Bad Poetry

Ask me a question, I’ll tell you no lays.

I like to make up ditties, on that you can rely,But how to tell the difference between words “lay” and “lie”? It can be complicated,Not sure I can clarify.But since nobody’s asked me to,Ah, what the hell.I’ll try. A tablecloth can’t tell a LIE but is LAID upon a table.Some other things that can be… Continue reading Ask me a question, I’ll tell you no lays.

Remuddled Living

There Are Worse Things Than Getting Into Hot Water

Until we replaced it late last year, our old boiler clunked along, heating our home semi-sufficiently, not at all efficiently, and quite expensively. In its declining years, we became accustomed to living with sporadic hot water delivery from a system that ran on too much oil, sheer ugliness, and habit. As a result simple things… Continue reading There Are Worse Things Than Getting Into Hot Water

Ain't Nobody Got Time For That · Bad Poetry

Things I Will Put Up Your Ass If You Don’t STFU

I think it’s only fair to say That things are not so great today So now that I have made that clear There’s something else you need to hear Your nonsense, drivel, and BS Will light me up, I must confess So curb your smack, your jibes, your sass Your inane posts, your lack of… Continue reading Things I Will Put Up Your Ass If You Don’t STFU

Housework and Working On The House: 2 Entirely Different Things · Share-Cropping

(Almost) Every Now and (a) Then

iShared in a previous post the concept of online Share-Cropping–the framing of photos in such a way as to convey all the #winning you’ve got going on in spite of the “big picture” conveying a more complete and #unwinning truth. To wit: Every year I post pictures of our freshly re-assembled screened porch. They are,… Continue reading (Almost) Every Now and (a) Then