Six below and windy.  Yikes!  We’ve been having quite the winter weather.  The last week has been a good one for staying indoors.  Or so I hear.  Rascal himself never checks the thermometer.  No number that might appear there would present an obstacle to his outdoor perambulations.  His built-in fur coat keeps the cold off… Continue reading Weather-Advisory Weather

This is more like it.   It snowed last night.  The moment you opened your eyes this morning, you could tell there was snow on the ground.  You didn’t need to get up and look out a window to tell, because the world is so bright.  Reflecting off all that snow on the ground.  Ahh.     … Continue reading Good Snow

     Quite unexpectedly, my husband got 2024 off to an auspicious start on New Year’s Day.  Having decided on scrambled eggs for breakfast, he selected a couple of jumbos from the carton, and cracked them into a bowl.  Then he called me over to look.  Both the eggs had double yolks.  I thought maybe he’d… Continue reading New Year

This year brought us new understanding of a white Christmas.  We had one.  There just wasn’t any snow.  The whiteness was fog, thickened occasionally by drizzle.  The weather was quite pretty, in a muffled, damp sort of way that didn’t involve the creating of any snowman, or any sledding or skating.  Christmas lights, and Christmas… Continue reading Outro

There’s such thin ice on the water in the little no-name pond north of us that little dots of open water perforate it.  A breeze ruffled the dots as the dog and I walked past the pond this morning, causing the ice to undulate with the water.  It was quite wonderful to see, and we… Continue reading Merry Christmas

     My husband had an errand to run across town this morning and suggested he drop the dog and me off at Gallup Park for a walk, then collect us again on his way home.  Terrific idea.  Inspired.  The weather was bright and sunny and not too cold—perfect for a stroll around Gallup Park.     … Continue reading Gallup

While walking in Thurston Woods this morning, just before the turn that would take us home, Rascal and I suddenly found our way blocked by a fallen tree.  It was a whopper, big enough that it blocked the path in two places.  The trunk lay across the path in one spot, and a major limb… Continue reading Happy Ending

We have an outlier squirrel running around the neighborhood, lately.  It seems to be a healthy, perfectly formed fox squirrel, which is what we mostly have around here.  Only, this particular fox squirrel has a black body.  So, black body and brown fox-squirrel-colored tail, a striking color combination.  Whether this is a fox-squirrel color variant… Continue reading Thanks Be

The neighborhood looks different today, this Friday after Thanksgiving.  There are scarcely any cars traveling on the roads, as travelers have arrived at their destinations and hardly anyone feels like rousing themselves, even the day after Thursday’s sumptuous meal.  On the other hand, there are extra cars parked in driveways and at the curb, having… Continue reading Thanksgiving

A friend asked me recently if I had loved my mother-in-law.  Absolutely.  I won the mother-in-law sweepstakes with Eleanore.  She was kind and thoughtful and loving.  She laughed easily.  And, as a special added bonus, she was a pie goddess.      This is a claim she would laugh off, but I present it here as… Continue reading Pie Goddess