downside of working at home:those few highly annoying coworkers in the office replaced with ubiquitous (on warm days) annoying cluster flies here in the house.
upside which doesn’t really balance out the downside: annoying coworkers cannot be vacuumed up with a hand vac, while cluster flies can be.
It’s a grey, foggy/frosty morning. Kate and I went to bed relatively early, after watching Babe (I’d seen it before, but Kate hadn’t) and having roasted celery-root and other root-vegetable soup, “1-year artichokes” (smaller and more tender than their usual 2-year cousins), two leftover popovers from the weekend, and some really tasty spatlese riesling [...]
Just came back from an Irish pub in Teele Square, where I watched the last several innings of the 7th game of the ALCS, as the Red Sox crushed the Yankees like a junebug beneath a stiletto heel on a flamenco dancer’s taut, poised foot. No castanets in reality, but you could hear them [...]
You know what’s annoying?
Cluster flies.
You know when cluster flies are the most annoying?
When they’re mostly dead, laying on the floor, and have only the energy to buzz their wings and make an irritatingly hard to locate whine on the floor.
Adjunct annoyance: why don’t my cats eat these damn things? I’d expected my [...]
I started the day walking down the road to help Lafayette pull up dead blueberry bush stumps. (what is it about days I go down there that make me want to write something about it?)
Took a couple of tries to remember the tricks of driving a tractor, especially since the Noda’s tractor is very [...]