Let’s flush squandering instead of precious time

Two Sundays ago, I plopped some early spring crop seeds into the containers on my back deck. Some of the seed was from 2005, so I wasn’t terribly hopeful that they’d grow. Also, something has messed a little with the containers and a few of my fudgecicle stick markers are missing. Erring [...]

Let’s Yak About Art: Mata Ortiz

My previous post segues nicely into this session of Let’s Yak About Art. . The last time Lew and I had dinner with his Wednesday Boys’ Night Out buddies, and their wives, the woman sitting closest to me, Marcia, shared with me about Mata Ortiz. She encouraged me to read about this incredible artist [...]

Discover the eggs benedict inside your poached egg

EDIT: Fixed formatting at work. A post with no paragraphs drives me crazy.
Our local fish wrapper featured a front page article on how home economics is redefined in the 21st Century, supposedly redefined by the “progressive” home ec. classes offered in our district. Rather than learning sewing or cooking, according to the [...]

Here it is, Wednesday again and I almost miss it

She lives =).  I’m okay, a little run down from a nasty sinus infection brought on by allergies and some sort of viral thingie, but I’m getting better. Rosie is dealing with the same thing, and she been feeling much worse.  She ended up with an ear infection and swollen tonsils.  No strep, though, so [...]

The Good Zed

I’m a big advocate for sleep. I can’t function well at all without getting 8 hours of sleep, something my life has been lacking lately. I’m in this pattern of depriving myself of 8 hours during the week by going to bed late, struggling to wake up at a decent time in the [...]

It’s Sunday; how’s the exercise commitment going?

Hello, Hello! What are a few of your goals for this week?  I’ve been doing pretty good on the over-eating issue until today.  At dinner, I totally pigged out.  On the flip side, I took a three mile walk, but I think I undid much of the good from the walk. Last go around, I [...]

Announcing….

…. the return of my froggie friends.  I could hear them this evening, even though the window wasn’t open.  It’s the first time I’ve heard them since early November. Ribbit =)