My little town is putting on a fall festival this weekend, and so they had scheduled a parade for this morning. But with the usual contrariness of weather, it seems like they have been granted the very worst day ever on which to hold a parade. Yesterday’s mild temperatures have dipped down five degrees, and […]

It actually got down below 60 degrees today, which means that along with getting our lawn mowed for the last time and putting away all the gardening stuff, I can harvest the basil from my window box. Not like this takes very long to do — I don’t get very good sun at the window […]

I don’t like olives. I’ve tried to like them, and all the people that do like them have tried to tell me why I should.
But I can’t help it. When I found out my little canned pasta lunch had olives, I had to pick them out. And having done that, I’m sure I’m right. Look […]

It’s a rainy morning, thank goodness. And the temperature feels like the high-70’s, a sign that just maybe we’ve turned that corner. The suspense was killing us, but it looks like we might just make it out of the ghastly, muggy dead of summer after all.
The dog didn’t want to go out this morning. Wet […]

It’s very, very hot out, and I’m unpresentable.

When I came home from church, I changed into clothes that were based solely on comfort — none of your bogus aesthetics like appearance or compatibility. So I’ve got on a purple and green shirt whose fabric is so floppy it almost feels like wearing pajamas, tan shorts […]

For those of you sick of the unpredictable quality of YouTube offerings, here’s a valuable resource Greg discovered — a link (HERE) to a plethora of animated short films from Canada. If you haven’t seen any of this quirky Canadian humor before, I’ll list a couple favorites of mine below. (I can’t give you a […]

Summer has gotten hot and dry, and the grass is panting for water just like all the other growing things. Still, even in its current desiccated state, the patterns of grass are kind of interesting, if you look closely. But then, I may just have been influenced by something I read today. It’s a paean […]

I realized yesterday that we’re coming to the end of the period when we get to watch our daylilies bloom, and so I thought I’d do a little Georgia O’Keeffe imitation.

No, that’s not quite right. How about …

No, not even close. Pretty, though. Of course, it doesn’t help things any that I’m not taking the […]

Greg and I were somewhat ambivalent on whether to buy fireworks this year. Since coming from the parts of California where a sputtering hand-held sparkler is regarded as an invitation to wildfire to the parts of the Midwest where blowing your hand off with a mortar rocket is regarded as a ritual of manhood, we […]

(This is the kind of meandering post I get when I just mull things over. It always seems to end up in a series of questions, and so I almost deleted the whole thing, figuring that it wouldn’t be a worthwhile read for anyone. But in the end I decided not to, just in case […]