It's always dry here, so that's not really news, but we've had more than 20 days of over 90-degree heat, and we're not used to that. It just doesn't get that hot, for that long here, very often.

And now there's a grass fire burning nearby. Regular readers of this blog may have noted that I comment often on losing mobile phone connectivity when ( Read more... )

Maybe a little of both. Today is both trash day and recycle day*, so I put the bins out with the garbage can this morning.

On last night's NBC Nightly News, there was an entire story about (roughly paraphrasing here)childhood obesity. They talked about how kids under 9 just naturally want to play, and play outside. The number of hours of ( Read more... )

When we first moved into our house and the neighbor's cat figured out we didn't have dogs (the previous owner had three!), he started roaming around in our backyard. Kind of a nyah, nyah, nyah to all those mean dogs who used to chase him off, I suppose. Well, we didn't really want him using our yard as a litter box, so Unk, master of noises, ( Read more... )

Entertainment from the blue couch:

The dogs next door (sometimes known as the Barky Barkersons) are named Scooby, Doobie, and Ponch. Which makes me chuckle. And also reminds me of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ... which makes me smile and remember memorizing that with my mom. Which reminds me of The Sugar-Plum Tree, which I say to little people ( Read more... )

For those blog readers who actually read subject lines, I know you're thinking "you regularly review a reality show in your blog. And it's not even a good one. What can be more inane than that?" Trust me, I got inane. And also random.

on the 10 commandments: I've been watching my back-door neighbor get new windows installed all day, which I'm ( Read more... )

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Just a quick entry to make myself smile. First graders are so cute! Tonight we went to our neighbor's school concert, "Gone Buggy". It was just too entertaining ( Read more... )