condemned

I'm sure I blogged about the fridge and its off-and-on performance. We did the whole Easter meal with a large block of ice on the top shelf of the fridge as the cooling feature was taking the weekend off; I may have overlooked blogging about last week's expensive repair (faulty thermostat . . . duh!). Or about the expensive repair on the dishwasher (glass in filter). And you do recall the car blowing up on the way to Children's Hospital, don't you?

With all that, don't you think it's a bit much to have the furnace guy come out today and condemn our furnace? He shut the gas off and everything and then asked me for $100.

Elle and Captain Smartypants are coming for lunch today. I do hope they dress warmly.

Friday Poetry: Rain Poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Rain Poem

The rain was like a little mouse,
quiet, small and gray.
It pattered all around the house
and then it went away.

It did not come, I understand,
indoors at all, until
it found an open window and
left tracks across the sill

~ Elizabeth Coatsworth

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:: this post is part of the Friday Poetry roundup hosted by Becky's Book Reviews.

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The Inklings Challenge

I just ran across this over at Becky's Book Reviews and am going to jump in.

Options: Read two C.S. Lewis books (fiction or nonfiction) and/or watch films based on his life or his works. In addition, read two books by J.R.R. Tolkien and/or watch films based on his works. Biographies of the two men would also work. Also reading the two books by James A. Owen that feature these two as fictional characters would work. The books are Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon.

Care to join us?



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expelled

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Mrs. Brownish Beetle

Remember to keep an eye out for the return of Mrs. Brownish Beetle.

works for me: best of

Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer, has declared this week to be the Best of Week. So here are the Best of my Works for Me Wednesday postings.

:: Keeping Kids Occupied
:: Allowances
:: Candy Fairy
:: laundry sorting
:: pick it up
:: and lots more of my other Works for Me posts.




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blogger's block

It's not that I don't have anything to blog about, it's that I have too much. Too many things that I need to do a little research on and process and then share.

Here is what is muddling up my already weary head:

Micro-chipping newborns. Google it and it will take you straight to some wacko websites of paranoid conspiracy theorists. So why am I going to blog about it? Because I got an email last week that said this: "Actually when our newborn was born (December 12, 2007), they asked us if we wanted to have him "Chipped"; the Hospital explained if he was every kidnapped or ran away or something we could find him." (implication: GPS chips). So, I need to research this. I truly hope there was a misunderstanding. I know they put an electronic tag on the umbilical cord thingamajig to make sure baby isn't carried off the ward, but the tag part of the thagamajig is removed/turned off when baby is discharged. Anyway, the very idea is so alarming that I need to look into it further. The whole chipping thing is rather disturbing.

Bush's insane plans for the Federal Reserve. I'll pull together a coherent post on that as soon as I can talk about it without foaming at the mouth.

Sensory Integration Issues. According to Chickadee's Occupational Therapist, I need to become knowledgeable on this too.

and, I've become a podaholic. I'm too busy listening to the voices in my pocket to do much writing these days. I'm hoping to post a list of my favorite podcasts in the near future.