No time like the present

Historic lows in the home loan market are driving thousands of people to refinance their homes. After a long time on hold, that includes me. When we bought our house in October 1999, we got in at a mortgage interest rate of 7.75%. That wasn’t bad in the grand...

Memorial Day soccer match

Memorial Day A litany of ailments can’t keep me off the pitch or stop me from whining. Sleeping is one way to pass the afternoon and not a bad one when you feel as lousy as I do. The headcold or flu or SARS or whatever the bug is seems to be persisting at a...

A spinning circus of Lillys

Christine goes out, Bernard and Liz come in. Christine, Erin’s sister, has been helping us on the home front since she arrived last Tuesday. Having her here has been a godsend. She’s tackled every household task imaginable (including a few I didn’t...

Cold and flu season

Why oh why am I so suseptible to colds? I deserve better, but I never seem to get what I deserve. Or do I and I just don’t know it? The sore throat started coming on last night. While Erin and Christine went shopping (and picked up items priced in the Deal of...

The return of the king

I came back from the Rose City just in time to hear 91 people get confirmed in a Catholic church. The next day Joe and I again tackled the nursery. No linkage whatsoever except that I was there, and, oh yeah, this is my web site. My business in Portland concluded for...