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Yearly Archives: 2003

Monday night is one of Diane’s nights to cook. Matt has Thursday and I know I have Tuesday but sometimes I forget. Maybe it’s a directions thing because yesterday I was at Shaw’s buying food for dinner. Which is always a challenge. Sometimes Matthew and I wander the aisles like observers from another dimension. There […]

Dear Adam, Do you remember the skylight we installed in Wayland? What road, I don’t remember, but the house was a modest ranch and not far north of where Sherman’s Bridge Rd. meets Rt. 126. You and I had just finished the framing, when Rick comes by, and as often happened, he pointed out what […]

View larger image Yes, it did snow, and no, it hasn’t stopped, and, you got that right, I want to move to North Carolina. I’m betting schools will be closed tomorrow. Another comment on blogonyms. Diane. “Who’s in good company?” Me. “What did they write?” Diane.” Nothing like a few unabashed kith & kin! I […]

Last Christmas, the Canning sisters decided to give Flo a bouquet of flowers, one a month, for the entire year. Early this week, while replacing an exterior wall of a condominium rotted by an improperly installed deck (have you checked your flashing lately?), I met Amelia, of Amelia’s Flowers, and bought this bouquet for Flo. […]

Last Christmas, the Canning sisters decided to give Flo a bouquet of flowers, one a month, for the entire year. Early this week, while replacing an exterior wall of a condominium rotted by an improperly installed deck (have you checked your flashing lately?), I met Amelia, of Amelia’s Flowers, and bought this bouquet for Flo. […]

Berkeley Breathed is back in the Sunday Globe, knocking Doonesbury off the front page. Here is an old Bloom County: View entire strip

Thursday night was my last writing class and it ended with discussion of how to improve the class, what comes next, and how many people were going to take the same course in the winter. There are two or three people who keep repeating. I also got feedback on my last story, “Tunnels.” Besides the […]

I dropped by Annís to trap whatever rodent was now living in her attic and to see what could be done about her screened-in porch. The porch is a bit bigger than the Kibbesí, but without the cool stainless steel tie rods. In fact, there are no tie rods, nor a supporting ridge, and the […]