Sitting Outside
The Wife was watching a TV show on her computer, and the volume was really loud. With lots of people shouting. And I just wanted to go out and write, and think about my presentation Wednesday, and so I took… Continue Reading
Critters
The Fix Is In
A service call from Time Warner Cable came out to Soffit House Saturday. The guy was very nice and he took a lot of time to look around and figure out what the problem was. Eventually, he decided to swap… Continue Reading
Limited Budget Luxuries
Amba asks: what luxuries would you not give up even if you had to live on a limited budget? Some, who have lived on truly limited budgets, would scoff at such a question – the answer, they would say, is… Continue Reading
A Robot Is A Dog’s Best Friend
Astonishingly cute. Hat tip to the prolific Andrew Sullivan.
Just Say No To Elephant Hunting
I understand about hunting and its role in contemporary wildlife management. Really, I do. Without hunters taking deer, for instance, America’s forested and semi-forested lands would soon be absolutely overrun with the creatures, which would within a year or two… Continue Reading
Another Smart Critter
Uno!
For the first time in 131 competitions, a beagle has won the Westminster Dog Show. Fifteen inches long, playful when not performing, and the singer of a heart-melting “ahh-rooooh!” howl when he won earlier rounds of competition, cuter-than-can-be-believed Uno also… Continue Reading
Growl Umm Numm Numm
I often marvel at how quickly my dog eats her food. It’s as though she were starving; she wolfs it down as fast as possible. Whenever there is not a significant price difference, I buy the smaller-sized dog food so… Continue Reading
Doggie-Friendly Wanderlust
As many of my friends know, I have a penchant for travel, for going to places different than my usual haunts. Even when we lived in a place as beautiful as Tennessee, I found that being in the same old… Continue Reading
Those Damn Cats
The Wife goes to bed these days at something like 7:30 in the evening. (She gets up very early, too, which is why it seems on some days I barely see her.) So that leaves me on many nights to… Continue Reading