3rd House PartyThe 3rd house in astrology is associated with writing, conversation, personal thoughts, day-to-day things, siblings and neighbors.New Blog Home at TypePad- November 18, 2004 Hi all, I've moved to TypePad: http:3rdhouseparty.typepad.comblog Please join me over in my new space and update your links. As with any new home, I expect a few odd kinks will be discovered as I continue to unpack. But I'm moved in and ready to invite friends over to hang out in my new digs. Come on ovah! L.http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/18.html#a749 Having a Cow- November 18, 2004 I was just doing my lunch dishes, including washing my soup bowl and my spoon rest, when this little scene struck me funny (that's my cow spoon rest enjoying a bubble bath): I've been extremely irritable the last couple of days. It must be my computer difficulties (more later). I've also been getting calls from my parents - my dad is having a hard time with my mom, yet he's reluctant to move into a continuing care retirement community. He likes his home, which I can't...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/18.html#a748 Intruders- November 17, 2004 I was just out walking when I saw a couple of intruders fleeing from someone's backyard - two white-tailed deer, the second one hopping the four-foot fence like an Olympic hurdler. They filed out through the camouflaging gray-brown thicket, white tails waving 'so long!', then they were gone. Their tails seemed exceptionally fluffy and I wondered if I hadn't seen them that close before or if they grow fatter with the cold weather. Last week when I walked by the Tower Hill Farm, the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/17.html#a747 Random sampling of frustrations- November 17, 2004 This morning I dreamed I was crouching beside a high fence and I had my fingers under it so I could just touch the fingers of M, who was on the other side. I couldn't really make him out through the little slats in the fence, and he wouldn't come out, hiding himself, grasping only my fingers in his, a few interlocking knuckles, as if a handshake with palms touching would be too intimate. It made me sad. Or I was sad and so I dreamt it. --- I've had several good phone...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/16.html#a746 Autumnal Striptease- November 15, 2004 Slipping free of their leafy cover the trees show so much limb the embarrassed birds fly south abandoning imprudently exposed summer nests for the modesty of the Bible Belt. Gleefully the impudent shrubs flaunt their berry-studded undergarments while the deciduous luxuriate solely in strands of ruby holly and strategically placed bittersweet. Sporting mistletoe crowns strung with poisonous pearls they invite the kisses of jack o'lanterns that watch leering from the stoops wizening into...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/15.html#a745 No inhalation but inspiration- November 15, 2004 My friend T had a dinner party Saturday night - several people I used to work with and a couple of spouses. The time seemed to fly by. I ate way too much lasagna, drank too much wine (but at least I passed on the weed!), and then ate too much brownies and ice cream. M's husband fell asleep by the fireplace and I think I could have easily done so, too. We joked about partying while middle-aged. T is pushing 60 but has at least twice the stamina I have. MJ is planning for her 50th in...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/15.html#a744 Moving soon- November 14, 2004 I've been relatively happy with Radio Userland, once I got it set up over a year ago. But there are things that I haven't liked, including the fact that it's client-based so I have to be sitting at my desk in my office to post (never mind mo-blogging, another story). Glitches have been relatively minor. But this morning my blog suddenly has question marks in place of half of my punctuation - quotes, ellipses, em dashes - all replaced with - apparently throughout my entire blog, archives and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/14.html#a743 Gazebo- November 13, 2004 Grafton Common, Nov. 13 GAZEBO A small building, usually in a garden, with a good view. This word is surrounded by more mystery than an earnest etymologist would like. It appears in 1752 without any warning or antecedent in part four of a book by William and John Halfpenny with the title New Designs for Chinese Temples, an influential work that was aimed at the then new English fashion for the oriental in design and architecture. read more herehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/13.html#a742 Like white on rice- November 13, 2004 This morning everything is covered in a blanket of white. It looks like we got about three inches, enough to cover everything, enough for the plows. And it's still coming down, although the radar shows its giant DayGlo blue and green mass moving offshore soon. It's supposed to be sunny today. Out on my deck, the wind blows swirls of powder every few minutes, like Old Man Winter's breath. Otherwise it falls straight down - like rice, I was thinking. Then I remembered a poem I read a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/13.html#a741 Sorry Everybody- November 13, 2004 This is great. Click on the gallery. Some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are truly, truly sorry. And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren't.http://radio.weblogs.com/0129978/2004/11/12.html#a740 |