Tag: vacation
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vacation tips #1
> Carefully research who you hire to provide airport transport, water plants inside & out, check frig functioning & a.c., etc. Because: It should have dawned on me the potential pitfalls of my choice of facilitator as the chauffeur got lost finding the small airport 15 minutes away. During this delayed airport arrival time, an…
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under the dome
I’ve been truly surprised to hear from several readers awaiting more of my missives on life as I experience it. Here’s the best excuse I can come up with — In case you haven’t heard, we here in the southwest are trapped by a Heat Dome, reminiscent of the TV series Under the Dome (CBS,…
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olio
[meaning #2: a miscellaneous collection of things] How did Erma Bombeck do it? Come up with creative, entertaining, humorous columns five days a week, for decades. I have tried to commit to writing twice weekly, never devolving into boringness, not lapsing into “woe is me,” nor becoming preachy with my cultural observations. I have collected…
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you know it’s time for a vacation when……
…. your doorbell rings at 10 p.m., to be told you left your garage door open– did I really forget to close it after I brought my groceries in that morning? …. you hear weird water noises in your bathrooms– the toilets are functioning properly– you apply the, “if I just ignore it, it’ll go…