This weekend has kicked our asses. 
Actually, the punishment started on Thursday when my mom came to watch the girls.  I spent the entire afternoon on a 2-story tall ladder painting the chimney.  Did you know if you are above the roof level, it is really, really hot?  And that standing on the next-to-the-top rung of a […]

I talked to Mr. Neighbor today. 
They didn’t end up keeping the dog!!!!!!  It is Gone GONE GONE!!
Needless to say, I am thrilled.  I am so happy, I don’t even care that Mrs. Neighbor is clearly still very pissed and not speaking to us. 
It is such a relief to let the girls play in the yard […]

Last weekend, Mr. A swore he heard a mouse in our kitchen. 
Because we live on a kind of wooded lot, this is not that surprising.  We usually get a few mice each fall, but every once in a while one of the greedy little bastards will sneak in during other parts of the year.
I still wasn’t […]

As of a conversation with Mrs. Neighbor this morning, they intend to keep the dog. 
I also plan to pursue every possible legal way to force them to obey the local vicious dog ordinance.  They obviously made this decision with no regard to our feelings (or finances because this might wreck our property value), so I […]

I don’t know if other people do this, but from time to time I find myself in the middle of an emotional, somewhat irrational fit.  You know, the kind where you can kind of float outside your body and think “Self, you are really getting too carried away.  You should dial it back a little.  […]