Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Autumn Magic There’s nothing like some sunshine on a crisp day at the beginning of fall to get us moving. We haven’t been doing much moving. We’ve been unreasonably tired since the lockdown. We aren’t sick,… Read More ›
CFFC: Circles and Cartwheels The world goes round and round and we go around with it. We are now on the autumn side of “around” — and then will come winter. I remember when Kaity was younger and we took her… Read More ›
FOTD – September 29 – Mums It started raining last night and it’s still raining. It’s supposed to stop tomorrow or later tonight. Tomorrow night the temperature is supposed to drop down to the 40s. This might trigger the trees… Read More ›
The thunder woke me early this morning. As far as I knew, we weren’t expecting a storm, but these days, it can be hard to tell what’s going to happen with our weather. The leaves were rattling last night —… Read More ›
SHARE YOUR WORLD 9-26-2021 I can’t believe September is over. I was sure it just started! Apparently not. It is not yet glorious Autumn here. It will be at least another week. I’m not seeing a single changed leaf on my… Read More ›
Last week was a loser in a literal sense. The first thing to mysteriously vanish was the sharpening sheath for my favorite small kitchen blade. Since the knife and the sheath never left the kitchen, it simply had to be… Read More ›
FOWC with Fandango — Late So spoke the March Hare and was the reason he had kept that big watch. It was supposed to keep him on time, but it didn’t seem to work for him. Back in the olden golden… Read More ›
FOTD – September 27 – Pretty Pansy, if it’s really a pansy The person in the shop said these were “fancy pansies.” I can’t look them up because there’s no listing for “fancy pansy,” and I have no idea if they… Read More ›
FOTD – September 26 – Fuchsia The fuchsia Owen nursed through last winter is just now, at the very end of the season, beginning to really flower. I don’t know if he will nurse it through another year. We shall see…. Read More ›
The Anti-Vaxxers, by Rich Paschall By now you have probably seen plenty of stories of anti-vaxxers who got the coronavirus and are now dead. Maybe you saw family members tearfully crying on the late-night news. They wished they had been… Read More ›
Today is a cooking day. Usually I complain about cooking. I’ve been cooking daily for close to 60 years. Recently Owen has taken over cooking for a couple of days a week — a huge help. Typically, I make simple… Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – September 23, 2019 It’s two years later and the leaves haven’t even started to get serious about changing. Maybe they will soon. The weather is right, though it is warmer than it used to be. I suspect… Read More ›
FOTD – September 25 – More Mums Periodically, because I don’t have access to a lot of places where they grow flowers (wrong climate), I find myself taking pictures of one same item. Repeatedly. And they are just a little different… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #136 This question clearly has dubious origins. If I was forced? Forced by whom? Is Trump at it AGAIN? Maybe it’s all because of the immigrants! That must be it. Immigrants. Dude. Were I for some obscure reason… Read More ›
The phone rang. The caller ID flashed, showing one of Boston’s two major newspapers. I figured it was the sales department. I handed the phone to Marilyn. I heard Marilyn respond “yes” several times and was puzzled. We didn’t need… Read More ›
CMMC – September needs an “O” in the middle of the word I feel like I’m being a lawyer when I ask, but “Where’s the middle?” when talking about a word that might be several syllables long. Does this mean any… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 