Rainy Daze
Click for a brief vidclip of some of the wetstuff that fell to earth this last day of 2005.
Re: Solutions
That time already? Yes, it’s that day at the the dying of the year that I trot out the usual plans and ideas I have for the year about to come. I wouldn’t say I have a great track record in achieving everything I resolve to accomplish, but my average is perhaps better than some, …
Ursa Major
Susan and I just finished watching Grizzly Man, the documentary by Werner Herzog on Timothy Treadwell who found his life’s calling — and death — living for months at a time among the grizzlies of the Alaskan peninsula’s Katmai National Park. Treadwell first came to my attention in the ’90s when his book Among Grizzlies: …
Southern Comfort
It’s a little thing really. But I’ve had Sirius satellite radio for about a year. Susan got it for me last Christmas. Had it installed in my truck and even sprung for the boombox that the car unit can plug into so we have it in the house or just about anywhere. Without going into …
Gonna Go Get Stuck
In a few minutes Susan will be arriving from work to pick me up. We have a 4:15 p.m. appointment to get flu shots. It’ll be my first ever, but after both of us got knocked down by it last winter (and I mean really knocked down; I missed three days of work), getting them …
That’s Cat
Just a couple images I grabbed this morning of Pumpkin sitting and napping in the sunny section of the library, and one of the neighborhood strays we dubbed Pico grabbing a snack on the porch. • I think you can click on them for biggification.
The Best Part Of Waking Up…
Sorry to dampen your day if these two stories haven’t made their way to you yet, but the first two news articles to land in front of my eyes this morning are just so very very life-affirming. Makes me want to sing “Joy to the World” real loud. The first detailed the “honor killings” committed …