Ya Got It???

Double Hemlock with a twist please.

On the Road to Disaster

Ya’ got it???
Ya got it? That’s the question I heard from THREE helpful male employees of Ollie’s while struggling to carry an 8-foot carpet through the aisles, up to the cash register, and finally out to my car last week. The dog had peed on the front hall carpet once again. So, off to Ollie’s Discount Store I drove to just replace the thing rather than scrub and attempt to deodorize it as usual. I found the perfect 8′ round, wool, traditional Wilton – under no less than

Zombies Not Allowed To Eat At Mall!
That’s it. I’ve had it. I have HAAAAADDDDDD it! This is what my sister-in-law Joan says when she’s ticked off. You can tell she’s boiling by the drawn out “haaaaddd.” And you’d best get out of the way; she’s a thrower! Well, today, I’ve had it. I’ve haaaaaaadddddddddd it. Here’s why: In this morning&

Double Hemlock with a Twist Please
Hemlock!! Yummy.Get your needles, your feeding tubes, and your ventilator hose off and out of my damned body. I have no intention of dying in a hospital hooked up to every blinking, beeping machine invented in the last century. Just give me a big ol’ supply of morphine patches and sleeping pills and send me back to my beautiful farm to die in peace! Euthanasia is not a dirty word. Just say it out loud a few times. See how nicely it rolls off the tongue? It almost s

On the road to disaster
I’m not really ranting today. I’ve calmed down. But I was certainly ranting yesterday each time I thought I had lost a filling due to hitting a pothole while making my way home from DC on I-95. So, before I take my car in to have the tires re-aligned, I’m going to post my letter to the editor as my Indignet post today. Hope it meets with your approval – even though it is not my typical exasperated venting. Dear Editor- Since when did public safety become a libera

Save Your Clams. And Your Fingers.
Image courtesy of T3.com/imagesWhat in heaven’s name are manufacturers thinking when they hermetically seal (entomb) their products in 20 mil layers of environmentally damaging polyvinyl chloride (PVC) that is simply impossible to open without some sort of heavy industrial implement? First, I tried scissors. Fiskars no less. Granted, it was a small pair more suitable to trimming hedges, but they were not up to the task of