The Rusty Nail

This item is new to us.  A woman in the next town over put up a “For Sale” ad on Nextdoor, for a used wine fridge.  Turns out she and her husband said “we’ll take it” when some friends of theirs were moving, and didn’t want to bring it with them.  They used it for […]

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Today, a couple from diagonally across the street came by to drop off a huge tray of Christmas cookies.  Ever since we met them three years ago at another neighbor’s Christmas party, they’ve been dropping of Christmas cookies for us.  These are the same neighbors who made face muzzles for us when the fiat came […]

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We went to visit my mother last weekend.  While we were packing up quarts of my homemade beef stew and coconut carrot ginger soup for her, our dog alerted us to some strange activity outside.  I looked out a window to the driveway, but didn’t see anything.  My other half took the dog outside to […]

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This woman in in my Nextdoor “neighborhood,” which comprises a few square miles.  We got a snow dump of less than a foot — maybe 9″.  So, the township guys were out plowing overnight Wed.-Thu.  Anyway, the lady logged into Nextdoor to complain about the lousy plowing job that covered her mailbox post in more […]

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Because of COVID19, our neighbors across the street are not hosting their Christmas party this year, but they did decorate.  Nothing like the guy down the street, though, who lights up the whole neighborhood.  I do some decoration, but I don’t do much more than wreaths on our doors, and some solar powered outdoor lights […]

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This time, we’re supposed to get a good 18″ dump tomorrow, although I’m skeptical.  It’s still sunny-overcast.  Just in case, we’re going to make chicken divan for dinner tonight, and Swiss steak for dinner tomorrow.  They’re both good dishes for sub-freezing weather.  Plus, we’re going to need some calories to go out there to shovel […]

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It’s snowing pretty hard outside.  I like it.  If it’s going to be cold, it might as well snow.  Sure, it’s a pain having to dig out the vehicles to go run errands, ans plow the driveway, but it’s a small price to pay for a little bit of winter wonderland.  One year, it snowed […]

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Aside from the spicy turkey curry I made this evening to mask the taste of the dark meat, which, thankfully, was all we had left of the bird, the previous two casseroles I made from leftovers were good.  Brought mom a turkey pot pie in a 6″ diameter Corningware dish last Sunday, along with some […]

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No, not our cell phones.  Within 30 minutes this afternoon my mom called me three times, freaking out about getting double billed for her cell phone service.  After listening to her for for several minutes, it was obvious what she needed to do about it, but she won’t.  So, we have to drive over there […]

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