animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

happy weird birthday

Yesterday Jake turned 20! Unlike past years where we celebrated with extended family, this one was just the three of us (obviously, due to the current state of the world). I ordered some takeout from Flair of Country for supper and made a cake. We ate and then Jake opened …

waco

Like I said before, I’m watching everything. This was a pretty good limited series about the Waco siege back in the 1990s. I felt like the series was pretty sympathetic to the cult leader, David Koresh. But, the end result of what the government did there was rather terrible, so …

groceries

I made my first trip for groceries since March on Thursday night. Ironically, my intent was to stay home until things got under control, but Cambria County has had an increase in cases in the past week and a half. The total counts are still pretty low (but we all …

crumbled

Last fall, I noticed that the side porch was crumbling a bit. I didn’t have time to get to it, so it had to wait for spring. Finally, last weekend, I started on the project. After removing all of the loose materials, it looked much, much worse than anticipated (these …

chernobyl

I’m watching everything because there’s nothing else to do. This was a pretty great miniseries on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I did find the English accents to be a bit distracting at first. I couldn’t figure out why they had a bunch of people from the UK working at a …