Driving back from the grocery store I passed a raccoon on the side of the country road, next to a field. I slowed down to take a look. He turned and looked back at me with tired, dazed eyes. Other than that he did not move. Overhead, two birds circled. Whether ill or injured, I don't know, but that animal is not long for this world.

I've been thinking about doing my yoga practice outside for a little while now, and this morning I finally did it. I was a little nervous about practicing without the DVD to tell me what to do next. Silly, maybe, to feel the need the training wheels, but that's part of the reason I wanted to do it ( Read more... )

It seems like everybody on the east side who works downtown is coming to work early and leaving late so they can take Friday off. Both my morning and evening commutes have been much heavier than normal ( Read more... )

I hate that my commute is so long, I feel guilty for my car's gas consumption and emissions, and I dislike the inconvenience of grocery shopping when the nearest grocery is 8 miles away. But last night the stars were bright and filled my sky, then later the only light shining into my window was from the moon. These are the minuses and pluses of ( Read more... )

My car almost hit a deer yesterday. unnamed525 was driving us in my Jeep Cherokee down to his father and stepmother's house in rural Ohio (border of Fayette and Pickaway Counties). It was close to 2pm, in broad daylight. Two does bounded across the road in front of us. As we watched them start to run into the field to our right, two other does followed ( Read more... )

So one of the first things I have learned about living in the country is that farmers work on Saturday. Specifically, the farmer who is currently housing his tractor in my garage until he can get a new pole barn built ( Read more... )

I'm lazy about house stuff, and for that reason renting suits me. For example, I still haven't fixed the plumbing problem under the sink that I wrote about last week. Basically I have decided that I don't really need cold water in the kitchen all that much, so I don't see the pressing need to fix it right away. I'll attack it when I feel the ( Read more... )