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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Continuing with the domesticity

In the past couple weeks I have canned:

5 quarts of dill pickles
6 half pints blueberry jam
6 half pints blackberry jam
3 half pints corncob jelly
5 half pints apple cider jelly
7 quarts peaches

And I have a 26 oz. bottle full of mushy peach castoffs turning into booze.
Right now I’m drinking hot [...]

A lesson in money management!

I’m sitting here looking at my credit card statement, trying to figure out what this $11.95 charge is with a description of a bunch of random letters and numbers. NCIC ########## BC 800-5959694 TX? What the hell is that? It took me a few minutes to notice that ########## is James’ phone [...]

finally some alone time

Back from visiting my  family in Pennsylvania, and then camping with James and his cousins in Oregon (near Cannon Beach if you want to know). Rainy. Also cold. I went swimming anyway and it felt great. I’ve been terribly moody though, and when we came back to James’ dad’s house with [...]