I have a lot of music on my computer, and I've been using a small, battery-powered auxiliary speaker to listen to it.  It doesn't have much oomph, and we have a stand-alone speaker which runs on AC, through which Ray has played the music which is on his phone.  My computer didn't come with Bluetooth, which I could use to connect it to the larger ( Read more... )

We've been hearing for weeks that we're due to get rain, then we don't, and it's getting damn dry around here.  Our neighbors' yards look burnt, as they usually do in August, especially if they insist on mowing them too often or too short ( Read more... )

I have to confess:  I've been watching the teaser for Twilight; Breaking Dawn Part 2 over and over again, just for the giggles.  What's cracking me up is Michael Sheen's aka Aro's costume.  To me, it looks like a heavily tarted-up marching band uniform.  Every time I see it, I imagine I hear tubas and yes, a glockenspiel playing in the background ( Read more... )

A lot of people are complaining about the rain.  The darn weeds are getting ahead of me in some areas.  That's probably my biggest beef ( Read more... )

I brought home two bags of seed-starting formula Thursday.  I've pulled down the box of seeds, some bought, some harvested, to look them over and assess how many of each I need to grow, as well as what seeds I need to buy.   Figured out how to copy my last seed-starting list from my old computer to this one ( Read more... )

Weird weather: I woke up to a sunshower this morning.  That's not weird; I've seen plenty of those in my lifetime, but with thunder?  I can't recall witnessing that combo before ( Read more... )

A baby came through my line yesterday with her mom, and the baby was wearing a sweater knitted in a version of the honeycomb stitch I'm using on the church-lady baby blanket I'm knitting.  Neat ( Read more... )

Weird day yesterday.  Besides the obvious fact that I was dog-tired from working so many hours the day before, people seemed to be in strange moods - the customers, I mean.  One woman was caught trying to shoplift two carts full of food and diapers and stuff.  Six hundred fifty dollars' worth.  When they nabbed her, she seemed totally blase about ( Read more... )