Bits and Pieces

The second heavy snowfall in less than a week has made the area beautiful but hazardous.  We’re getting much more snow from this storm than the last, and I am not venturing out today.   There has to be at least 8″ of snow on the benches out back, with no end in sight till tomorrow.  [...]

Storing All That Food Storage

Where do you put a year’s worth of food in your house? If your’re like me and all your kids are raised and gone, not a really big problem. Two people and lots of room (if I would clean out stuff that is no longer needed, that is).  But for those with families still at [...]

Spring Marches Right In

I have to laugh as I watch the weather in the south and up the east coast yesterday and today.  Snow in Alabama and Georgia?  A snow emergency in Washington D.C.?  The same storm calling for up to a foot of snow in New York City overnight and today?  Hmm.  The Gore Effect strikes again, [...]

The Weather Outside Is Frightful

  …but the fire is so delightful. It is 7° outside right now, and the HIGH tomorrow is supposed to be 5°.  The low tomorrow night?  You don’t even want to know.  Okay, okay, your forced me to do it . . .  -10°.  Yes, that’s a minus sign, as in ten below zero.  When’s the [...]

Minnesotans for Global Warming

Enjoying winter? Neither am I.  Once Christmas is over I’m ready for spring. So, here is a little ditty to hum through the dreary months ahead.

Radiator Springs in December

The final family gathering of the season (well, until the New Year’s Eve Party at our house next Wednesday) was at Elaine and Matt’s in Radiator Springs today.  Drew and Kelli brought K~, Doug and Lolly brought I~ and Z~, Bud and I brought pies and presents, and we all had  a good time.  We are [...]

Today’s Terrorist Test

What’s with the Democratic party’s presidential candidates?  Al Gore or the Unabomber?  What’s with that? In an article today Harold Kildow asks What Is It About Democratic Presidential Candidates and Terrorists?  The article links to a short test, and if you read the article at least up to that link you get a little background on the premise [...]

Gambling, Anyone?

Do you suppose the people who send out all the spam for online gambling ever get responses?  I figure they must or they wouldn’t send so much, but it’s hard to imagine that anyone would respond to such crass ads. Am I the only one who gets offers for “free” online gambling, roulette, blackjack, and other [...]

Concerned About The Intellectual Climate

I installed Instant messenger on my computer this weekend and am officially in touch with the world now - or at least with the few people I am connected to. I know, I know - probably the next to the last person in the universe to do so.  I can hear all the laughing out there.  You have to [...]

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes

                            It has been five days since I did any work in the garden, so the cool of the evening seemed the perfect time to go do a little weeding.  Unfortunately, the mosquitos thought it was a good time to visit the garden too, those crepuscular* little critters.  I barely escaped with my life, and not from [...]