Last year, I wrote about my habit, started in Chicago, of making a list of must-dos for summer as a way of celebrating the season. As tomorrow marks the official beginning of summer and the summer solstice, I’m busy finalizing the Summer of 2012 list. There are the staples, of course, like pitchers of pink […]
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Natural Pest Control
I wasn’t initially planning on showing the pictures I’m about to show, figuring many of you might be a tad squeamish about these sorts of things. However, based on some of the reactions to a post a while back about my deck geckos and to last week’s post about crabs in my house, reactions I’d […]
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Crabs Are in the House
Crabs are in the house, folks. Literally. As in, in my house. This is one of those “never happened in Chicago†things. And if you had told me 10 years or more ago that someday undomesticated crabs would, in fact, be in my house? I honestly have no clue how I would have reacted. I […]
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In Other Entirely Unrelated News
1. School’s been out for a few days now. The small people are basking in the radiance of the unstructured life and going to great lengths to get on their siblings’ nerves, all in pursuit of entertainment. I love it. 2. Remember my new appliance nightmare that began last fall? Well, it’s still going, and […]
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There Once Was an Island Boy
There once was a boy who lived on an island, mainly because his parents dragged him there when he was two and was too young to have a say or opinion in the matter. But, as he grew older, he decided he was not only okay with it, but really liked it, although he wouldn’t […]
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The Club 400
Memorial Day weekend, amid all the beach festivities, the Island family made an impressive purchase. We pondered, brow-rubbed, head-scratched and kicked the dirt around a little, and finally, after securing a family consensus, we done bought ourselves some watercraft. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now the proud owners of a Club 400. For all of […]