Cat Prints
Saturday - 01/30/2021 — I’ve shared a couple of times before about the way cats have always been prone to walk through paint. The photos
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- Jan 29, 2021
Plain Brown Wrapper
Friday – 01/29/2021 - ... I won’t have to blush quite so much as I reveal my inner workings.
- Jan 28, 2021
First Sign of Civilization
Thursday – 01/28/2021 — Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of
- Jan 27, 2021
Incubation Timeline
Wednesday – 01/27/2021 — I heard on NPR a couple of days ago that the COVID death toll is expected to top 500,000 within the next month, so
- Jan 26, 2021
Art of Crochet
Tuesday – 01/26/2021 — Don’t you wonder where people come up with these ideas? I’d suggest that a lot of such inspirations occur when
- Jan 25, 2021
Heart Beet
Monday – 01/25/2021 — When I first looked at this photo, I thought it was a beet with all the roots attached. But the
- Jan 23, 2021
More Cats?
Saturday – 01/23/2021 — You may not think our Saturday laugh this week is very funny, but I'm posting it anyway. As I watched Fuzzy Britches
- Jan 22, 2021
Sacha Inchi
Friday - 01/22/2021 — I’m enjoying the fact that Daily Harvest places the ingredients of their meals right there in big letters on each
- Jan 21, 2021
Dam!
Northern California is in the process of removing four dams on the Klamath River. The
- Jan 20, 2021
Collage
My grandchildren used to attend a middle school that had this highly creative cover on their yearbook a couple of
- Jan 19, 2021
How to Tow an Iceberg
Tuesday - 01/19/2021 — Haven’t you always wanted to know how to tow an iceberg? Especially one that’s collected a lot of fresh water like
- Jan 18, 2021
Surprises Me
It never fails to amaze me when I walk outside this time of year and find this kind of evidence of spring: flowers springing
- Jan 16, 2021
Wheat-Free
Exactly two months ago, I began to eat wheat-free meals. Why?
I’m glad you asked.
- Jan 15, 2021
Passive Buildings
While they’re building it, they’re going to use a robot dog (named Spot, of course)
- Jan 14, 2021
Search History
I keep seeing all these warnings about the information collected by super-computers. They know my search history. Oh dear…
- Jan 13, 2021
Dead, but Still Useful
This is a tree coming upon the end of its life cycle. It died a number of years ago, and I had to have the top of it cut off, including
- Jan 12, 2021
Trees are Poems
When I was a little kid, I thought that poem by Joyce Kilmer (“I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree”) was great poetry
- Jan 11, 2021
Not Too Much
We live in an age of irresponsible excess. My son is something of a role model for me since he lives in a completely self-contained van
- Jan 9, 2021
Moo!
Okay. This is a good one for the Saturday laugh. It’s a report on NPR about a type of seaweed that can reduce the amount of
- Jan 8, 2021
No "Too" Around Here
Friday - 01/08/2021 — I’d like to explain something. If you and I have ever talked on the phone, and if you’ve ever signed off by saying,...
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