1. I bet that if I ever did anything truly horrible, I would have a much less sensitive guilty conscience. I can’t tell you how guilty I feel about accidentally stepping on and breaking the shell of that one hermit crab on Maui approximately 3.5 years ago. 2. A constant stream of visiting strangers who [...]
For noticing this bit of the probably quite expensive advertising campaign for The Pacific miniseries: First baby duck rescue, then this. Is there anything he can’t do?* * Rhetorical
Just when you thought Stephan couldn’t get any more awesome, he goes and saves a tiny little baby bitesize duckling! We had a bit of bread to feed the ducks on our canal walk yesterday, but we couldn’t find very many, so we had to walk farther than we usually do, down to the lock [...]
1. I much prefer Bonfire Night to Halloween. This may mean I’m British now. The bonfire we went to this year was a fundraiser for the local Scout troop and featured a hastily constructed pile of wooden pallets, assorted food stalls in an open building that quickly filled with smoke, a bouncy castle, and a [...]
Not to be one of those annoying couples that claims they never fight, but we almost never do. And we’re pretty good at speedy resolution, so no one has ever had to sleep on the couch. This may not long be the case, however, as we do have this one ongoing issue that as yet [...]
I apologize for the spider-centric posts of late, but I just have this one tiny additional story to tell you. Okay, so remember the previous reference to the annual and prolific spider invasion? It’s now over, thank goodness, but when we got back from the US, I had ten or so spiders to usher outside, [...]
On one of our super fun weekends back home, we went out to the Oregon Coast for the weekend with these people we know. There were lots of pelicans there. Seriously. It was almost scary, like in The Birds, or in a short story of a similar nature I read this one time in which [...]
Yesterday was our three-year anniversary, and as a married lady of great experience, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some marriage wisdom that I only recently discovered. Basically: say what you mean (and mean what you say, I guess). What I say: I’m doing laundry today. What I mean: Time to move [...]
You guys like birds, right? I do and I’m doing my best to make Stephan like them too. Starting with these: [note: all but the first of these photos were stolen from you, the Internets] {{tiny little baby ducks on the canal}} {{moorhens who will eat anything}} {{comparatively solemn coot}} {{blue tit who flits around [...]
Because if I were not the best wife ever, I probably would not tell you this delightful story about our recent Scrabble game, as follows. Stephan plays his first word: Me, being nice, because Scrabble is My Game and we’re only playing it because I’m tired of losing at Rook: “Here, let me help you”: [...]
