editorials by Marty Racheter
Always a Good Time! State Fair 2010 The State Fair is a success if you come home with something you didn't have before or ate something you haven't eaten before - and are totally pooped.
Flood Update: Three Weeks From Disaster
Stuck in the Wall I played that over in my mind enough times that I finally just gave it up...took a trip home to make sure she wasn't stuck in the walls somewhere.
Demo Crew - Does This Ever End?
Mitigator - Sounds a Lot Like Terminator He called this his "demo" team, and when I asked just what that meant, fearing the worst, he said "demolition." Life as I had known it would not be returning anytime soon.
I Need an Adjustment! Jon told my neighbor not to walk downstairs barefoot. That's an interesting comment, since we have all been upstairs and down, inside and out, on and off soaked carpets and soaked concrete, tracking whatever's there all over the rest of our world, whether barefoot or not. All three of us have cats, too, and those little paws have been everywhere, including the litter box and the bed.
Do Things Always Get Worse Before They Get Better? the laminate bathroom flooring was bulging a little at the seams, and, with permission of course, he pried one up, destroying it in the process because it was wet. That floor is ruined.
No Time to Work, Either - ...I am just not sure, had I relaid it, that I would ever have wanted to be in my own home again, let alone sleep in the lower level.
Dealing With Stress - or Not! "We're a society swimming in anger, always about to snap" - nope, can't say I have enough energy for all that. (See Fatigue) And it's not anger I've been swimming in.
No Time to Cry ...When the boys wanted to put my bed...in the garage I said no...that's not where I wanted to sleep or dress [when it] isn't heated, and winter is only four months away.
Walking on Water "...this can't be happening!" said half my brain, while my feet were sending squish-squish signals to the other half...
Toilet Water, by Marty Racheter
Have you ever shaved a cat?
...don't cross me today - I'm cranky.
Waste and Abuse taxpayers are sick and tired of getting stuck for the cost of the waste and abuse of a self-perpetuating political machine that "step by step, inch by inch" (a phrase learned from a childhood of watching The Three Stooges which accounts for my utter hatred of slapstick today) is robbing and destroying this country.
Victoria's Secret - In the dressing room, I couldn't even hook them. And there was more of me that should have been in the bra that wasn't. Also, I was having trouble breathing.
I Love This Winter I am in there head first, feet dangling...trying to push stuff around with my hands, a fat little package fighting my way in. (Feet first would have been preferable, but I didn't want to fall out... and have someone call the EMTs...)
How Hard It Is - ...my son opened his bedroom door and suggested I "do something" with the cat. Like what? Tie her up? He is the one whose return reawakened the child in her once she was already tucked in for the night.
Intrigued by the letter to the editor on this website...stating that the "non-partisan Pew Center ranked Iowa the second best managed state in the nation," ... I went hunting.
Mother to the Core
The further Christmas adventures of a traveling young man.
Probation We had a cat once, when I was a child. Her name was Puff, and she was entirely white...I think we probably asked for a dog and got a cat.
Christmas is when you get here, Son...Late Thursday night he called, worn, defeated, unable to make this Los Angeles to Pella, Iowa journey straight through, defeated by the 200-mile-swath of winter rage stretching from Canada to Texas that even a young man’s determination couldn’t penetrate. “I can’t make it home for Christmas, Mom,” he said...
The Eighth Day of the Week Growing up in urban Michigan just twenty miles north of Detroit, I do not ever recall having a snow day from school...I dutifully called in to work though, and ... when told the boss couldn't even make it in, I quickly agreed it simply was not wise to come in.
