Boo!
tl;dr!? Happy Halloween! On Sunday, October 27 between 1 and 4 PM in the afternoon, I was visited by all manner of ghosts, goblins, Spider-Mans, Super-Mans, a dinosaur, beautiful princesses and their kin in attendance. It was a...
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How times change: Rocket Arugula
Me, a child looking at some green salady thing Mom was dishing up: “What’s this?” Mom: Rocket. Mom goes on to explain she found it growing wild between the garden and the cornfield and washed up, it will be...
Read MoreA sundry assortment of tidbits.
Credit where credit is due.  My father loved the phrase “sundry assortment” with its embedded redundancy. An assorted assortment with its, oh, I don’t know, je ne sais quoi quality to it.  This post feels like...
Read MoreA sundry assortment of snapshots.
Here’s a sundry assortment of snapshot thoughts taken over the last week. Enjoy! Or not. Where I was on 2001.09.11. The radio announced the plane hitting the first World Trade Center tower on the drive to drop my...
Read MoreTilting toward windmills …
Ah! Finally a post on something other than politics. Recently I tripped across an article on a new small output, small wind turbine whose design is meant to resemble a tree! And so I was thrown back down memory lane to the set...
Read MoreFearless Girl, Charging Bull
As a child raised in Wisconsin farm country, I tip-toed past the pasture of a working farm where a snorting bull complete with a ring in his nose, a short tether and fire in his belly would pound the ground if he caught wind of...
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