26

September

Autumn breezes

The first morning of Autumn dawned cloudy and cool. The cool air drifting in through the open windows offered a welcome relief from sizzling summer temperatures. I kept the windows open as much as possible over the next few days, and the house is now wonderfully aired out. I also took advantage of those cool [...]

19

September

Now I know why flamingos stand on one leg

Having used free internet access at a motel for the first time at the balloon bash I recently attended, I couldn’t resist clicking on a story about The High Price Of Internet Access in other countries. I was surprised to learn some hotels and motels charge outrageous rates for internet access. What was even more [...]

5

September

Yes please on the Opera upgrade. No thanks on the spinning death ball

Tuesday Opera came out with their latest and greatest browser version so l downloaded it and have been taking it for a really good spin around the web this past week. Since I run the web on a high speed satellite connection the turbo feature is not necessary for me, but if it works as [...]

29

August

The stuck snake

I had put off trimming over there as long as I could, and with cordless weed whacker in hand, set about bringing clean cut order to wildly growing grass chaos. After going down the long side of the porch room I started work on the area near the step coming out of the man room. [...]

12

July

No place for those with arachnophobia

I turned my foot sideways, and gently scooted another tarantula out of the way with it. This was the third one I had to gently scoot out of the way as I went about my watering routine. As I watched the latest angry arachnid crawl off in a huff, it once again occurred to me [...]