Carrie thinks she got a day off because she wasn’t repairing something around the house and she got to do something she likes. But creating a stained glass replacement for a closet window would still be “work” on my list. Luckily for me, she likes making stained glass windows. Carrie finished the designs for both […]

At least twice in previous stories about our new house, I’ve mentioned the fishpond. Tucked up against the Office, about 15 feet outside the backdoor of the house, is a 100 gallon fishpond that the previous owners had installed. It is little more than a plastic liner set in a dusty hole in the ground […]

We just settled into our spot at the Long Beach Blues Festival when we heard our neighbors chide Paul for having me work on “homework” at the festival. Misinterpreting our relationship, perhaps due to the 20 year difference in our age being exaggerated by Paul’s looking older than he is and my looking younger, they […]