Category Archives: REALITY

The summer’s been tied up more than expected with writing short stories hypertext style but it’s finally over and I’m looking forward to some relaxing (though provocative) reading. I’ve read a very few pages here and there with any number … Continue reading →

With only nine more days of the 100 Days Project to go, I’m looking forward to READING! It’s been a full three months of nothing but writing hypertext short stories to the exclusion of just about all else. I’ll remember … Continue reading →

Big deal. The first real harvesting of beans and hot peppers. There’s some parsley and dill but not much else. And some poppy seeds. No, not those kind of poppies. This is just the California poppy which is much, much … Continue reading →

Last year the chives looked like lawn grass. I left them in and this year they’ve blossomed and filled out like pudgy toddlers. Twice this year I pulled out a handful thinking they were the wild garlic I made a … Continue reading →

Very strange world today, where if someone wants something that other people have, they seem to think that the government or their friends and neighbors owe it to them to provide it. Ran into a couple items on Twitter and … Continue reading →

A couple decades ago, the engineer who designed it would have been fired. Nowadays, it passes and is sold to a wearily accepting public:  Can you tell me why anyone would use metal parts that rust in a toilet tank? … Continue reading →

Ran across this headline in the MSNBC online this morning: Three’s company in racy Calvin Klein Billboard – Massive NYC billboard shows woman on top of man kissing another man. The article states there are some people who think this … Continue reading →

Really trying hard to get the garden in but it’s just a helluva job with no tiller (hand weeding ain’t easy) and I need to do something about the soil. Somehow got Fusarium Wilt on last year’s beautiful tomato plants … Continue reading →

Yes I know; where have I been? Haven’t I been reading and why haven’t I posted about literature? Well for one thing, it’s spring and the seeds that hide in the corners of paper packets and the three-kinds-of-tomatoes and two-hot-one-sweet-pepper … Continue reading →

Had been meaning to make new drapes for the living room for a long time, and now that I’ve finished them, I’m not nuts about my choice of fabric and wish I’d waited to coordinate it with the rest of … Continue reading →

Tarot cards hold a mystery that appeals to the creative mind, and Barbara over at the Shrinking Violet has posted an extremely interesting and enlightening entry loaded with links for the interested and the curious: World Tarot Day Must admit … Continue reading →

Finishing up the living room curtains, the hardest part–the valance–already done and waiting for a final ironing and hanging. Tried to make up my mind by today’s end of sale to buy couch covering material but just couldn’t decide which … Continue reading →

Lazy day with a little of this and a little of that, catching up and getting ahead with spring cleaning, sewing, paperwork, shop business, yardwork and still managing to read a little, write a little, and stick in a dental … Continue reading →