Hell’s Half Acre

It’s a good thing that Earth Hour starts after Prarie Home ends because Saturday would not be Saturday without our weekly dosage of Prarie Home Companion. We’re planning on heading to Jan Ten for a bonfire, fireworks and moonmallows.
I’m out of bed (and thus the posting will cease) after too many days of declining [...]

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Annie tagged me and for once I’ll do it.
What Was I Doing 10 Years Ago? Let’s see…2008-10 would be 1998.  Jesse was 4, Pike was 2 and Sissy was yet to come.  I was probably pestering Jamie about having Sissy.  I would have been working, so working part-time and pestering Jamie about having unprotected sex.  [...]

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Coming to a city near you.
More information for Mexico,
¿Qué significa Earth Hour o La Hora del Planeta?
El 29 de marzo del 2008, millones de personas alrededor del mundo se unirán para “apagar las luces” por el lapso de una hora para demostrar su preocupación sobre el cambio climático. La Hora del Planeta demostrara que trabajando [...]

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I hate them, but really liked this one. Feel free to answer on your own blog (but leave me a link so I can read it) or answer in comments. If nothing else, free blog material!
What are your top 3 favorite foods?
Coffee, rajas (those strips of pickled jalapeños, carrots and [...]

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(use the Spanish pronunciation; “eeesh cafe”)
It is a really cute name for a coffee house as down here, “X” followed by “c” results in the “eeesh” sound and many words start with “X” (Mayan words). Maybe you had to be there.

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The good news is that we’re still standing. The bad news is that someone lost their roof. The good news is they had insurance and had just packed up (and away from their home) all their personal property. The bad news is that the original problem (un-insulated wires too close to palapa [...]

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We got up at the asscrack of dawn (EIGHT AM for the family, I’ve begun a cycle of insomnia and was up before five) and headed out to Cobá and Tulum ruins and then to Tulum beach to show the relatives the historical side of Quintana Roo. It only took us two hours to [...]

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Chrissy must have this as her mantra.  We didn’t kill her by sticking her kids on a sidewalk while waiting for the car to be fixed.  We didn’t kill her by putting her on a ferry that used hydroplaning as a method to park big rigs.  We didn’t kill her by feeding her rotten chicken.  [...]

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A funny thing happened on the way to pick up my sister. Backing up, a funny thing happened with my monthly cycle which is neither funny nor a thing, but after numerous ultrasounds and blood tests we’re going to try hormones and then maybe a biopsy of the uterus. But as usual, I’m [...]

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