Paradise ponders...  Debbie and I had a lovely day yesterday.  In the morning we made a new recipe for us, a chicken casserole with biscuit...

Merry Christmas, everyone!   And now anybody reading this blog: go be with your friends and family!

Christmas in Paradise...   We went to sleep last night with our heads full of beautiful memories... In the late afternoon we set off to vi...

Paradise ponders...   I spent most of the day yesterday plowing our friend and neighbor Tim D.'s driveway, then ours, and shoveling snow...

Paradise pleasures...  We had a really nice day yesterday, and the reason is entirely due to people we've met since moving to Paradise....

It's a winter wonderland here...   We've got about a foot of snow on the ground down here in Paradise.  My brother Scott, up in Ne...

Shopping in Texas...   Via my pistol-packing, turkey-roasting mom:

Paradise ponders...   A busy day here yesterday, mostly good, but with one oddity and ending on a very sad note. I delivered a chocolate c...

Homesick snowbird...   Via my pistol-packing, rock-painting mama: In Vero Beach, Florida the other day, there was a bumper sticker on a pa...

Paradise ponders...   It's snowing, right on schedule, right at the beginning of our forecast for a Snowpacalypse.  We're snug as bu...

Paradise ponders...   A good part of my day today was on one of my least favorite chores: bookkeeping.  Yuk!  I scanned and entered about ...

This is like ... the exact opposite of last winter, which was warm and largely snow-free.  At this point last year we'd only had a coup...

Where, oh where ... shall we look for the next Democratic presidential candidate?  Via my mogul brother Mark, who has the misfortune to l...

Politically incorrect joke of the day... Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, 'Isn...

Paradise ponders...  It's early morning on a white Paradise.  I took the photo at right a few minutes ago from our (second floor) TV ...

Pluto ... is a very weird place, as evidenced by this recently downlinked photo from New Horizon's flyby a few months ago.  What the h...

The moons of Saturn ... all lined up for Cassini to photograph ...

The dunes of Mars ... as seen by the Curiosity rover, up close and personal.  Click to embiggen...

Potential advance in Alzheimer's treatment...   This sounds very hopeful!

Flash mob!   Via my pistol-packing, turkey dinner-cooking mom: