I finished a crafting project and only blistered one finger with the glue gun! This is epic, you guys. My mom brought me several of my late grandmother’s pins earlier this summer. I have my doubts that my grandmother actually ever wore most of these pins, as they lean toward the sparkly and the offbeat, [...]
Archive for September, 2010
The glue gun may have won the battle, but I won the war. At least this one.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crafts, family, frames, glue gun, grandmother, husband, jewelry, mother, paint, sparkly on September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
On the rocks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adulthood, childhood, driveway, JCPenney, Michael's, money, obsessive, rock tumbler, rocks on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I always wanted a rock tumbler when I was a kid. I eyed the same one every year when the JCPenney catalog arrived, picturing myself polishing rock after shiny rock. I was a bit obsessive, even as a child. Our driveway would have simply gleamed with polished rocks. I saw a tumbler on the shelf [...]
Now serving: disappointment cake
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate cream cheese frosting, cooking, cream cheese, CSA, food, freezer, fridge, refrigerator, sweets, zucchini, zucchini bread on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t eat a lot of cake in the Haggerty household. It’s just the two of us, and we don’t particularly eat a lot of anything, especially sweets. Which is too bad, because I love to bake and can be quite good at it. So when I DO decide that a cake is forthcoming, it [...]
Yang lands on his feet
Posted in Cats, Photographs, tagged animals, cats, chronic renal failure, kidney failure, mother on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A lot of people have asked me how Yang, Yin’s brother, is doing now that he’s by himself. I have to admit that he’s been practicing being a solo cat for a couple of years, hanging out with his brother only for meals and the occasional fight or stair chase. My mom says that animals [...]
Rings in the drawer, pants on the ground
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clothes, diet, eating, food, lunch, matrimony, rings, shopping, stress, tonsillectomy, wedding rings, weight, weight loss on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I discovered that I can no longer safely wear my wedding rings. Four weeks of stress has led to weight loss, and my fingers are too skinny. I haven’t seen this weight since I had a tonsillectomy at age 20. Lucky me, I guess, except I hate shopping for clothes and don’t want to [...]
The last days of Yin: snacks, adventure and love. Also, more snacks.
Posted in Cats, Photographs, tagged ahi tuna, animals, cantaloupe, catnip, cats, chicken, chronic renal failure, cremation, death, grandmother, Greenies, husband, melon, pet cremation, pets on September 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I received tons of kind, helpful advice from a lot of people recently regarding some difficult decisions my husband and I had to make about our cat, Yin. The statement that stayed with me day and night, though, was one that a fellow Alabama blogger, Bo, shared. Bo’s 15-year-old dog had died in her sleep [...]
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