I’m baaaack.

I really don’t quite know what I want to do with a personal blog so instead of actually doing much, I just keep starting new ones.  I think this is going to have to be the one that ’sticks’.
I was just sitting here thinking about how a Chicago restaurant messed up Don’s birthday–at least for [...]

Mid April

It was fabulous out on Friday.  Warm, sunny…just beautiful, until the afternoon when it got cloudy and just started getting colder and colder.  Yesterday sucked.  Clouds, rain…blech.  Today is totally sunny and 37 degrees.  What the hell is wrong with spring in Chicago this year???  Am I asking for too much?  Sunny and upper 60s [...]

More snow

It can stop anytime now.  I’m getting really tired of snow.  Really I am.  They are predicting 6-10 inches in Chicago and up to 18 in places in Wisconsin.  Guess maybe I shouldn’t complain quite so much.  We’ve had so much this year so far.  I wanted to go out to breakfast in the morning [...]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

I can’t get enough r’s on the end of that!  Damn it’s cold in Chicago again.  We went to our neighborhood meeting last night and drove because it might get bad.  We went in and it was cold.  We came out into a blizzard.
Mr. Fuzz was waiting for us when we got home looking like [...]

Still brrrrrr!

Damn it’s still cold here today!  I’m trying to be green and not turn up the heat but I’m freezing.  Nutmeg keeps stomping in and giving me these looks.  She likes to sleep on the vent at the bottom of the back stairs and I think she wants me to go and turn up the [...]

Changes

October was so nice in Chicago.  It was warm.  I spent a lot of my day on the deck doing chainmaille.  It was even nice yesterday.  Then this morning happened.  It’s early winter in Chicago now.  The wind is blowing; the leaves are falling and the squirrels are begging for more peanuts. 
One of the raccoons [...]