game, and it was a wrestling match with the phone – my wireless connection and my mom’s broken receiver. We managed to…

  • Big Boy

    Boo I put the scare in my mom and brother at Frisch’s tonight. I had just gotten off the highway and was spent from the drive and hungry. They were leaving with a styrofoam container and didn’t see me. I took the opportunity to sneak up behind them and open the rear car door and…

  • Refuel

    163 a gallon Took my Dad to his last radiation session. While waiting, I kept getting phone calls. The first, from my own doctor, saying that my scans and bloodwork are in check, I do not need to see him again until September. The next was from an ex-client who found a page I google-bombed,…

  • Sunday

    A lovely one at that. Birthday lunch for sis. In attendance: grandma, brothers, mom and myself. Food was good. Company rushed. Afterward, a trip to Home Depot to get blinds for the new digs. Had to order the tall ones. The weather was incredible. A front was passing through, and the sky was a mix…