Alison Hawke

Stand aside Starbucks Mocha Frappachino ®, there's a better wake-up call: grapefruit juice.  A hefty dose of citric acid first thing in the morning is bound to wake me up.  I found a freeware alarm program called Citrus, and a set of sounds to go with it called Lemon

Somewhere in Texas had 17 inches of rain Thursday night according to the radio, which is 43cm, or nearly half a metre.  I'm still a metric girl, it makes much more sense just to slam on an extra zero or power of ten and keep making up great

Three-big-trees-raining-white-fuzz season has started.

The house external-scrape-and-paint job starts on Friday.  The fence rip-out-and-replace job starts when the wood arrives at the fencing company.  Both jobs will be finished hopefully by the end of this month but I get twitchy and panicky about spending large sums of money.  No-one said house-owning was this expensive.