If you are coming here from PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, welcome! If you stick around, I’m sure you’ll find plenty of passive-aggressivity, but I am Southern, so it’s actually quite charming! Do stick around, and don’t mind the cat making biscuits on your crotch.
Because the flowers get all the attention but the leaves can be sexy as hell too.
As I watched my mom look over the orchestra of plants she had been nursing for years and years, choosing which ones to pass on to me, I realized that she is passing a torch to me.
I pulled this video for the song (“The Bunker” by Beirut) but then realized the video is pretty cool too. I wish I could paint.
It occurs to me that some day she might decide to come read T&G. She knows it exists and has for years, and I think she may have seen it a time or two. But I don’t think she reads it regularly. She has said before that she would just as soon let me have my little private internet corner. Now that we have gifted her with a portable computer, I feel like it may…
Monday night I came home with a hatch full of Turner-grown greenery, gifted to me by my mom, who just keeps finding things she wants me to try in my yard. I went over all the special instructions in my head (put this in dirt as soon as you get home, apply some rootone to this but shake off the excess before planting, the seeds in this bag will mold if they get any prolonged…
My parents’ goofy ol’ German shepherd Timber got knocked up somehow a few months back, which my parents realized mere days before she gave birth to two widdle bitty baby puppies squeeeeeeee. Oh god, sorry. No, no I’m not sorry. I am FREAKING SQUEEING ALL OVER MYSELF GOOD GOD PUPPIIIEEEEEES!! I got to meet Daisy Mae and Teddy Bear — sisters, despite how Teddy’s got a boyish name and face — this weekend for the…
It’s a rainy morning here in scenic Saltillo, Tenn. Bill Engvall’s funny-video show is on the TV and dad’s in the recliner snoring. Mom’s napping in bed. Yesterday we gave my mom a laptop for Mother’s Day, which she was so excited and surprised about. She and Dad have had the same old Dell desktop since about 2001. They’ve done no operating system or RAM upgrades in the intervening years, so you can sort of…
I should really stop redesigning my blog at 4 in the morning, but I can’t help it! I was checking up on all the Memphis blogs today — clicking through, not using my reader — when I noticed the lovely Ms. Lemonslush‘s snazzy theme and got serious theme envy. It is rare that I find a WordPress theme that I really, really like. And yet Bueno seems to be a solid, well-built, FREE theme with…
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