Brian is putting up the lights today.

  As someone on one of my online forums put it yesterday, be thankful for a Zoom holiday get-together  - it means you can mute that obnoxiou...

  I have requested an investigation into an incident involving one of our rental cars - and it has been assigned to a young man named Alaska...

  A childhood without books - that would be no childhood.  That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and f...

  And she's off!  Virtually, again, this time to Baton Rouge, where I will be supporting Hurricane Laura-Marco-Delta-Zeta.  There hasn...

  It does not improve the character to be bullied.  Children are microcosms of peoples.  Treat them badly for long enough and then give them...

  Brian got to ring the bell at the Methodist church from 1045 to 1100 this morning. 

 

  image from Forbes magazine May you live in interesting times. ~ Sir Joseph Chamberlain

 

  I will be working one of the early voting sites for the county for the next two days.

  From Popular Science , December 1940 - a toy that launches and then shoots down a glider. Left-click to enlarge or go to Google Books. 

  Off to climb Sleeping Bear Dunes with my sisters and sister-in-law (masked and at six foot intervals).  Blogging will resume next Tuesday....

  I spot the hills  With yellow balls in autumn I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. ~ Ca...

  image from The Graphics Fairy Happy International Gin & Tonic Day - as Election Day gets closer, the more I need one of these.

 

 Photo from Wikipedia According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our prelates are hanged, not shot.  Please respect our tradi...

  from the Graphics Fairy

 

  I mage from Zedge A touch of cold in the Autumn night  I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. ...