Team Salamander

Funny you should ask that. I was fifteen, once, enough years ago that I wince when I calculate back that far. Two-thirds of a lifetime ago, I was fifteen. Age fourteen was my perfect year. That was the year I was editor of the school newspaper, I was in accelerated math and English courses, was…

I took this picture of my garden on June 3, then kept forgetting to post it. The garden looks far different now. You can’t even see the cleome in the back at this point, but now it’s starting to really take off. The Canterbury Bells are on their last legs, though I’d read they’d keep…

Ziltoid was definitely a fifth instar in the last pictures. And he was a fifth instar on a mission. While I tried a couple of times yesterday to redirect Ziltie to a leaf or twig, he insisted on sitting on the inside of the glass bowl, making a little pile of webbing. Last night he…

Gads I’m tired. I was up until one this morning, cleaning and laundering and straightening up for Sunday’s guest. And yes, The Socialist helped. He did all the vacuuming, and a fair bit of the tidying. He also gave me the last piece of his Sara Lee chocolate cake (with chocolate icing). It would have…

I include this brief update because I know there is inherent humor in it, though I myself shall have to wait for the passage of time to find it. Sunday, I purchased Jelly Belly jelly beans. They were sugar-free, and fit right in with my diet. They’re also quite good. You’d never know they weren’t…

For some reason, it hasn’t bothered me until just now. But I’m cleaning up my desk now, getting ready to head to the doctor’s to get this lump on my back checked out, and suddenly I’m nervous about it. As if anything is going to get in the way of this charmed life of mine….