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The holiday season “officially” came to an end last Sunday evening...with a bit of a sputter. “Officially,” with quotes, looks, well, much more official than just plain old officially, standing there all by its lonesome self.
“Officially” is written with confidence. Because Sunday evening was when...
‘Tis the season for tradition...fa la la la la la la...
By the way, did you know that “‘Tis” is an “old,” as in “very old contraction of ‘it is’”?
Dictionary.com was kind enough to inform me that “the apostrophe replaces the ‘i’ in the word ‘it’ to create ‘tis.”
It seems that ‘tis was a “fan...
The holiday season has arrived. Christmas is less than two weeks away. Which does not seem possible.
With the holidays in full swing, our thoughts turn, of course, to vultures.
Truthfully, it’s hard not to think about vultures these days. Some of the radio stations in our little corner of the...
Maybe we should all be used to such things by now. For some reason, the weather prognosticators were suggesting on Sunday evening that there was a “chance” for snow flurries.
So it was a bit of a surprise when I looked out the window Monday morning and saw that “flurries” had accumulated on the...
Truthfully, it might have been hard to determine who was more surprised by a rather brief encounter which occurred during the second afternoon of November at a popular Southern Illinois lake.
The encounter involved a creature of the four-legged variety and another critter with a mere two legs.
The...
Before we get started on the good stuff, let me just say that I looked at the calendar on Monday, just to make sure it was still November...and not December or January.
At the time this was being crafted on Monday morning, the sky was gray...the wind was blowing...light, drizzly precipitation had...
‘Tis the season for eyes glowing in the dark of night as a critter creeps in your direction...hissing...spitting...and then you realize that the critter is your own pet cat.
One day last week, Bob went on an adventure. We have two pet kitties. Bob is the boisterous one. Full of energy. Capable of...
As we sometimes do, this week you will be getting a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...
...first up, a mea culpa, which is fancy Latin, I think, for oops.
Last week, I shared my excitement about getting to touch a slice of rock from the moon. I said that the rock was about 4 billion...
Last Saturday night, I stepped out in our front yard to take a look at the moon. Did the same thing Sunday night.
By Sunday night, a full moon was shining bright in a clear October sky. At one point on Saturday night, a wisp of a cloud appeared near the moon, creating a bit of a ghost-like image. A...
Our sinuses seem to be improving. Maybe it was the drastic change in the weather. By the way, all of those who like the cooler temperatures, please raise your hand. A little bit more rain would be nice, too.
My recent little sniffly sinus adventure didn’t keep me from trying to go for a walk every...
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