Debbie and mom update...   That beautiful smiling lady at right is Debbie, yesterday, when I managed to sneak in a kitten for her to pampe...

Paradise ponders...   It's Memorial Day, and I'm remembering the two people I knew who were killed in Vietnam, the one I knew who ...

Paradise ponders...   When I let the puppies outside for their first outing this morning, even before my morning caffeine I couldn't hel...

Debbie update...   She's doing great!  On Friday she was transferred into the Transitional Care Unit (TCU), where they've already st...

Puppy videos...   Lots more like the one at right by going here !

Of Debbie, mom, puppies, and kittens...   What an eventful week this has been!  And I thought retirement was going to be calm, peaceful and ...

Debbie update...  She's in surgery as I write.  The past few days have seen her steadily improve, in the sense that swelling in her kne...

Well, you just never know ... what life is going to hand you.  All the more reason to take advantage of every moment you have with the peop...

Paradise ponders...   Do you know what's in the photo (mine) at right?  It's a turkey egg, given to us by Michelle H., a friend he...

Paradise babies...   We've got five kittens in our “isolation room” (a bathroom in our basement that we never use), and our neighbor...

We're back...   Not too many ponders, though.  I'm too tired for that :) When I went out to Virginia to visit my mom, my intent wa...

It's good to be overweight!  According to this study studying a group for the ten years 2003 to 2013, the BMI associated with the lowe...

Night in Paradise...   I woke early this morning, around 2 am, and couldn't get back to sleep.  After guzzling a cup of tea, I headed ou...

Light blogging alert!   I will be traveling (or getting ready to do so) for the next week – I'm heading back to Virginia to visit with m...

Paradise ponders...   My mom's in the hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, and of course we're concerned for her.  Send any good t...

Paradise ponders...  Debbie's making her famous Amish beef stew today.  That means I had “chopping duty”: cutting up the meat and (lots...

Paradise ponders...   I'm working away at setting up my office today.  As I write, I have 8 of 14 panels mounted.  They look (and work) ...

Tornado in Colorado...   Sent along by friend, former colleague, and Idaho mogul-of-everything Doug S.  For some reason the default came...

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Paradise ponders...   So this morning I took a couple of dog photos (below).  That's Miki the field spaniel on the left, and Race the sm...