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Attack of the giant six-legged spider.
I was innocently reading a book in my recliner a few days ago, glanced over, and had an intense but brief freak-out. Damned if that doesn’t look like a giant six-legged spider, huh? Geez Louise, if I didn’t have arachnophobia before, that almost did the trick! Alas, it’s just the lightbulb and lampshade fixtures. We…
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I’d be a hermit in a roundabout way.
Cheese isn’t the only thing for sale in Wisconsin. I’ve come across some other interesting products while shopping lately. Two of them may be dairy-adjacent, but one is not. And no, I did not buy any of them…though I have to say, had I spotted the Christmas tree-shaped butter sculpture in December, that baby would…
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Confessions of a serial backer-inner.
A few weeks ago, after our first significant snowfall of the season, I wrote about driving to work and backing into a parking space in the snow-covered TobacCo parking lot. This drew the ire of my uncle Tom, who harangued me on Facebook. Tom: Oh, the ignominy to learn that I’m related to a backer-inner.…
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This is NOT a perfect marriage!
A few months ago, Tara was raving about this book she read. “You have to check it out!” she gushed, so I added it to my Kindle queue. I love a good recommendation! Meanwhile, this week I was slogging through a book so bad, it infuriated me: The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose. (If this…
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Thank god for Good Samaritans and Midwest Nice.
It all began because I wanted a picture of a barn. We’d already been barn-hopping, as it were. Driving through the snowy Wisconsin countryside, sticking to the backroads, in search of natural beauty. We found plenty of that. Eventually, we found ourselves in Delavan. Stopped for lunch at a pub and grill across from the…
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The little light that could.
I was reading blogs earlier and had quite the scare. I was in the basement, because that’s where my home office is located, and suddenly heard water gurgling. Hmm, that’s odd, I thought. When it didn’t stop after half a minute, I got up to investigate, checking the bathroom and laundry room to figure out…
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