Like, say, knitting? I’m back, but I make no promises about frequency or duration. However, I do have some important points to share with all of you. Whoever you are, after my six months of absence.
1. It’s cold. Again. (Actually, as the H pointed out this morning, what we’re experiencing today, i.e., high near 40, is now warm. At least for the next 6 months.)
2. It’s supposed to snow tonight.
3. I still muck. I really like it. Remind me of this in February.
4. I only have three chickens left. No new ones will join our flock until spring. Really, really, really. This is a promise I must keep to myself.
5. Dido slammed his thumb in my car door yesterday. He wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing with his hands because he was too busy yelling at me for not wanting to buy him Doritos on the way home from school. He’s doing so well in 3rd grade that it’s hard to complain, but sassy, pre-adolescent backtalk does seem to be the new world order.
6. The Great Pumpkin visited our house last week. He planted a pumpkin vine down by the chicken yard, and grew two big, gorgeous orbs on it for the kids to find. He even mailed them a letter, telling them to watch for clues. He left them a treasure hunt, with clues written on miniature pumpkins. The Babe thinks, as she does about many things, “You never know…” Dido? He wants handwriting analysis. I, my mother in law, and my BFF Leslie (who was visiting just before the pumpkins arrived) are all suspects.
7. We still haven’t seen the bear. But coyotes dragged a deer carcass into our front yard last weekend. Who do you think picked it up, put it in the wheelbarrow, and pushed it into the woods? You’re right. Not the sweet blind man who lives with me.
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