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A small but passable life.

by Neogy Titwhistle

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December 01, 2017

Another quest completed.

A day of errands started with taking Mom to her dentist. After that we went to Denny’s for lunch. Mom got to use her AARP 15% discount. We had enough food left to box up and take home. Next stop ...


November 24, 2017

Maybe today?

Mom and I were invited out to Thanksgiving dinner by my cousin and his wife. It was a small restaurant buried in the suburbs about a dozen exits west on the freeway. It was a nice, rather small v...


November 21, 2017

A suppressed urge!

I really dread going anywhere, but yesterday turned out fairly decent. Mom and I went to Tru Value. No quarter round. We went to Ace Hardware. I went in while Mom went next door to Dollar General...


November 20, 2017

A whole week?

It’s been a week since I’ve scribbled anything. I’ve been lying poolside, listening to NPR, and I finally finished that novel that I found in the little RV park library. “The Time Traveler’s Wife...


November 14, 2017

An errand day.

Saturday was Veteran’s Day. Mom didn’t make it to the flag raising. I basically took that whole day off by lying down and listening to the radio and napping. Yeah, I’m a veteran. A veteran of th...


November 10, 2017

Mis-read, again.

I’ve never said I was a writer. Choice of words. Syntax. Grammar rules. You know, all that stuff. I mean to say something meaningful and it sometimes comes out saying something else. I could just...


November 09, 2017

Tale of the toolbox.

The idea was years in the planning. When I was living in Daughter’s attic we hatched a plan to clean up the back porch. The idea was to by a huge toolbox on casters and consolidate all the little...


November 08, 2017

Another new routine?

Has it already been a year since America vomited up this so-called president? A little over one thousand days left to survive the stupidity. We may make it. Someone I’ve been reading here and bef...


I was up at my usual 8am this morning. It was 60.2 degrees in here with the windows open. Too nice! While I drank my morning coffee I swapped Moms scooter batteries with the two extra batteries ...


November 06, 2017

Winding down.

After my shave and shower yesterday I retired to my little room for a great afternoon nap. And The Moth Radio Hour on NPR. After leftovers for dinner I retired once more to my little room to watc...


November 04, 2017

A one week visit.

Daughter and Boyfriend finally arrived Saturday about noon. I had been receiving text updates on their progress and had been stalling Mom for over an hour as she was wanting to go out somewhere f...


October 28, 2017

Surprise for Grandma?

I finished reading “Sleeping Beauties” by Stephen and Owen King. It was a nice 700 page novel that took me a while to read because I kept getting interrupted. But alas, that is the price one pays...


October 20, 2017

My little space.

Is it really the 19th already? Time really does fly when I’m into a new novel and the event free routine is zinging right along. My “latest entry” was the 13th, nearly a week ago. The windows are...


October 14, 2017

Am I annoying?

Yesterday was more errands. First stop was the radiology place. Second stop was the primary doc for a script renewal. Third stop was a new (to me) little hole in the wall eatery where we had lunc...


October 11, 2017

The highest rank?

Yesterday Mom wanted her hair done. So off to Nikki’s we went. (A nice hug from Nikki for bringing Mom in?) After that Mom wanted to go to the fabric store. While she was in there I went next doo...


October 09, 2017

POOF?

Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples Day. Day One of the Greatest Genocide in human history? Anyway, this is what I always think of on this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1...


October 07, 2017

I was right, again.

I’m usually right. Well, I’m right a lot of the time. This may come from the fact that I have time to sit and think through things a fair bit. Yesterday we went and looked at the scooter. Mom tes...


October 06, 2017

Here we go again.

Evening before last, the day I re-surfaced the carport, I made chicken enchiladas. A simple recipe. Boil and then cut up two chicken breasts. Mix up the chicken, a can of cream of chicken soup, a...


October 05, 2017

Always remember.

Yesterday was busier than most. I woke up at the usual time. Had two cups of coffee while finishing up clearing crap off the carport and porch. I went to the grocery store with a fistful of coupo...


October 03, 2017

So yeah.

It’s a maybe not. 100 degrees is predicted for both Saturday and Sunday. I had to put aside the Lewis & Clark journals for a bit. I’m kinda getting annoyed with their attitude. It’s like if ...


October 02, 2017

Just saying.

Yesterday it was 100 degrees. Maybe that will be the last 100 degree day for the year, maybe not. A definition is called for here. Terrorist: 1. a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidati...


September 30, 2017

TV online.

I’m so tired of people calling Trump a piece of shit. It’s an insult to shit. Shit has uses. Trump is useless. Yesterday was Mom’s nail appointment at Walmart. So, that meant I could wander aroun...


September 28, 2017

As always.

The nights are still cool enough to sleep with open windows and the A/C off. But the days are forecast to return to the upper nineties for a week or so. November 8, 1805. Lewis & Clark have r...


September 24, 2017

Ignorance unbound.

First, the weather. The A/C has been turned off and the windows opened for two nights in a row now. It was sixty-five degrees in here this morning when I woke up. The daytime highs haven’t reache...


September 22, 2017

Fall!

Today may the first day since I’d arrived on May 1st that the daytime temperature won’t rise above ninety degrees. We’ll see. October 19th, 1805- Lewis and Clark are on the Western side of the c...


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