It’s heading toward the middle of June, the heart of baseball’s season. The Red Sox are in first place. We were sure this was going to be a terrible season, but they’ve been either leading the pack or almost leading it since the beginning… Read More ›
Month: June 2021
THE GARDEN GROWS – BUT IT’S SO HOT!
FOTD – June 30 – DAY LILIES & ROSES The garden grows. It has been so hot it’s hard to believe the flowers aren’t fried, but we’ve been getting a little bit of rain. I guess that keeps things growing. It’s… Read More ›
YOU CAN’T MISS IT
Last night, I spent close to an hour looking for something that was exactly where it was supposed to be. It was on the correct shelf, right in front. Nothing was hiding it. It wasn’t behind something or turned the… Read More ›
DUMPING THE REBLOG LINK
I enjoy being able to reblog posts I find well-written, particularly relevant, or amusing. The problem is I seem to have a bunch of “rebloggers” who use my posts every day instead of writing anything of their own. They come… Read More ›
WORLD SHARING NOW THAT HALF OF 2021 IS GONE
SHARE YOUR WORLD 6-29-2021 Hard to believe half this year is already gone. I’m sure there were other months, but do I remember them? Nope. The months have scooted by and not even marked their passage. Maybe this is just the… Read More ›
UNEDITED – PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT PROCESSING
A Photo a Week Challenge: Unedited As it happens, I have so more unedited than edited pictures. Recently I’ve been doing less editing. If the pictures is reasonably sharp, I crop and sign it, but that’s pretty much the extent of… Read More ›
MORE CHIPMUNKS
For a long time, I’ve had just one chipmunk on the deck, but recently, there have been two. My guess is that if there are two, there are probably a lot more. I just would appreciate that they not all… Read More ›
AT THE END, THERE’S AN END
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while. Garry and I are in an age group where our friends, colleagues, and family who are our age all have some kind of physical problem. It may be minor. Just… Read More ›
THE CYNIC WAS RIGHT
My mother was not a regular kind of mom. This confused me a lot while I was growing up. Other mothers made cookies, kissed boo-boos. Hung out with the other mothers in summertime. Swapped recipes. Watched soap operas. My mother didn’t bake… Read More ›
IT’S MY PARTY – RICH PASCHALL
If you were to Google (verb, meaning “to search for”) LGBTQ musicians, singers, or artists, you are likely to find some rather long lists. You might be surprised by the numbers, which include many well-known performers. I “Googled” just that… Read More ›
DAYLILIES AND ROSES
FOTD – June 26 – DAYLILIES AND ROSES I know this sounds weird, but I think I managed to pull up the last of the bittersweet in the garden. Owen and I have been uprooting it. Every time we pass the… Read More ›
SQUIRRELS AND NUKES
Squirrels are so cute. What could they possibly have to do with nuclear meltdowns? I’m not sure exactly why the big gray squirrels have been mostly replaced in our woods by smaller red squirrels. Both normally live in this area,… Read More ›
NEWS NEVER CHANGES: GUN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – BY TOM CURLEY
Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 25th Given the state of the state, this seemed pretty relevant. I can look through the posts on Serendipity over the months and years and instead of becoming outdated — because we fixed it — or at least moved… Read More ›
A Post-Orwellian World – Reblog by Fandango
Originally posted on This, That, and the Other:
A conservative Nevada group called the Nevada Family Alliance has proposed putting body cameras on teachers to stop them from teaching Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory is a way of understanding…
FLOWERS IN LIVING BLACK AND WHITE
CBWC: Flowers I have to admit having a personal preference for flowers in color rather than black and white. To me, the essence of flowers is color, but I’ll give it a try. Maybe orchids since they are more “form”… Read More ›
NEW FOOD, DIFFERENT BIRDS
We didn’t change foods with any idea of attracting different birds, but we seem to gotten new birds anyway. Which isn’t a bad thing, but is a bit of a surprise. We are see far fewer finches — which were… Read More ›