Pictur this: Max, Mim and our adult daughter Fae were shopping in a nearby city and went into a new Chick-fil-A for lunch. After placing our order Fae and Mim went into the bathroom. As Fae came out of the stall, the door was difficult to open and creaked loudly, badly. It was disconcerting and [...]
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Quick on Their Feet
Posted in Picture This, tagged bathroom, china, customers, drink, feet, four, girl, girls, guantanamo, loud, lunch, mexican food, new, order, panic, partition, straydog, tiny, young on August 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the works
Posted in Misc, Picture This, Spirituality and/or religion, tagged chastised, conversation, inspired, keeping up, kids, monthly, picture, polished, posted, sorry, Topics of Conversation on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
sorry we haven’t posted in a while. We are going to try to post at least once a month. We have been chastised by our kids for not keeping this up and inspired by them as well. We have 3 picture this in the works and 2 topics of conversation. We’ll get them polished up [...]
The Sweater and the Pillager
Posted in Picture This, tagged chihuahua, dinner, dog, groceries, house, knitting, muttering, needles, pillager, poles, princess, stairs, sweater, t-shirt, table, terrier, vikings, yarn on February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Picture this… After graduating from Navy boot camp around Thanksgiving our son was sent to Connecticut for his “A” school. He would be there for a year. Being a Colorado boy he was not prepared for the effects of humidity and cold combined, so when he called home and asked Mim to knit him a [...]
Shoe in hay
Posted in Picture This, tagged corral, finals, fun, hay, horse, late, mud, pitchfork, Sanchez, school, shoe, skirt, work on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I’m at work in Nebraska, away from home for an assignment and I get a call from Mim. I’m busy and can’t take the call so it goes to voice mail. Later I access the message and this is what I get from Mim with my editorials comments in parens: Okay, pictur this: I’m [...]
A Bedroom Conversation
Posted in Picture This, tagged bed, breath, dog, game over, liar, louder, meeting, noise, Ping, read, sleep, sound, spoiled, stressful, whistling, yell, you on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay…pictur this (and it happened just this way no matter what Mim says), Mim usually goes to bed before I do. Her routine is to read a bit then get her little dog, Ping, all situated and happy in her bed, which is on the floor by our bed (of course, this little dog isn’t [...]
The clock
Posted in Picture This, tagged alarm clock, bed, bug, California, clock, clockroach, digital camer, family, Idaho, kleenex, laugh, laughing, married, max, mim, minute, morning, panic, poser, roach, school, speechless, summer, time, travel trailer, water cup, zinger on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pictur this: I went to school relatively late in life, after I was married and had two kids (something I would not ordinarily recommend). While we lived in California, I got a seasonal job in Idaho with the organization that employed me after I graduated. So, one summer Mim and the kids were able to [...]
black dogs in the night
Posted in Picture This, tagged antibiotics, bed, big dog, black dogs, chihuahua, chihuahua-terrier, dental, dental work, Desi, dog kisses, dog licks, dogs, falling, fast, fun, game, gentle, heavy sleeper, hounds, humor, infection, intense, laughing, laughter, leap, little dog, loveable, mercy, night, night-blind, pain meds, Ping, root canal, stubborn on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As you know, I, Max, have been on the detail out of town during the weekdays. Well, Mim has been having some dental work done lately. On Monday, she had a root canal and was on some pain meds and had to go back on Wednesday for yet another root canal—two in one week. She [...]
