I’ve never been one of those “Tanning Guy” types. In the summer, you’ll often see people lying out in the park or next to swimming pools and definitely on beaches, just to brown their skin, but not me. I’ve never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My drawing doesn’t do it service, to show what a luminary display can look like in a neighborhood. So if you’ve never seen one, here’s what they can look like.
This particular “Great Conjunction” has only happened, before today, three times since 1200. I guess I’ll just have to wait for the next time it happens to see it. Well, and to make sure I’m living somewhere that’s not always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems that every winter, when the television weathermen and women make their forecasts, the public get angry when they predict a snowstorm and it doesn’t snow. Then, if they don’t predict a snowstorm and it does snow, they get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If I come off as a lazy bastard here, well, that’s probably partially correct. I usually wait as long as I can before raking my yard because, this is true from wherever I’ve lived, there always seems to be one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe hearing the school bus yesterday, announcing the first day of the school year, coupled with the recent days of cooler weather, but I’ve feeling waves of nostalgia lately. It’s true, that I enjoy the weather at this time of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I probably should have paid attention to the weather report last night. Sure, after I lay the sand between the stones in order to bond them, I wet the sand with a garden hose, but then I need the warm,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Glass block windows are great for security and not bad at keeping the cold out in the winter, but as for seeing outside… not so good. I suppose being so near the ground as these windows are doesn’t help.
I suppose I could have walked around the neighborhood knocking on doors (because I can’t see all the backyards so there may be homes with swimming pools that I’m unaware of) asking people of they’re the owners of the beach[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, that’s correct. I drove like a bat-out-of-hell to get home before my newly, fully clean car got hit with one rain drop. And I made it! I know, eventually, it’s going to get dirty, but I wanted to lengthen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…