animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

finally

Despite being off yesterday, I took today off to enjoy the nice weather. Yesterday was full of painting the bathroom, shopping at Conzatti’s, a trip to the vet, and making cookies, so I was not able to get outside, as much as I would have liked to. Let’s start with …

gwendy’s button box

This novella, written by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, was a good palate cleanser after reading that last book of short stories. It had a weird plot that I’m not even going to try to explain, but I will tell you that it was a quick and compelling read. My …

lewis black

Brian, Jake, and I went to see Lewis Black at The Palace Theater last night. It was a lot of fun. It was Jake’s first stand-up experience and I think he liked it. For that matter, it was only the 3rd one for me and Brian, so Jake’s ahead of …

poe’s children

This was a compilation of short stories put together by Peter Straub. There were really only a few that I liked (and two of those were written by Stephen King and Joe Hill, and I had already read them before). Thanks to this book, I’m now behind on my reading …

strike 2

My washing machine errored again today. That fix didn’t last very long–eight days to be exact. Brian’s going to call them again in the morning, but I think it’s time to start researching lemon laws.