not-so-minor characters

This is the Hairy Beast that lives with us.  (Like the kids, I don’t want to compromise her privacy by revealing her true name.)  She is totally devoted to me and the crumbs that I drop.  She follows me around, hides under my feet–I am her mama, through no fault of my own.
Our first dog, [...]

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play

The guy who invented this:

and this:

died last month.  Hans Beck, aged 79.
Bow your heads, moms and dads, for a man of brilliance.
Boywonder and Bottled Lightning own the above systems and a great many of their accoutrements.  Freckles McYoungest had an American Doll instead.  What a mistake.  I shudder to think of the fracas that is [...]

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1T

I have been chastised.

By Bottled Lightning and Freckles McYoungest.  (Boywonder doesn’t give a flyin’ monkey butt.)

About my language. No, not the %&**@#!! kind.  They’re fine with that.  It’s text slang.  Apparently, you have to have a license to use it, and there’s an age criteria.  Under 30.
Things like “K” instead of okay.
Squee.
Prolly.
I guess those words [...]

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…from amarillo and abilene…

I have returned from taking Bottled Lightning back to school. 
If you’re going to be driving through the Texas panhandle on I-40, here’s a few tips:
1. Have an air conditioner.
2. If you don’t have an air conditioner, don’t go in August.
But DO go.  There are some really iconic stops on either side of Amarillo. 
On a long trip, the four [...]

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moving target

My daughter, Bottled Lightning is home.
She spent a month in the Land of the Rampant Cow and Pungent Streets.
India, that is.
Bottled Lightning is not your typical middle child.  She always has a goal,  an adventure or a cause that she’s working on.
I’ve often wondered if she was switched at birth.
Even when she was a child, [...]

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