Tim and Jen Live Here

I love this holiday. I’ve got flashing orange rice lights and a huge spider in my living room window (which is open because it’s still 55 degrees in Michigan at nearly 11pm). We had roughly 40 trick-or-treaters this year, which was pretty good for our neighborhood. There were a couple kids who just [...]

I was driving home today through mixed rain and freezing rain thinking, “It’s October 27! Way too early for solid precipitation!” Then I came through the back end of the storm (into the bright side, if you will) and saw in my rear view mirror the most brilliant and crisp rainbow that I have ever [...]

with my new car. Isn’t she beautiful? I’m seriously ready to make a commitment. Like, till death do us part. Her death, of course, as I am planning to outlive even a Volvo. In the fall of 2001 we bought my previous car - a Mercury Sable wagon. It [...]

Last weekend I noticed a preying mantis climbing up the garage trim, around 11am on Sunday. She (I assume she, because I assume mating has happened for the season, so most male mantises are currently headless) stayed on the garage trim, within a 2-foot area. She was there Monday. Kind of weird. [...]

The words in pictures aren’t really relevant to anything, but I’ve [...]