The Ripening.


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The last few weeks work have not been very busy, so I have been taking some time off here and there as I am still easing into the whole commuting thing. Besides, I know that next month 3 new projects are going to hit all at once, so I better take time off while I can. So I was “lucky” when storms knocked out power again Monday morning. My ( Read more... )

Thursday morning I went to renew my vehicle registration and get a new license as soon as the place opened up.   As is invariably the case, even though I arrived ten minutes early there were three people who had just showed up ahead of me, and they started walking up to the front door as soon as I parked my car.   I can never time these things ( Read more... )

The previous Sunday I finally deemed the weather conditions suitable to mount my long-planned Winter Expedition to find the Eastward Passage.   After studying various maps, I discovered that the end of my street meets up with a strip of land that now leads to - and is part of - the park a 5 minute drive from my house.   Long have I wanted to be ( Read more... )

I woke up on the morning of December 1st to find that Winter's fist had descended on the land and pummeled it without mercy.  Over the course of 24 hours there was at least 18 inches of snow - probably 20 (article containing National Weather Service info: NWS releases snowfall totals from first winter storm of the 2020-2021 season (news5cleveland. ( Read more... )

Rather exhausted and sore now, but one more task completed before the end of the season: finished the raised bed for the future vegetable garden.  Ended up being literally one block short (of course!), so I went back to the garden center to purchase an additional one (turns out the stone is 19 cents/lb) and arrange for topsoil delivery.  Lined the ( Read more... )

Well that escalated quickly ( Read more... )

Recently during a spate of cleaning I uncovered several unused and forgotten-about gift cards, one of them being from the bookstore Barnes & Nobles, which is very close to my house.  I don’t buy books for myself anymore, but I do occasionally purchase them as Christmas gifts for friends, so I make an annual pilgrimage there every December just to ( Read more... )

So yesterday I was dealing with the aftermath of a mishap that happened to me on New Year’s Eve.

I wasn’t going anywhere, and had no plans aside from reading a book and drinking mulled wine sitting by a roaring fire, and for a while, all went according to plan. After several hours, the fire had begun to get pretty low. So I grabbed the fireplace ( Read more... )

Now that October is officially over and the house was 58 degrees when I woke up this morning, I finally capitulated and turned on the furnace for the very first time this season.  (And it worked, hurray!)  Now the temps are supposed to get down into the mid-20's tonight; welcome to Late Fall.  Most of the leaves are still on the trees, and I never ( Read more... )