Plastic Farm Animals
My husband has made me an outlandishly wealthy woman by giving me the luxury of time – all day, all mine – to do with as I wish. Stand still long enough and you will see something wonderful. Today it was a flicker working its way up a telephone pole in the first sun of […]
Bob had the inner tube from his front bike tire in the kitchen sink, looking for more holes when I was reminded of an idea I had years ago. He had just patched 4 tire punctures after riding the bike only 10 feet across a patch of weeds. As he made plans to re-tire our […]
We went 20 days without significant time off. In terms of “Learning Curve”, we figured it was like a sprint up a rope…… …or sipping from a fire hose. Grant, a Civil War buff, certainly knows that a crucial battle lost (or won!) can turn the tide of a war. (BTW, I’ve learned that Tallahassee […]
Bob’s big toe on his right foot is black and blue. Two days ago, he slammed it into the old tool dresser he was cleaning out. It was so sore, he could hardly walk on it. This was bad timing, considering that the next day he would be bringing a flatbed truck up to the […]
The awesome power of a bored brain In 11 days, Bob and I leave Maui with no plans to return. A couple of days ago, I came across a road kill rat during one of my walks. It surprised me, not because I have never seen road kill, or dead rats, or even road kill […]