I’m not really a fan of jigsaw puzzles. I’ve done several in my time, but I don’t get all goosebumply at the thought of putting together pieces of anything. So that can’t explain why I dropped everything on Saturday after Susan presented me with a box full of the shattered remains of two dishes that …
The dawning day painted the air an eerie orange, but I didn’t know why until I ventured outside with Shadow for our walk and I found an ominous smoke cloud hovering over Silver Lake and its surroundings. (larger version and a couple more images found here) From a vantage point up on Micheltorena I snapped …
It’s the rare Super Bowl that never fails to disappoint, and yesterday’s was not one of them. Though I’ve been a life-long fan of the Steelers, I aligned with the Seahawks for two reasons: 1) with everything I read and heard Seattle apparently had no chance to win and 2) Shaun Alexander, one of the …
If it’s Sunday, it’s weigh-in day and I met the first proof this ain’t going to be a nice and steady downhill ride. The scale showed me that I actually gained back a pound, putting me at 252. Very disappointing considering my caloric intake was very well monitored this past week. But I’m not going …
It’s a given that on the weekends when we let the cats out you can usually find one — maybe two — crashed comfortably on the lounge in the backyard, but rare is it that three show up (from left: Pepper, Pumpkin and Jiggy). Click image to biggify the cuteness.
So I bought this scythe/chopper thingy at the hardware store yesterday and spent a nice hour of the afternoon in the backyard working off some of the Hershey’s Kisses I’d indulged in earlier in the day. The thing is shape something like a golf club so I was swinging away at the overgrowing grass and …
OK, so I blew it today, which is a negative way of saying I gave into an urge. At the market today shopping for groceries I tossed an 11-ounce bag of the new peanut butter-filled Hershey’s kisses into the cart and when I got home and had a healthy lunch of soup and sardines, I …