A fun morning ... is what we have in store.  We're headed first to the Christmas Wish Craft Boutique at the Box Elder County Fairgroun...

Acceptance...   Once again this year we were invited to the local LDS church ward's Christmas party.  We went last year, and greatly enj...

Sisyphus table...   If you're an ancient enough American, you may have learned enough about Greek mythology to have encountered Sisyphus...

Well, yesterday didn't go quite as expected...   Our house has two furnaces, one that heats the basement and first floor, the other for...

Baby, it's really cold outside!   Just 4°F as I write.  Sheesh!  And naturally our heater picked this morning to act up...

Just called ... Young's Lobster Pound in Maine to order lobsters for our Christmas dinner ( Lobster a l’Americaine is the planned ent...

Baby, it's cold outside...   Just 9°F (about -13°C) right now.  The snow the melted on our driveway is now solid ice, so it's slipp...

Last year at about this time ... I noticed that very few people seemed to think of December 7th as having any particular significance .  ...

Veteran's discounts...   They are very common around here, not so much in the San Diego area where we used to live, though a few nationa...

We love living in northern Utah ... for lots of reasons.  But this week we've discovered a few new reasons.  First, we found out that ...

The key to efficient snowplowing ... isn't finding the route for your snowplow that scrapes all the driveway/parking lot surface most ...

Paradise ponders: snow day edition...   We just had our first “real” snow of the season, with about 4" on the ground.  I took this ph...

Paradise ponders, a day of beginnings edition...   I spent a surprising amount of time yesterday working on a plan – for building a “rack...

Paradise ponders: just another nice day edition...   We did lots of running around today: to Home Depot for parts (they had everything I was...

Paradise ponders: kitchen lights, roast turkeys, and delicious pasta edition...   I completed a nice little project yesterday: installing ...

Paradise ponders: overdue updates edition...   First, Kalea the kitten: he's doing great !  As you can see in the video at right, hav...

Paradise ponders: this 'n that edition...   A few days ago Debbie and I took a drive over the mountains west of Clarkston, Utah – there...

Paradise ponders: post-Thanksgiving pain edition...   Our b'stilla yesterday was, we think, the best one we've made yet.  I did some...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!   Here in Casa Loco (aka Bin of Loonies and House of the Hopeless), we have a great deal to be thankful for. ...

Remembering...   It was four years ago on this day that my father died.  I have many good memories, but the feeling of loss is still very s...