Category: In Which We Mock Our Husband

While I was Ubering through Chicago, Gary was surfing Amazon and purchasing telescopes, plural, yes, and also lenses and lens-carrying cases and telescope-carrying cases and telescope chairs for when the eyepiece is under the telescope and a mirrored piece that lets you mount a second phone to take a photo of what your navigating phone…

First day, first thing, I went to the Driehaus Museum to get a glimpse of how to decorate a Gilded Age house after your original house burns up in The Chicago Fire. (Answer: Lots of marble, lots of this new-fangled linoleum stuff on the walls, all walls made with a core of brick then a…

While the cat’s away the mice will play. (But first, speaking of cats, let me tell you about my first day of pet sitting. I love this cat, I’ve played with this cat for years. Cat emerged after I’d been there an hour, I made eye contact, cat hissed at me. We’ve made up since…

This month Gary went through an endoscopy. The nurse had to bellow at him to wake up, and Gary rolled over, blinked his eyes, smiled for the first time in months (!), and said, “I feel GREAT.” And he did feel great for about a day. Then his stress soared back to its usual four-alarm…

Gary saw my photos from the astronomy park and decided we needed a beginner telescope, and then, as he does, he went ALL IN and spent more money on the accessories that he did on the telescope. You may ask: does it have a thing where you say “Jupiter” and it pivots to Jupiter? No,…

In which Gary shows off two of his eighteen – 18 count them 18 -birdfeeders. That one’s a chickadee feeder. It’s been very successful. Lots of fat little chickadees. I see at least one a day. That springy thing gets filled up with shelled peanuts, and then the tree-dwelling birds or other creatures squeeze the…

Last night Gary and I began hearing a beep from the basement, like a smoke alarm beep, but quieter. Gary immediately said it was a bird cheeping or a cricket and to ignore it. At 3:30 a.m. I could no longer ignore it. I went all over that basement and I was only able to…

Gary got a good report from the dermatologist and is feeling better. I was not allowed to go with him to the doctor, but — if Gary is to be believed — the doctor says he looks great and he should keep doing what he’s doing. What he’s doing is living off protein shakes. But…

Gary woke up and came in to my room singing and dancing to the birthday song. Then he spoke to me for forty-five straight minutes about this hummingbird house he bought that he feels is too small for the hummingbirds. Gary: “One hummingbird couldn’t fit in there, much less two.” Me: “Why would there need…

We had a primary vote here today. Gary and I bat for the Democrat side. I think Republicans are great, they value the collective more than the individual, while I value the entire globe more than the collective. We were writing out how we’d vote, lest we forget, and I mentioned a friend had suggested…