Well, well. It is March, after all.

You wouldn’t have known it a week ago. The last snow made everything look rather bleak and Antarctic (if I can make up an adjective). But when you least expected it, the temperatures crept upwards. As I let Clementine into the back yard, I began to notice spots of […]

Well, if my New Year’s Resolution had started off with better church attendance, I’d have been thwarted right off the bat. More snow fell last night and this morning, and our intended trip to church became a very quick trip with a very slow U-turn in it. Not an entirely wasted effort, because if I […]

Ugh! Who ordered in the blizzard?
I told Greg to take a picture for blog-sharing while I got ready for the day, and he took this one:

But I felt like that didn’t tell the whole story, because this storm has been notable for the high winds. So consider that THIS is what our porch looks like:

And, […]

I’m way behind on the bloggable stuff, but I thought I better start with some celestial fun.
Greg and I were coming back home late from errands, and we were both a little tired as we went into the house. We knew home was just a quick stop before going back out to feed a […]

Son of a gun.

I never get to be trendy. So even though I’d been reading the same stories that everyone else has the past few months, when I got a sore throat on Tuesday, I thought I’d just been singing too much. And when I got muscle aches and felt hot on Wednesday, I still […]

This YouTube video may not look like much. It’s just a touchdown from a recent high school game in nearby Maryville. But it’s really just a very cool deal. The touchdown was scored by Matt Ziesel, who has Down’s Syndrome, and had been dreaming of being put in the game all season. When his team […]

So, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Greg went out to take pictures of the soybean fields. But he got so distracted with other objects of primary interest — cows, old tires, water towers — that he forgot his mission. Some good pics, though.

Lovely bit of natural landscaping. But I’m still trying to figure out […]

Goofing around more on Facebook, I’ve become a fan of those short updates. So here’s the way it is today out our way:
Greg and I are working. Oh well. Owning your own business sometimes means that weekends are just workdays with different television at the end. On the other hand:

I’m listening to the dog snore. […]

We’ve had a deliciously mild summer so far, but August seems intent on making up for lost time. So when I take Clementine for the late afternoon walk, I’m all for being focused and brief with our attentions to all the familiar landmarks. But what can you do with a scent hound? Clementine caught scent […]

I was thinking about my dad recently, and so I went onto YouTube and looked up this Laurel & Hardy movie called “Flying Deuces.” See the parts where a crowd is alternately chasing the plane and being chased by the plane? Somewhere in that crowd is my dad, at the tender age of about 11, […]