This winter has seemed like Ground Hog Day...all winter long.  The days are dark and unusually short.  I swear this year they seem much shor...

The island of Aruba is hot, hot, hot.  And I do not say that because of the effect of the voluptuous body below in the string bikini.  (I th...

 This old cherry was dying little by little and now with a push from the storm seems to have just missed that budget arbor we put in. Here ...

I am putting it off as long as I can.   This morning was filled with hot and sweaty work outside.   Lots of lifting and carrying and putt...

I just noticed that my last post on this blog was the 1,000th.  Quite the journalistic diarrhea I have going on here.  I didn't notice o...

All we got was some very nasty winds and torrential downpours...but it was enough to dislodge these two tulip trees.  One had been damaged ...

She is biting sharp like the blade of a knife and as cold as the last song of the loneliest sparrow. This confident weather has thrown me ...

This is my favorite time of year.  Days are cool enough for roast chicken dinners.  I harvested the last of the garden vegetables and the...

I am in Florida trying to thaw my frigid bones as this post is being published.   It seemed that almost every weekend that we headed into...

Being retired means, for most people, that everyday is Saturday or Sunday.  Baring economic hardship, you can pretty much do what you w...

Today has been one of the grayest and wettest days thus far.  I am hoping that this will not be a consistent pattern for the winter mon...

I had just returned from two days of taking care of two preschool grandchildren last night. They had tag-teamed me and while the deafening...

The heat and humidity along the Bay had worn us thin. It seemed that just walking out to the shed would result in a necessary change of clo...

After one of the more torrential thunderstorms had cleared a few weeks ago, we were rewarded with the view above from our dock. Actually, t...