Oysterville Daybook Archives
Remembering Elmer Fudd
These days, with my very own cottontail kingdom multiplying like... well, you know... like rabbits under the south porch, my thoughts often revert to a childhood of Bugs Bunny cartoons. And, especially to Bugs's nemesis, Elmer Fudd, who often...
At 90, flexible has many meanings!
Last Thursday afternoon my New Landlord and Forever First Cousin Once Removed, Alex (Grandson of my Uncle and Godfather Willard Espy), arrived in Oysterville with the first U-Haul load of his worldly possessions. It was a fairly large truck towing...
Wow! Will wonders never cease!
I'm not sure if it's a source of hilarilty or a path to insanity to search for information on the internet. For sure the World Wide Web is NOT a reliable source of factual information. Today my quest was simple (I thought). Where are the...
If only what happens under the porch would…
...stay under the porch! Specifically, the proliferation of bunny rabbits. They seem to be increasing at geometrical proportions! It began (as such things always do) with two smallish (I thought) gray and white rabbits. They seemed to like the...
It could always be worse…
The house seems to be going through a bad patch. First the chimney (and we apparently aren't quite out of the woods on that yet...) Next, the pump -- I had a 6-horsepower pump and we upped it to a 6-1/2. Maybe a big mistake. Every time I flush...
In case I screwed up…
...which seems to happen all too often these days, and you didn't get an invitation to the Oysterville House Concert (here) on May 10th (Mother's Day), please consider this your invitation. Since I just sent out the email invitations a few hours...
Let’s talk about money…
Or is that one of those subjects that is under the heading of "Gauche" or "Taboo" for discussion? I'm really not sure anymore. We seem to bitch and moan about the billionaires and their hidden investment caches but AI (who we all know is the new...
Culling, Sorting, Organizing…but will it help?
If there's one thing we have plenty of in this house it is books. We have books going back to my great-grandfather's generation (a preponderance being Bibles.) We have an entire library of books collected and read by my grandparents and a corner...
Oh no!! The bunrabs are busted!
The bunnies are getting less skittish each day. Of course, they play Statues each time anyone comes through the gate, but they just wait patiently now; they don't immediately dash under the porch. However, today the Garden Girls came with a dozen...
“There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireplace.” Cicero
Friday Night marked the first time in nearly a year that we've had a fire in the library fireplace. It took that long to find a company that was willing and able to correct the problems in this 157-year-old chimney and fireplace. Although the...
Doncha hate it when that happens?
When I read Phil Allen's eulogy in the April 1st Observer written by his good friend David Campiche, my immediate thought was to straighten out the confusion in Phil's heritage. I wanted to clarify that Adelaide and Will Taylor were Phil's...
Bunnies + Leg o’ Lamb + Carrot Cake + A No-Frills Bonnet = An Easter to Remember
I was planning on a quiet Sunday as usual when I received an email query from Lynn Madigan -- "Are you around? I've made carrot cake and hot cross buns to share..." On receiving my affirmative reply, the offer soon expanded to a Leg of Lamb...