Month: March 2025

     One of my husband’s sisters gave us an amaryllis for Christmas.  We took our time getting it started and have been rewarded this month with blooms of scarlet red.  Many blooms.  Six flowers on the first stalk, which is one more than on the most exuberant of amaryllises past.  Then along came a second… Continue reading Pilsner Pours

Tuesday morning’s walk started out in the usual way, the dog and I setting out in the sunshine to see, or in his case, sniff, what was what on a sunny late-winter day.  Before we’d gone four houses from our door, we were well and truly astonished.  We surprised a turkey on the other side… Continue reading Turkey Surprise

We all have favorite signs that spring may, in fact, be on the way.  The appearance of robins in these northern climes used to be a reliable indicator.  But with climate change, quite a few robins now elect not to fly south for the winter, hanging around up here year round.  Robins are still a… Continue reading Birds and Bikes

Tuesday night, we celebrated our anniversary at Cleary’s Pub in Chelsea, and Pat Cleary sat down with us for a while.  He told us the recent remodeling that closed the restaurant for three days took place in the kitchen.  He had the floor replaced.  Also, “the line.”  The line is where the staff work as… Continue reading Shaking Pompoms