Earthmovers and Sandcastles

There are plenty of people in this world who don’t have indoor plumbing at all! I should be grateful just to have a toilet, even if it does overflow and flood the bathroom every time I flush, and it’s Friday evening, and all the plumbers in the city will be billing time and a [...]

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Last night…
GABE: “I hate corn on the cob! You made me corn on the cob! Where is the love we had?!”
This afternoon…
SAM: “Gabe stepped on a big ant, and then two other ants came and carried it away! He smashed my dreams!”
I think we’re gearing up for a simply smashing set of [...]

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I actually did manage to stay out last night until everybody was asleep (it’s aggravating to think that’s what will be the case, only to find an overtired kid yelling from his bed, well past his bedtime, that he’s NEVER going to sleep, not EVER), and it was good to not have to speak, to [...]

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Planted: one Bing Cherry tree, one Bartlett Pear tree. Also, roughly 50 pounds of soil into the flesh of my hands.

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It’s funny; if this were an ordinary week in my training, I’d just be thinking of it as a step-down week in mileage, which would be fine and welcome. I know, though, that it’s not a step-down week, that next week will be even lighter than this one, and therefore I feel completely lazy [...]

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Gosh, I just can’t trick the masses anymore. No, no wolves in our little house! No dogs of any kind; maybe one day we’ll do guinea pigs again.
Funny part was when Sam saw the video, heard me talking to him, and fell for it. “I was there? [...]

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“Ummmm…we were having stick races down the drain. But it was a long, long time ago!”
“Yeah! Not last night; we were sleeping then!”

I hope this is cheap, or at least not too bad. Tried plunging it, fishing down it – couldn’t even feel the obstruction. Drano is a laugh, [...]

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Ahem. Yet I see nobody marching hand in hand – just a steady stream of water, coming in through a very aptly named weep hole in my basement wall. I’ll admit to knowing absolutely nothing about home maintenance or waterproofing, but I’d have thought that a hole in the wall like that would [...]

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So Thanksgiving came and went, and Black Friday arrived to let Eric and me sleep in for an extra day. I actually did the “door-busting” thing last year, just to experience it, and I didn’t buy anything; it was surreal enough to simply witness the massive lines and chaos surrounding me.
So we didn’t get [...]

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Eric’s company puts up fleet cars (cars used for business trips, etc.) for auction every so often, and we’ve toyed in the past with the idea of bidding on one. Well, this year, we test-drove one, picked our bid, and Eric submitted it this morning.
By a high bid of three whole dollars over the [...]

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