Blogula Rasa

I knew I spoke too soon. The lawn blimps are back. There’s also an illuminated flag-thing hanging in front of the garage that’s red, white and blue Christmas lights in some sort of plastic grid. The sign to the left is permanent and commemorates local firefighters and police, which I was able to read for [...]

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Church today was funny (now there’s an opening line). It’s Pentecost and a lot of the readings were about tongues of fire and the Holy Spirit and the voice of a strong wind and so on. Every time one of these themes would come up, there would be a rumble of thunder. There were [...]

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Well, I finally got the simple web pages for “Holy Moly” updated (see The Church of the Holy Innocents) and added the date of the “Holy Rollers” car show. Apparently, we’ve been getting entries already - car shows are big around here, I guess. We’re going to hold it on the incredibly large [...]

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I borrowed this book from my MIL the other day when we went down to see their new place: The Nine Parts of Desire. I couldn’t put it down while I was there, and it’s one of “those books.” You know the kind I mean - books you heard about a long time ago, wanted [...]

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Well, I’ve put an 8-hour day into screwing around trying to get something to work again.
So now, let’s talk about the house again, shall we? The “kitty garden” is growing fairly well, except that the lawn service guys keep cutting the hell out of it with their big string trimmer. I keep [...]

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