Anyone else have a yearly battle with carpenter bees? We get menaced by them all summer long. They have holes bored along the bottom of our railing and they come back to them every spring. They sit up in there and nest and chew... and chew... and chew. You can actually hear them chewing inside the railing! I sometimes wonder if our whole railing is ( Read more... )

About 5:45pm this evening, Barack Obama passed through our sleepy little town outside of Baltimore on his way to Washington DC. The man and I stood out in the below-freezing cold with pockets of other onlookers to await his train. I'm not sure the half hour or so we were out there was worth it for the 10 second glimpse of a moving train, but, you ( Read more... )

Away from home and so darn bored ( Read more... )

Spiders live in my house. I'm fine with it. As long as they stay small and they stay out of the way - stick to corners that I don't visit or live down in the basement with the centipedes - we're cool. But they are not under any circumstances allowed to get on me or even come close enough that I feel my personal space has been threatened (this would ( Read more... )

My neighbor across the street came running over:

I'm so glad to see you! No one's seen you in a long time. Everyone was worried. We hadn't seen you! I'm glad you're all right. I was worried. No one had seen you!Apparently, I had been presumed dead by at least two neighbors ( Read more... )

Feast your eyes on Fort Armistead (or what was once Fort Armistead) in Baltimore, MD. This is just about the coolest place you could ever hope to stumble upon. It was a munitions battery from the 1890s until the 1920s when all the cannons were removed and it was basically left to wither and die ( Read more... )