Month: September 2026

Last week, while Daughter Number One was visiting, her car needed to get the oil change.  She made an appointment with the dealership, and she and I showed up there at the appointed hour.  They told her that, not only were they not ready for her, but that she should expect a wait of at… Continue reading Oil Change

Isn’t there some better way to do this?  That thought looped through my mind over and over as, part of a team of five, I helped Daughter Number Two transfer jigsaw puzzles from her old house to her new house.  More specifically from the basement of her old house to the basement of her new… Continue reading Puzzles, Power, Bird

On a Zingerman’s run yesterday, my sweetheart and I spent extra time in the Bakehouse parking lot, watching a team of men hang an awning over a door.  The awning was bright purple, a pleasing shape, and apparently quite heavy.  The team putting it up seemed like men who had worked together many times and… Continue reading Awnings and Roos

I had to use the windshield wipers this morning.  It was a thrill.  We’ve had no reason to turn on wipers for quite a while.  True, it rained yesterday, but that was during the sort of storm that sets off the city’s emergency sirens.  The worst of it missed us this time, for which we… Continue reading Obstacles