Moose and Ink

This is how productive I am today.  Rather than do anything like writing or brain storming or or doing the laundry or, hell, even playing a computer game, I am instead taking pictures of a cat under a blanket. Yeah, it’s one of those Saturdays.

A conversation with several friends this afternoon. Avery : are you /sure/ you want that honey? Me :   Okay. I’m gonna see that in my sleep tonight, thanks. Jon :  Middle of the night, gonna call Matt and go “Hey, got any honey?” just to freak him out Zamenhof :…

Any afternoon spent hiking through the snow across prairie and field, through woods and over fences, is a good afternoon in my book.

Winter showed up this week and announced its arrival by dumping 14 inches of snow which it then promptly blew around with 30 – 45 mph winds.  I can’t say I’m terribly fond of this guest’s method of arrival, but he’s here to stay.  Here at the Hughes household, we…

As of midnight on December 29th, the Hughes family will no longer have television (or in our case, Dish Network).  Why? Well, the plain and simple of it is that we don’t watch television.  We don’t watch news (national or local), we don’t watch sitcoms or reality television (thank God),…

Dear Neighbor: If your Christmas light configuration causes seizures or can be used in landing aircraft or is personally responsible for requiring two new nuclear power plants to be installed, you might want to think about toning it down. Thank you.

In honor of Thanksgiving, I give you the greatest Thanksgiving television episode ever and one of the greatest quotes: “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” http://sa.kewego.com/swf/p3/epix.swf WKRP Turkey Drop