Wind howling outside confirming winter weather advisory of snow starting tonight and continuing all day tomorrow with predicted accumulation perhaps a foot or more.  That will most definitely complicate my schedule this week. We’ll see.  Such dire predictions have been … Continue reading →

A snowy afternoon.  Doesn’t look like serious accumulation yet.  Glad I installed a new spark plug in the snow blower, which responded by starting up in a test run.  Carol sleeping in a half sitting up position with a weighted … Continue reading →

Sunday night after another long, quiet, isolated and isolating weekend.  We are in that period between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the networks, aware that people’s attention is elsewhere, stop broadcasting new material.  So, no Masterpiece episodes tonight.  But there was … Continue reading →

Carol sleeping noisily on the sofa, this Thanksgiving night.  The day, predictably, was quiet, folks everywhere celebrating the holiday each their own way. In the early afternoon, the pastor of the Methodist church Carol sometimes attended, called up to say … Continue reading →