Browsing the blog archives for May, 2008
Even before I got married, people had issues with my name. I’ve had folks misspell, mispronounce, and just plain misunderstand my name, and over the years, I’ve been pretty tolerant about the whole thing. After all, I figure, “Maren” is not exactly a common name, and neither is “Montalbano.” So I give folks a break [...]
I sang at a wedding today…it was a beautiful ceremony, lovely couple, gorgeous day. But after having gone through my own wedding so recently, I now notice all the things that could have gone better had the bride & groom (or maybe the wedding planner?) thought the details through just a little bit more. The [...]
I just knew it was the Ground Chuck! I caught him snacking on leftovers over in the compost pile. Hey, that’s my compost pile! Oh, wait, I’m not going to eat it anyway. And so I decided to take a video of his dastardly doings:
I’ve been fortunate enough these past few days to have a little more time on my hands than usual…so much so that I can actually spend time puttering about in the garden, as you can see from my previous post. A friend started too many tomato plants from seed (despite my warnings that there was [...]
In our household, we have all sorts of characters doing domestic chores: our dish fairy will miraculously do the dishes overnight; the laundry fairy will take the dirty clothes downstairs and put them in the washing machine; and our trash goblin makes sure the trash gets taken out to the curb. Today, though, I spent [...]