Photo Friday: Oh Snap

The dogwoods are starting to bloom. Which means we’re due for a cold snap.
I sort of don’t mind it, really, because at this point “cold” is a relative concept. Upper 70’s and lower 80’s for the past week has gotten me rather spoiled, though. 60-ish weather is going to be a bit of a shock.
But [...]

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My mind, it is so small.

Things I should have given up for Lent:
1. Talking out loud to myself
2. Cursing
3. Cursing out loud to myself
4. Cursing at inanimate objhects
5. Cursing at other people under my breath
6. Holding imaginary conversations with someone I’d like to curse at
7. Doing this out loud
8. Cursing myself
– Mox

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Duck: calm on the surface, paddling like hell underneath.

It seems I spend a good deal of my time peeved about something.
Yesterday I had to call my mortgage company to try and ascertain why they had assessed me a late fee on my last payment, when I had mailed it out on the 12th, which is in advance of the 16th deadline. Turns out [...]

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That’s odd.

I love to watch people. Now that we’ve had a spate of warm days, people have come out of hibernation, and that means I’ve had a quite a lot to watch here lately.
Here’s something that makes no sense to me: people who smoke a cigarette while riding a bicycle.
Is it just [...]

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Man.
80° over the weekend. Glorious.
My kid and the neighbor’s kid were out running around in their swimsuits yesterday. This is March?
I dragged the porch furniture up out of the basement yesterday. The cat was a bit miffed that I took her favorite sleeping spot away, but I’m glad to [...]

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Photo Friday: Dandy

The old wives’ tale (or old farmers, whichever) says that spring has officially arrived once the dandelions bloom. Dandelion blooms are said to signal no more snow.
Well, guess what’s blooming in my yard?
Huzzah!
– Mox

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I think I will write a sonnet, about my Easter bonnet.

Every so often, things will work out just right, where a beautiful, sunny, warm day exactly coincides with my day off.
Yesterday was such a day.
The First Day of Spring came in gently yesterday, with sunshine and 75° weather (in March! can you believe it?) and everyone out and about and in a [...]

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Sprrrrriiiiiiiinnnnngggggg!

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

This has been SO worth waiting for.
Enjoy these few glimpses of Spring in my neck of [...]

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Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

I’ve probably mentioned this before (and frankly I’m too lazy to go hunting around in the archives, especially in the 700+ posts at my old blog) but I am a heavy sleeper. I sleep the sleep of the dead. It’s a combination of sheer exhaustion and a clear conscience most of the time, but it’s [...]

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More than bunnies.

For all of the nail biting I do as a parent, there are moments where the planets are aligned perfectly and I can let go of the breath I’m holding. And even though they’re only moments in the grand scheme of hours and days and weeks and months, these moments somehow sustain me as if [...]

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