Archives in Category: Annoyances

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Cutting Corners

Posted on May 25, 2014

This morning my car was almost clipped as I sat at M-39 and Nickerson while the cars on the road to my right made their left hand turns in front of me.  I’m sure if I stuck my hand out

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Moles

Posted on May 8, 2014

The man who helps me with my flower gardens came yesterday to assess the damage of the long winter and make a plan. The damage is severe: moles have taken over the lawn and the flower beds. The bushes are

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Temperature Fluctuation

Posted on April 4, 2014

I returned from Costa Rica’s ninety-nine degree temperatures two weeks from today.  At the time, I was grateful to feel chill on my cheeks instead of perspiration. And I promised myself I’d never whine about weather again.

I take that

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Curmudgeon Monday, Revisited

Posted on February 10, 2014

Somewhere in my blogdom, I reserved Mondays for complaints.  They were labeled Curmudgeon Mondays and contained rants about various contemporary habits or trends that bugged me.  I feel the need to return to that format so that all my blogs

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So Sorry, Madam

Posted on January 7, 2014

As most of my good friends know, I’m not a morning person.  And now that I’m no longer gainfully employed I have every intention of staying that way.  At the same time, there are occasional reasons to set an alarm and

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Spam

Posted on December 9, 2013

I am always amazed at the emails in my spam folder.  It’s not the quantity of them.  That goes without saying. Or the content.  It runs the gamut. It’s really about the preposterous claims that truly mark them as spam.

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Country Music Awards

Posted on September 18, 2013

For some reason I recorded last year’s November County Music Awards .  I don’t recall if I ever watched the show, but tonight – for lack of something more educational to do – I decided to view it.

Let it

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Plain Is Vanishing

Posted on September 16, 2013

Recently I whined about the loss of ice cream in quarts and small animal cracker boxes. Today I’m grinching about the loss of vanilla yogurt and plain hamburgers. Great filet mignon too.

Let’s take it point by point . .

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Grey Day

Posted on September 15, 2013

We’re a week away from the official start of autumn, but already I feel it in my bones. Today exacerbated that feeling with its continually falling rain and dreary skies.  We need the rain; rather, farmers and flowers need it. 

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Please Print the Recipe

Posted on September 2, 2013

The latest Williams-Sonoma catalog came in the mail recently, and I am disappointed.

I’m a committed devotee of W-S, and I especially enjoy looking through its catalog because of the recipes the company includes to show off its various cookware

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