Today’s weather

Today's weather: November with a chance of "frog." That's frost + fog = frog!

Waxing Poetic

I was trying very hard to NOT write this but it was niggling at the edges of my brain so I decided to get it over with before I had nothing left to think with.

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An Autumn Drive

Driving in my pocket-rocket

the leaves fly up behind me

like sparks and flames.

The river I follow sparkles

despite the muddy brown water.

It's brown from the farmer's fields

but lovely in the sunlight.

It twists and turns like some

long fluid serpent.

A guardrail on the bridge protects me from the serpent

yet allows a view of it's winding edges.

It's waters are high for Autumn.

October was generous with rain.

I drive past a farm and

slow down to look at Belgian horses

whose owners have dressed them for the chill.

They look back at me.

Woo hoo!!

My car passed the State Patrol inspection and is now road-legal again! I am so happy!

We drove it to Findlay for the inspection and after it passed we got the new title, put the license plates back on it and went shopping!

Hurrah! I love my wee car!

(NOTE: To anybody who was reading my "Mod Lounge" blog, I've merged it with this blog and will only post here now. Thanks for reading!)

face frames

The kitchen cabinet project has been progressing rather slowly over the last several weeks.  Making the face frames has proven to be more tedious and time consuming than I had expected, it’s very “fiddly” work. (Yes, I know that I usually enjoy fiddly projects but this approaches being too much of a good thing!) As of this evening seven of the cabinets have their face frames installed and number eight’s pieces have all been milled & just need to be assembled.

The best part is that the cabinets are now looking a lot more like real cabinets and not just funky plywood boxes!  Maybe, just maybe there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel….

cheers - dj

Weekend road trip

Over the weekend, Dennis and I drove to the Home of the OSU Buckeyes, Columbus, Ohio to visit our good friends who live in North Columbus.

Saturday, after eating a wonderful lunch prepared by Peggy, we women went shopping while Dennis and Dave drove Italian cars. Dave has a Ferrari 308 just like Magnum PI used to have. He also has a Fiat X 1/9 like Dennis’ (but yellow) and they drove them around on the premise of burning off some stale gas so Dave could put fresh gas in them for the Winter. Sure guys. Whatever! Anyway, Peggy and I went to Filene’s Basement and Stein Mart. For dinner, we all met up again and dined at Bone Fish. Dennis had the Swordfish and I had Rainbow Trout with warm mango salsa. Both were excellent! We also had a nice Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio. After dinner the men trotted off to Best Buy to look at mini laptop computers while Peggy and I went to World Market for yet more shopping! We drove back to their place and settled on comfy furniture and watched some college football and talked.

Sunday we had a leisurely breakfast of coffee cake, which I had made, and coffee. We went to a local place for lunch. Some of us had breakfast type foods (omlettes and home fries) and some of us had calzones. Wonderful food! Then we parted company for, you guessed it, more shopping!! We were in the big city after all! The guys went back out to purchase a mini laptop for Dave and Peggy and I looked at baby stuff and women’s clothing. We went to Marshalls and Home Goods which is discounted home goods; crockery, cookware, furniture, linens, specialty food items, home decor.

By the time we arrived back at their home, it was time for us to head back North. We stopped in Ada, Ohio, home of Ohio Northern University (where Dennis was at university) for supper at Taco Bell and arrived home at 8:00 P.M.

We really enjoyed our visit with our good friends.

Why does time pass so quickly when you are having a good time?