Paradise ponders: sick weed whacker edition...   Well, I was planning on finishing the current round of weed-whacking this morning, but ......

Paradise ponders: sweet peas, cruel puppies, and weed whacking edition...   The scene at right is from this morning, in front of our garag...

Climate skeptics vindication?   A study ( PDF ) published in late June concludes with this: The conclusive findings of this research ar...

Paradise ponders: heat, shams, and pumps edition...   We just got a call from a sweet little old lady named Marlene.  We bought a hand-made ...

Paradise ponders: fireworks and Southern accents edition...   Last night Debbie and I drove 3 miles north to the town of Hyrum, to watch the...

Computer problems update...   TL;DR: My friend Tim's computer is now back up and running smoothly.  That took four hours of work this mo...

Thank you for your service...   It's the custom here in northern Utah (and most likely, in rural areas across this country) to pay respe...

I wonder ... how many Americans under the age of about 40 have ever actually read the Declaration of Independence?  I suspect it's a s...

Paradise ponders: mules and computer problems edition...   I spent most of yesterday catching up on bills, bookkeeping, and other such chore...

Mom would have loved our afternoon meal today...   Yesterday when we went grocery shopping, we picked up two pounds of fresh mahi mahi – on...

Paradise ponders: return to Paradise edition...   Well, we had quite the busy few days! Early on Wednesday morning, as planned, we set o...

Paradise ponders: dishwashers and pumps edition...   Yesterday there was an important event for us – our dishwasher got fixed!  A week or ...

Paradise ponders: visitor edition...   Well, Aleck L. showed up as planned, late Friday afternoon.  He left this morning.  We had such an e...

Paradise ponders: potted plant, vanishing power cords, and oodles of hay edition...   At right is our south field as of yesterday evening....

Paradise ponders: all kinds of stuff edition...   I hardly know where to start on this one! I guess last night, when we had a beautiful sc...