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Neighborhood Relations
Our little gravel road is crawling with cats. For the past few years, the no-tailed cat with the a meow as big as his body has considered our neighborhood his happy hunting ground. But apparently, he’s been bragging a little to loudly about the fat, tasty mice,...
Crawdad Worship
Thankfully, a few days of warm weather made short work of our snow cover earlier this month. As the snow piles shrank, huge puddles formed around storm sewers. Many of them were plugged with debris carried by the flowing water. All that water made me wish for duck...
Cream of Broccoli Soup
A friend of mine said her husband enjoys the soup recipes I’ve posted in the last few months. So before spring and summer take over, here’s one more easy soup recipe that’s easy to modify. A dear friend, Johnny Darling, gave me the recipe during the summer of 1982. We...
A Forkliftful of Spring
Signs of spring have multiplied this wee. The sky has been more blue than gray, the temperatures are warming, the snow piles are almost gone, and the grass is greening. Still, this morning’s brisk wind made my walk chilly, so chilly I wore my winter pants and needed a...
Teen Brains
Since the weather has improved, I’ve been enjoying walks along our gravel road after an almost two months hiatus. Now and then, I take a long hike towards town, passing the grocery story and the community college to get to the lovely walking trail in the park. But...
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Steven Frye and Hugh Laurie have been a favorite comedy team at our house since the Jeeves and Wooster series first aired on Masterpiece Theater in the 1990s. Our kids grew up watching the dramatizations of P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novels about life in upper class...