Now it can be told! The pups and I have been alone for the past eight days. Pyrate was off on The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, touring around Northwest Ohio. It’s a marvel of modern logistics, transporting all the tents and personal effects of the riders (4 semi truckloads), arranging food and entertainment for about [...]
70’s beauty Farrah passed after a long illness. Mr Michael Jackson died unexpectedly. Also, Sky Saxon (great name) of the flower band, The Seeds, died this week. Here is the band on a dreadful ancient videotape doing their hit. It was the TV show, The Mothers-In-Law, circa 1967. (The dancing blonde is Deborah Walley- Gidget [...]
We have a custom around here, now it its second generation. If you use a big word in conversation- 3 or 4 syllables or more, you need to look up on the off chance the duck is coming down. Groucho always said “if you say the secret woid, the duck will come down and [...]
Well I finished my second go round with Anna Karenina. , The first time I 1 was 19, in college and taking a class where I had to read a bunch of Russian novels. It’s interesting going back there almost 40 years later. Since there’s a love story, I remember that from the first time. [...]
A weed among the plants we find
That hurts the body and the mind,
Yet in the way of self-abuse,
We see it constantly in use.
Unpleasant to the smell and taste
Yet men for it their money waste;
The reason why I scare can tell
For none at first do like it well.
Some do it chew and some it smoke
Whilst others [...]
News that made me smile! There’s a patch of ground that’s a swampy mess, aka Maryland wetlands. Rather than go in with mowers and weedeaters, the State has hired a herd of goats to clean it up. The goats get to munch grass, and the cute little endangered bog turtle doesn’t get mowed over!
I need intervention badly!
I’m “Reformed” and that tradition is that we’re all saints, but yeah well, missionaries and doctors are certainly “saintlier” than wicked lil’ me.
This noble fellow is St. Isidore of Seville, the saint of the Internet. “Hey Izzy, need help here!”
I’m writing this entry on Tweety, the mini ‘puter. Tweety just [...]