Last weekend, it was so bitterly cold that I didn't leave the house at all. This weekend, it was so nice outside I couldn't wait to get out. Friends were feeling similarly, and a bunch of us got together last night to celebrate the fact that the weather hadn't trapped us in our homes for a change. It felt great to be out, and seeing people in the ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago, I was sitting here watching CBS Sunday Morning when I heard a loud noise in the driveway. I thought at first it was my downstairs neighbors, who can be, let us say, exuberant. Then I heard it again, and my brain registered that it was a bird. A big bird. It was a turkey. I grabbed my camera and ran out in my slippers to catch her ( Read more... )

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