Lynne Simpson

Y’know, if the HGTV people are coming over to shoot a bunch of footage in that kitchen you refer to as your pride and joy, you may want to wipe the enormous streaks off your stainless steel fridge. Stuff like that is particularly glaring in high def. :-) I thought it was a trick of [...]

Unattended pools and critters just don’t mix. We’ve both been worried about one of the neighborhood cats getting trapped in our pool, but we just hadn’t gotten around to installing the Skamper Ramp I bought a few months ago. When I heard about how a fellow FanLit alum tragically lost her pet to drowning, I [...]

John and I have been doing some running in the pool as well as just plain swimming, and I noticed recently that a vortex would start forming after he’d run only three or four laps in the shallow end. If I’m treading water under the diving board while he’s running, it’s all I can do [...]

No, it’s not some new puzzle or computer game or TV show on History/History International. (Well, I am somewhat addicted to Engineering an Empire, but that doesn’t count.)
I am addicted to weeding.
At the old house, the whole YARD was made of weeds, so pulling them up would’ve been futile, and we would’ve been left with [...]

Or, How I Broke My Glasses and Both of Us Took a Dunk in the Lake
So we bought this canoe yesterday, and since the weather was halfway decent this afternoon, we decided to take it out for a spin. Everything initially went off without a hitch. We climbed into the canoe and took off, no [...]