Over the edge...   Reading the news yesterday about the latest irrational howls for gun control sent me over the edge.  If you want to know ...

Bloody Wednesday...   That's what it was for us, starting at around 3 pm yesterday afternoon.  We took delivery of a rug for a friend, a...

Things you find when cleaning up...   My office has been a complete disaster ever since my mom died, just over a year and a half ago.  That...

Winter in Paradise...   I walked outside this morning into sunshine, most welcome after a week or so of being socked in (that's a shot...

The number of curses per minute ... has declined to its normal level (hear zero) around my office, because I finished doing our 2017 income ...

I just ... walked back into my office after running some errands.  It's time for me to get back to work on our taxes, not exactly my fa...

Solution implemented!   The freezing UPS problem I devised a solution for is now fixed.  Yay!  And I did it exactly the way I had planned. ...

Solution devised...   A solution for my frozen UPS problem, that is.  Immediately below my UPS's current location is the 12 foot high ce...

The cat ... soon to be formerly known as “Tigger”.  This is the cat we adopted yesterday.  She seems reasonably content with her lot, but...

Morning, deer, and a few other things...   When there was just barely enough light to see this morning, I looked out to our bird feeders t...

A wintry drive...   Our neighbors Gary and Elayne S. own a gigantic 4WD pickup, and yesterday after lunch together we went on a drive arou...

Well, this I didn't expect!  When I went out to my barn office this morning, I was surprised to find that my iMac Pro was powered down...

Another titanium artifact.. .  This is made by the same folks who made the titanium dice.  This is a key-chain clip, 6 cm (about 2 1/4...

Scenes from winter in Paradise...   By request, at right is my snow plowing rig: my Kubota B26 with a 400 lb. weight on the back and the h...

Red-winged blackbirds are here...   This is a couple of months early for them.  It must have been our warm spell that brought them, and they...

A very German case...   The little aluminum “suitcase” at right holds a pair of binoculars that we just bought.  The case cracked me up – ...

Lazy Susan shelves...   In our kitchen cabinetry there are two corner cabinets in the same corner: one below the counter-top, the other ab...

Something probably only an old fart like me would marvel at...   I have no interest in dice or anything generally done with them.  But the...

Weather forecasters have the best job...   They never have to be right!  Two days ago, our forecast called for 1 to 3 inches of snow yester...

Blogiversary today...   On this day thirteen years ago I made the first post on this blog.  I haven't posted every single day, but I...