December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow
covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can
there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the
best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and
felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks.
This afternoon the snow plow came along and covered up the sidewalks
and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect
life.

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a

The other night I was invited out for a night with "the girls."
I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!"
Well, the hours passed and the champagne was going down way too
easy.

Around 3 a.m., drunk as a skunk, I headed for home. Just as I
got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and
cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing he'd probably wake up, I
cuckooed another 9 times.

I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted
solution (even when smashed), in order to escape a possible conflict
with him.

Harry was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught
recently after fighting it for three hours.

Bill interrupted the story saying, "I saw the picture
you took of that fish. You're lucky if it even weighed
10 pounds."

Harry replied, "Well . . . a fish can lose an awful
lot of weight during three hours of fighting."

I just got this e-mail from my mom. I think she meant to send me a
blonde joke (she's very blonde). However, in her blondness, she put
the body of the e-mail into the subject line, and you can see below
where it was cut off...I'm still laughing out loud, because I think
this is funnier than any blonde joke I've seen. And no, I don't think
she did this on purpose. She's not very e-mail savvy, and she's done
this twice before with regular e-mails.

From: xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2001 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxx