Hail! I heard something fall on the roof, then something else and then it thundered down, hail! The boards on the deck are just under six inches across, for reference. I have never before experienced hail of this magnitude, but have driven by banks of it on the side of the road, shortly . . . → Read More: Weather!
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Poplar Two. I’ve been playing around with my camera, enjoying patterns and perceptions. Life is all about relativity! This image is part of my Altered States Gallery, which has just been updated. I don’t think frugal quite covers what Attila and I do with our scant resources. It is not desperation. It is . . . → Read More: Celebration of Gifts Re the MarsEdit software as a culprit for my occasional odd use of the English language. I just posted a comment in a previous post. I wanted to use the word water like, but all as one word, I typed it in as all one word and my computer changed it to waterline. It . . . → Read More: Autocorrect… WRONG Luna called last night, to wish me a happy Mother’s Day. Attila and I got to chat with the Grandbabies for a bit. It is challenging, because their phone is through their internet connection, and kept blanking out, so there were frequent periods where we couldn’t tell if the kids were being silent, or . . . → Read More: Salad Dressing Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers! We made a lighting trip to visit with my mother yesterday, it was her birthday after all. We left after Attila got home from work, drove three hours, had a wonderful time and a fantastic meal at my sister’s home, with Mom and nieces et al and nephew . . . → Read More: Jingle Bells for Mother’s Day After much investigation, I found GGG Grandaunt Bella’s Death Registration record. The record was obscured by a faulty transcription: a misspelling of her surname. She lived to be 88 years old, and spent the last years of her life at the County Gaol. She is listed as a vagrant, although that seems a bit . . . → Read More: Retired to the County Gaol Wednesday, May 8, 2013 On the job yesterday, I sat down for 15 minutes, between 8:15 and 5:15. It was a very busy day, and I should have sat out my unpaid lunch hour, and taken my two ten minute breaks, but I didn’t. If I had, the work would not have been completed, . . . → Read More: Bella The nights are cold, as the temperature listed here, recorded at 8:00 a.m., confirms. The leaves are quickly opening to the world. We are surrounded by a green riot; every shade of imaginable green is displayed as far as the eye can see. The early morning is cool and crisp. It is the perfect . . . → Read More: Yellow Oh what a beautiful day! Attila has five of the six rows of wood stacked in the wood shed. He has been hard at it, that is a LOT of wood. However, he has only one row left to stack in the wood shed for next winter. And then… he begins to stack the . . . → Read More: Oh what a beautiful morning… |
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Cautionary Tale
If you insist on looking under rocks, you may find things that you do not want to touch. Recently this happened to me. I interacted with a politician.
Politicians and I are on different pages. I believe in equal inclusion of the population as the basis of a democracy, and that that inclusion . . . → Read More: Cautionary Tale