We are back.  Yes, it was about three weeks of travel.  First a few days in Santa Barbara, CA visiting a dear cousin who lost her loving...

Certainly one of my least liked chores, and my weakest skill, although I can talk the leg off a dead horse, is asking for people to voluntee...

Got this in the mail the other day.  I am invited to participate in a program where "Your neighbor is already helping."  Nothin...

It began with a small crack that ran along the base of the garage floor slab and the outside wall.  Then we noticed a hole where the slab me...

I have been away from Blogger, not because I am so busy, although I am, but because I have really not felt I had anything compelling to writ...

Maybe some of you will remember when I wrote about the tiny arbor we purchased from a local hardware store years ago.  It is a fragile and ...

Citizen science has become one way to collect scientific data because it costs very little.  Every single thing in this world is about money...

As a follow-up to comments I made on one of the young men in my life: This was mailed on May 10, days after Mother's Day, and I got it...

Another day of sprinkling rain today, coolish, but not unpleasant.  I wanted to be outside planting on my deck with the pots for summer...

If there is one thing most of us understand in the realm of physics is that eventually bubbles burst if they keep growing.  Maybe someday we...

A number of communities went through painful degeneration during that deep recession we were thrown into 8 years ago.  Even my little bit of...