giving thanks

Listening to Pat Buchanan on The Daily Show last night, I had flashbacks to the total garbage that some of my high school teachers included in their curriculum. Our sex ed was more of an ominous clinical threat than this guy’s teachings, but I still remember the teacher explaining that every night, he and his […]

Grandaddy says

“You shouldn’t have any trouble using your mother’s Sam’s card. Except for your hair, you two look exactly alike now.” I’m going to use starch on his drawers for that jab.

minor flood, major whine

Michael wrote that Knoxville got off easy in this past weekend’s rains. If he had spent the last day and a half listening to Amy complain about her school closing because of the flood he would up his inconvenience level. Doug’s poison everything has arrived and he won’t feel that is very minor by tomorrow. […]

marlboro woman

When I was 12, younger than Sarah, I claimed my ‘hangout’ as a Memphis skating rink and next door putt-putt/arcade. Until I got a job at 15, I was there most of every weekend and frequently after school. At some point early in this waste of time, a rep from a cigarette company stood in […]

fall tv in 5 word summaries

Boston Legal – Oedipal complex is kinda creepy. ER – Sam needed to kill him. Venture Brothers – Clones are not real bright. House – Funnier on vicodan and limping. LOST – Hurry up and come back!

new day, same topic

It’s gray and gloomy outside but the sky isn’t leaking. The bedroom forniture is balanced on two by fours, the shop vac sits silently and without the aid of any male Dutch children, the floor is dry. Doug dug (hee hee) until his body screamed “no more”. Then, he stripped down to his underwear, rinsed […]

are we having fun yet?

It is now pitch black outside and the heavy thunder indicates that the worst of this particular storm is getting closer. Doug is still digging in the trench. Amy has been crying for the past hour that her head hurts and despite the tylenol I gave her, she feels hot to the touch.

Another update so I can remember this moment

Doug is now digging a trench in the completely saturated soil while the rain pours down upon him. If he doesn’t get struck by lightning, twist an ankle in the slippery mud or suffocate in a mudslide, he is going to have a raging case of poison everything in exchange for all the vines he […]

updating to hide from the mess

Apparently Jimmy Buffet is the music to listen to while fighting back the water, because Doug has it cranked up loud enough to entertain the entire cove. Since every towel we own is now on the floor and completely soaked, Tommy suggests that we start using “shirts we don’t like very much”. Noah is grumbling […]