We got some severe weather last night. I'm usually well prepared for bad weather, but this storm caught me by surprise. I knew there was...

I dread Dash's periodic bouts with diarrhea. They don't happen often, but when they do, it makes a horrible mess. We'll probably...

My goal is to accomplish at least one thing every day. It doesn't really matter what that thing is as long as it doesn't involve cle...

I finished getting my tax files organized today and took them over to my accountant. For the past several years this has been a somewhat dep...

It's hard to get used to Texas weather. It was eighty degrees this afternoon and I had the air conditioner running in both the house and...

The roof is leaking again. I definitely wasn't expecting this. It was a clear sunny day and there wasn't even that much water on the...

Apparently, there are younger people who belong to my gym after all. When I arrived this morning, there were about fifty people I'd neve...

I got a bill from my web hosting company today. I've been a good customer. So why was my bill 30% higher than it was three years ago? Th...

I must have slept better last night because I didn't wake up when Dash pooped in the bed. Luckily, one of us usually wakes up when this ...

Every once in a while I look at posts from previous years. Apparently not much changes on January 17. It's usually cold and rainy. I...

It was hard for me to get up this morning. Once again I didn't get enough sleep. I'd stayed up too late late watching an old black a...

I found myself driving all over town today in search of a Christmas ham. When I went to my favorite smokehouse, the guy behind the counter g...

I was optimistic when I got up this morning. The sky was clear. The temperature was warm. It seemed like a good day to fix the roof. Unfortu...

I had a feeling that things weren't going to go well today when we walked Dash in a heavy fog this morning. The fog was so thick that my...

I had a brief moment of panic this morning when I looked at the weather forecast and saw that there was a chance of rain tomorrow. Where wer...

When I woke up to go to the bathroom last night, I almost slipped in a puddle of water. Yup. A new leak had appeared. All the available buck...

"And now we wait," I thought as some severe weather rolled into town early this afternoon. I didn't have to wait long. In less...