The Keswick Blog

Combat-Mode Grocery Shopping and My Pathetic Need to Make Everyone Like Me (or at least pretend to).

Apr 4, 2022 4 Comments

When a cashier takes an instant dislike to me, it makes for a long, painful check out during my weekly shopping trip.

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Razor blades and adulting: The same but differ-, er no actually, they are the same thing.

Aug 31, 2021 No Comments

This is a true story. There is not one word of a lie, no single misleading statement nor exaggeration included herein. I was going to start this post with “Honestly”…

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Two updates and a long-awaited realization

Jul 15, 2021 No Comments

Updates on the blog are few and far between these days. Life is busy. Anxiety runs high while coping mechanisms continue to fail me. But that’s another post for another…

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I didn’t do my homework and the whole house is going to pay for it.

May 1, 2021 No Comments

After an unprovoked attack on our apple trees last year, this year I decided to be proactive and try to defend them against our local deer gang. This is how…

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This may be one reason why I get so little done in a day

Feb 7, 2021 No Comments

Generally, I am in constant (non-aerobic, because I’m mostly a sloth) motion and do “stuff” from the time that I rise in the morning until the moment I burrow back…

Family Frugal Living Home and Food Posts for the sake of my own sanity The Good True stories

This pandemic is making me do crazy things. Like math.

Aug 16, 2020 No Comments

Ever think that there is nothing you can do about your food costs? Well, with this one little change, you can save over $1000 a year and still have pizza…

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Just when I think I’m about to really get stuff done and blaze a new path, something like this happens. Every time.

May 27, 2020 No Comments

Yesterday afternoon, while two of my smalls (who are all more in the medium-large range, if I’m being honest) worked on their school work and the other two wondered around…