Dear Neighbors Who Don’t Read My Blog (that being all of you)

Dear 4 sets of neighbors whose backyards circle around my back yard, We’re the ones with the streetlight type thing on the Board of Water and Light post in our backyard. Yup, its in my yard, my name is SnakeLady, I pay for the light. We also noticed that last summer it started going outContinueContinue reading “Dear Neighbors Who Don’t Read My Blog (that being all of you)”

Whopper Freak Out

Passing along a YouTube video, with a SnakeLadyLibrarian story to go along with it. But watch the video first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVm84MD4vU4 ’cause my story makes more sense that way. The first 30 seconds of the video pretty much tells the whole tale. I worked at Burger King three times. Two full summers and most of oneContinueContinue reading “Whopper Freak Out”

It’s All Method

Remember that time I talked about how I fear killing people by not sealing jam jars properly so I am reduced to begging homemade jams and jellies from others (hint). Behold the fruits of my labors. Jams are kind of like Christmas cookies that way. It doesn’t take much ooooing and ahhhhing to keep itContinueContinue reading “It’s All Method”

Family Legends – Working the Union

We have a third-generation family story we tell of Frances William Schryer – my maternal grandfather. To the right, Frank and family. Frank had 7 brothers and sisters. He married my grandmother when he was 23 and she 19. He was apprenticed as a tool and dye maker at the time, and earning a goodContinueContinue reading “Family Legends – Working the Union”