Drip, drip, drip. I have blogged (belabored) several times on the economics of my current neighborhood, and this over-blogging of the subjec...

First, an answer to the older post titled "An Abstract" and posted on December 14 was BS as in Bird S###.  But it did make a nice ...

Christmas is not Christmas without something given to you in pieces that you must assemble. Some of the pieces were so small I lost the...

Today is Christmas. I am waiting for a call from my children who want to open presents via Zoom. I got out grandma's China for hubby and...

The 2020 solstice day was a busy, busy, busy shortest day of the year. We packed the car with gifts for the kids and grandkids and then hea...

Each year I drag out fewer and fewer Christmas decorations.  This year, with Covid hanging in the air, no one comes into the house.  The de...

I most certainly did some sharpening on these, but I thought they were fun.

Go ahead and guess. Not too hard.

Not sure how time can fly faster and faster and faster when I am moving much slower these days.  There must be some physics formula abou...

The "food lovers" holiday has past and we now must dust off the treadmill (or in my case the elliptical). That extra five or ...

This is my favorite holiday.  It falls usually on the mildest of days before winter and therefore you can have a fire in the fireplace or n...

There may be people who find sheltering at home in a blank canvas with little to do.  Oh, you can always do the cleaning and repairing and m...

I am not a patient person by nature, but I can call forth a version of the strength of patience if I am not distracted by other things. It i...

It seems that my days are filled with several hours of computer interaction.  Most of my shopping including 80% of my food shopping is done ...

Absolutely no motivation to write on my blog.  Not sure if that is related to the horrible politics, the COVID19 fears, the normal creativit...

The new neighbors across  the way and the new neighbor  who coud not build on the "unperkable" property, and instead, put in a doc...

My first advice for the day is to not order expensive European chocolate over the Internet.  I know, you have probably never considered that...

It all begins with just one creep from Russia with too much time and not enough money. Somehow Hubby's email got hacked. The first ...

Above is the completed new patio with the teak gazebo (turned into an arbor) donated by our neighbors.  This was taken before the solar ligh...

The world goes around. The seasons change. I am fully aware this will continue even when I die and after I die.  There is nothing spec...