A Different Kind Of Bucket Challenge

Lately (and to the point of ad nauseum in my less-than-humble opinion) there’s been a trend fadding or a fad trending called the ALS Bucket Challenge, nobly started to raise money for research into Lou Gehrig’s Disease, but now everybody’s seemingly dumping buckets of iced water over their heads and challenging everybody else to do …

Whadda Pane In The Glass

The saga began more than two years ago when Ranger, while barking at a worker outside lunged toward the guy from behind the closed window in the study and cracked a lower pane. For what was supposed to be a very short-term solution, I plugged up the hole with a piece of cardboard, and just …

Rapid Growth

Just an update on the planter boxes I suspended from the south steps’ handrail. On June 11 it looked like this: And this afternoon, it’s looking like this, full of baby basil and cilantro and sunflowers: I’ve totally overpopulated it, but it’s certainly a purty thang to look at.