The take over of the Oregon Wildlife Refuge still hangs heavy on my mind.  I guess it is because I love this earth and I do not believe ...

The big storm is now melting into water and I can hear little rivulets trickling down the drain pipes when I carry bird seed outside.  The w...

Spent most of Friday getting ready for the big one.  Meteorologists were in the middle of orgasmic math as they predicted the breaking of te...

We went to our monthly master gardener meeting last night and were surprised to find almost an inch of snow as we left in the early evening....

This should go on my other blog...the one about our beautiful earth, but I have a list of things for that one, so today I share our FIRST re...

What follows is going to be about medical care and procedures.  If you are young and healthy and do not want to read this, I will under...

Well about 20% in I gave up on the Baldacci book that I had written about in an earlier post.  It was written too much like a movie with...

Not everyone talks to their wait staff when eating out,but I frequently do.  I am "elderly" in the sense that I may not talk to an...

It is a little after 1:00 in the morning.  Hubby's snoring pulled me from the light  sleep I had fallen into.  I poked him to roll over ...

Our cold weather has finally arrived.  Below is the snowstorm that sprinkled flakes across my distant neighbor's yards, but failed to mo...

A "National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and...

Those who really know me know that this is too cutesy and little-old-lady for my in-your-face taste, but it will have to do as I have ju...

Me : Anything you want to tell me? Talk about? Reveal about yourself so that I understand exactly what's going on in your mind at all ti...

I have been in computer hell for a few days.  It seems my download of Windows 10 to this old PC was NOT a good decision.  As a result they (...

My last post before Christmas.  This year the  approach to the holidays was the easiest ever.  Daughter wants to do most of  the cooking...

They no longer call But if they did, And asked how I was, What would I say? This morning I saw the pileated  destroying that old tree. ...

Finally a day that is gray and cold and rainy.  I like this forced coziness.  Maybe a fire in the fireplace tonight?  I have been able to fo...

Yes, I admit that our politics has put me in a funk.  Then we have had the gun disasters that  moved me into more of a funk followed by the ...

We tend to disappear as we age.  Women notice it more  because our culture treats us like eye-candy from a young age.  In my 40's I was ...

This is the season of peace in our country.  We claim to be a Judaeo-Christian culture, but I am not sure anything from that religious ...