Category Archives: home
naked cranberry neighbour oatcakes
Okay. What is it with nekkid neighbours? On any given day, without fail, somebody out there searches for “naked neighbour” and comes to my site. The only thing on my site that’s searched for more often is “cranberry oatcakes”. The … Continue reading
Cooking up a winter storm
I don’t know what it is, but I’m cooking a lot lately. Nesting, maybe? It may not be helping me to keep my girlish figure, but oh, I’m enjoying it. The photo stream on my phone looks like a foodie’s … Continue reading
Hubris
I never realized just how much of my parents’ blend of French Canadian/Irish addictive-moody-guilty Catholicism I had absorbed until a tree hit my house and I thought it was a sign that I’d gotten too “cocky”. I mean, really. Yeah, … Continue reading
Compendium of Miscellany
It has been quiet here at Box 761. I had both of my daughters home for a while. Let me rephrase: Box 761 the blog has been quiet, but in “real life” it has been a bit hectic. New used-car … Continue reading
Stuff.
I have stuff. Lots of it. I really like stuff. I have a particular fondness for books, which I don’t actually consider to be “stuff”, but which for my purposes here today can fit the category in a pinch. I … Continue reading
Round, luscious, and almost ready…
Tomatoes. Oh they’re lovely. I planted one single little teensy weensy “Million Bells” and now have a whole lot of them getting ready to be picked. Alas, I will be on a much-anticipated road trip with Mr. 761 when they … Continue reading
761 Miscellaneous Events
I have discovered that if one does not schedule time for blog-writing, said writing often goes undone. This past week Mr. 761 stayed up very late talking with a neighbor who’d come to visit (not the nearly-naked one). At around … Continue reading
Noise and Pylons, Call of Duty and Springrolls
This has been a fairly busy week. Mr. 761 is home, and quite diverting company. The sound track to the week has been the construction going on right outside the house. The town is replacing sewer mains or something, and … Continue reading
Authenticity & Animals
Had a good day. Slept in (after getting up at 6 with the dogs, we all trooped back to bed), had a leisurely time reading the paper and puttering around the house. There’s nothing nicer, is there? Clean kitchen, calm … Continue reading
Gardening Guilt. And my half-naked neighbor.
I love the idea of gardening. I really don’t like the reality of it though, and finally hired someone to do it for me. How wonderful it is! She actually seems to like working in my garden — weeding, pulling … Continue reading
