Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Three times today I got this call from James asking if we had (fill in the blank) and if he could borrow some. Admittedly one of those times was actually something for Kathey, but I started wondering what was up. My question was answered when we got to the Lansberry house and found the table [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 30th, 2006 1 Comment »
 A gardening haiku from some yard work we were doing yesterday:
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clumps of earth showering down from clouds of rootletsÂÂ
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on Aug 29th, 2006 2 Comments »
 This was a haiku that I particularly had in mind when I mentioned mediocre haiku. But then when I decided to post it, I realized that I could make it better… Maybe not far above mediocre, but in the acceptable range, I think.
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blue flame glowing under a white kettleÂÂ
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
 Last night we congregated at the Lansberry abode to perform scientific taste tests to ascertain if Pottstown bratwurst were better than Alwan’s or if it was the other way ’round. Admittedly, the Pottstown brats may have been a little over-cooked, but we still all agreed that we like the Alwans brats better. They have [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
 Now, as soon as I start trying to write down the highlights of last week in an effort to catch you up on all the stuff you haven’t been reading because I haven’t been writing it, I’m sure I will promptly forget most of the interesting events. Still, there are two things that stand out [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Today’s haiku:
unwritten haiku whisper around me if I would stop to listen
It’s been a long time since the last haiku. I will try to start posting them regularly again next week.
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 24th, 2006 4 Comments »
One of the super nice things about living this close to the Lansberry’s is that it makes dinner at their house much easier. We also moved dinner to Wednesday so that we don’t have to worry about vacuuming Seth’s workplace (our second job) on the day we have dinner. So instead of getting the little [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Justice is doing fine after his surgery today. His surgery was later than anticipated because the surgeon had to do an emergency surgery, but that just means Seth and Crystal are more worn out than they expected. Justice came home smiling, ate some lunch and then took a nap. He seems in cheery spirits though [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
On Saturday, August 19, Justice had officially been alive for one whole year. I look back on this past year and, man, it has been a doozy. Especially for Justice. And the fun isn’t over yet because tomorrow he goes in to have surgery done on his other hernia. Did I mention he another hernia? [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 17th, 2006 5 Comments »
Ladies and gentlemen, the dog has been named. And when I tell you the name please know that it was not I who named this dog. Crystal is responsible for the naming of this poor, unfortunate dog. We wanted something ironic so Seth and I were batting around names like Cerberus or Medusa or maybe [...]