We have had some welcome warmer days recently. The ice is melting on the Bay and on the lakes and sliding off the roof. It rains a little each night, the mornings are misty. The birds are invisible. Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I were on our favorite woods trail when I heard a barking […]
No invisible birds in the mist today, although they’re coming soon. For one thing, it’s a beautiful day and you deserve to see some nice blue skies. For another, we have presents – I love presents – and they’re all in black and white. Let’s begin with the blue skies. Now the presents. Every now […]
What can I say, I press “Publish” and my post goes up, amateur snapshots and all. An hour or so later I open my email to discover the weekly Michigan Pic from Babs Young: Babs is better. On the other hand, she is persuaded, based on that very view, that spring is still a long way […]
Language is a tricky thing. That’s one of the things I like about it. Also one of the things about it that I distrust. Consider the ambiguous note on report cards and in personnel files–Exceeds expectations. On its face, that must be good, probably better than Fails to meet expectations. But whose expectations? And what […]
Yesterday morning we had more snow. The sun came out and drove it away, but this morning we had more snow again. Is there no end to it? Apparently not. But never mind. Even in the depth of despair there is healing for the frozen spirit. Yesterday was a case in point. Babs invited me to breakfast […]
La Mirada Bob’s voluminous archives contained many memories, lots of Inexplicable Stuff, and some surprises for his daughters as we sorted through it all. One of these was the military veteran headstone order for my grandmother, based on her honorable service as a Yeoman 3rd Class in the United States Navy reserve during World War I. […]
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