Not sure why I save some things. Glad I did with this one, though. From Luke, after I left him some candy one day when he was about … who knows? Maybe 4. Or 5? Old enough to know to erase that first extra “o,” though. And add one later, it looks like. That’s my… Read More Scenes from my bulletin board
Luke (and Mary Jo) have finished the college application process. The final group: Georgia Tech Texas Illinois Purdue MIT North Carolina State Clemson Colorado School of Mines Now comes the financial aid paperwork, and then the waiting. By late December (for a couple of them), or early in the year (for the rest of them, Tech… Read More Bald-faced money grabbing
I’ve mentioned this before, but right now it seems worth saying again: Everybody needs to get to the mountains once in a while just to leave all the noise behind. You know. The bills, the future, the crick in your neck. Foreign affairs, domestic politics. This guy. Traffic, the sad state of your lawn, that damn cold sore that’s coming… Read More Ahhhhhh …
The season opener for the mighty Blessed Trinity Titans was Friday night. Here they are (above) against the rival St. Pius X somethingorothers. (Lions? Cowardly Lions? I forget …) Mary Jo and I went, of course, to show some school spirit, to watch Luke do his thing with the BT drumline (he, of course again,… Read More Friday night light questioning
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We have a leak in a bathroom upstairs that has made its way downstairs. We noticed a little discoloration around one of the can lights over the kitchen sink. It grew. We knew we had a problem. “That’s a leak, all right.” That’s gonna cost us some money. OK. That’s one. Two. I’d say at… Read More Bitching and whining
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