Monthly Archives: April 2007

4 hours one way. Okay, not normally. Just when there’s a foot of really wet snow and trees all over the road. The landscape really is gorgeous … if only people weren’t so insistent on always getting to places with … Continue reading →

Every sizable tree branch I see has a several-inches-high crest of snow. Considering that we’re surrounded by trees of all kinds, we look out into a beautiful scene. That beauty has us up and out of bed and getting ready … Continue reading →

A number of things have conspired recently to fill our lives with confusion: – It’s the middle of April (Easter’s come and gone) but we’re expecting snow tomorrow. This has some strange effects: by now we’re carrying a heavy burden … Continue reading →

“Time is issued to spinster ladies of wealth in long white ribbons.  These they wind round and round, round and round, assisted by five female servants, a butler, a fine Mexican parrot, regular meals, Mudie’s library, and friends dropping in.” … Continue reading →

Sydney got meal worms in the mail today. Yup, a live shipment of worms. He is worried about the birds that poured into Ithaca when it was warm and now have no bugs to eat once the temperatures dropped. So … Continue reading →

A lovely choice for an odd book award: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification. Sydney

Clotheslines are banned or restricted for about sixty million Americans?! What kind of repressive country is this? Unfortunately, I don’t think I live in a neighbourhood that bans clotheslines, because I would really like to put up a forbidden clothesline … Continue reading →

I guess that takes the pressure off Sydney to get out there and plant his garden! The bathroom looks very pretty with blue-and-white tiles neatly laid all over the floor.  But we can’t walk on it for a few days, … Continue reading →

Sydney and I will be in and out a bit more than usual in the next few days.  Our bathroom is being tiled and, since the bathroom is the room that connects bedroom and living room (the only two other … Continue reading →

Well. Never mind tobacco, alcohol, and so on. The real killer is salt, at 150,000 American deaths annually, according to the CSPI. Does anyone know what happened/is happening to the CSPI’s lawsuit? Sydney P.S. I promise the next post will … Continue reading →