About five weeks ago my external CD/DVD drive randomly stopped working.  I discovered in the morning one day when I was in a tremendous rush to burn a CD to use at a music class that I teach.  The drive wouldn’t read the CD no matter what I tried.  It…

Mr. TOF and I were reading a children’s picture  book.  At the end of the book, a mean and nasty Rat repented of his thieving ways and spent the rest of his life sweeping in a cake shop. Me:  If your job was sweeping every day, where would you want…

Someone, and I’m not really actually sure who, managed to slice through the edge of a feather pillow with a fingernail clipper. You can about imagine the glorious mess. Classic. Luckily, YaYa could be bribed with a steep payment to do a patch-up job, and I still have a pillow…

It was crazy hot on Friday.  Ninety degrees out of absolutely nowhere.  Hot enough to make me want to crawl out of my skin.  It’s never hot like that next to Lake Superior in May.  In fact, the Monday before it was barely 40 degrees.  We could hardly function.  In…

I zoomed around the corner on Friday afternoon and found this lovely lady.  Since the cello arrived in the house a 1.25 years ago, she’s often tricked people into believing that a curvy little person is standing at the bottom of the stairs or against a wall.  The case is…

He was worried, very worried, about his checkup at the doctor’s office because he knew that some shots were going to be in order so that he could be declared ready for kindergarten next year.  For days he kept an informal, nervous countdown of dread until the appointed time came.…

It’s running season here.  YaYa is at track practice a few days each week, specializing in the mile race.  She’s always liked long distance running. The Banana and Mr. SP have been going to running club at their school to train for the Cougar Chase 5K race coming up in…