I’ve been trying to get my thoughts down on just what made 4th of July 2026 so awful for a week. I think I’ll just blame it all on Trump. He wrecked the 4th of July, and during the week since there’ve been so many other egregious acts on his part, it’s hard to focus. … [Read more…]
Seemingly endless. Or maybe it’s because this is my 1st retired Fourth. The 4th was a Thursday so lots of people were on holiday from the 4th to the 8th. And it’s seemed holiday-mode-ish since the beginning of last week. I just deleted literally hundreds of July 4th sale emails. Our long holiday weekend kind … [Read more…]
So, last week was kind of funny, because we got back from the library conference on Wednesday. I worked some on Wednesday afternoon, then full days Thursday – including going to campus to volunteer for the book sale – and Friday, and then it was the holiday weekend. Saturday I wore myself out on food … [Read more…]
And ending it late, I guess – I started writing this post on Thursday and am only finishing now on Tuesday back-to-work day. — The other day in an email my brother said I work too hard. So today (Thursday) I decided to start the July 4 weekend early. I am taking Friday off, and … [Read more…]
This afternoon for about an hour it just kept getting darker and darker, and there was even a little thunder, but no rain. I mean, now it’s raining hard AF, but there was a long threatening period. Kind of like dozens of other threatening things hanging over us now. I think I’ll just post a … [Read more…]
So in the last couple weeks, we’ve started doing a few things we have not done since before the pandemic. We’ve had small groups of friends over, no more than 4 so a total of 6 people counting us, and only outside. I got a haircut – but just the short kind, 15-min. bang trim, … [Read more…]
Over dinner on July 6 we were saying we wished all weekends could be four days. That’s why I thought my mom had the perfect schedule, back in the ’90s when she ran a small library at Braddock Hospital, now UPMC Braddock – oops I guess now closed, UPMC Braddock from 1996-2009. Mom retired in … [Read more…]
We got back at sort of an odd time – early afternoon Saturday. Early, but too late for the farmers market or the strawberry U-Pick at my CSA farm, that I went to last year, and brought two buckets home. And ate them for breakfast, and made jam. I got started cleaning up and doing … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
Lamers, yes, but we still managed to do some fun things, and I cooked a lot. We saw two movies, neither of which was overwhelmingly good, but still entertaining. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] On Friday to start off the long weekend, we went to see Our Kind of Traitor and then came home and ate assorted … [Read more…]