Just a quick observation: There are few things in life more annoying than having someone tell you to do the things you were going to do anyway, one second before you do them. Abandonedography is a Tumblr site devoted to abandoned places photography. There’s something strangely fascinating about this sort of thing. I look at [...]

Okay, I need to stop talking about the weather and the puppy but I will just say that it looks like today is going to be a nice day. The sun is shining and it’s supposed to warm up later. And the puppy? Yes, she is still alive and so am I. A lot of [...]

Cats are infamous for being curious but if you spend a few hours with a dog, especially a young one, it is clear that they are curious too. They’re just curious about different things. Cats are curious about their environment. Dogs are curious about people and the things people do. By the way, I wonder [...]

I think all this cold, gloomy weather is making me… well, not really depressed. You can’t use that word anymore for just plain, ordinary “feeling down and out of sorts.” But, you know… I’m getting really, seriously tired of it. I thought today was supposed to be a nicer day but it is very dark [...]

I feel like my life is consumed by puppy watching right now. I don’t have time for anything else. She follows me constantly and if I walk away from her and she can’t follow she cries like someone is beating her. But if she walks away from me it usually means she’s going to go [...]

… but sometimes you just can’t get out of a thing. This is our new friend Kiki. She is a border collie. She is very unhappy in this picture because I’m staying just out of her reach so I can get the picture. Most of the pictures of her came out blurry because of her [...]

Today is Earth Day. The first Earth Day, according to Wikipedia, was in 1970. I think it was several years later that I first became aware of its existence. Some Earth Days I plant something to “celebrate” but I’m not planning to do that today. Maybe I’ll pull some Bermuda grass out of the flower [...]

Seriously? We’re still talking about this? Sweetie, I think you better check your calendar. The 70′s were over a while ago. In case you missed it, most of us decided that we still want to wear bras, mainly because they make clothes look better, but we also decided that everyone has the right to not [...]

Kelly asks “Do you like thunderstorms?”. Thunderstorms scare me a little bit but not as much as they used to, I guess. We’re having a big one right now that promises to last all day. The worst thing about thunderstorms, for this Internet dependent gal, is that our satellite Internet connection comes and goes on [...]

We don’t really do anything to celebrate Easter. When I was a kid Easter was our main family get together day. In Texas it’s usually nice on Easter – not cold but not too hot yet – so it’s the perfect day for a get together. We would go to my great aunt’s house and [...]

Do digital devices change the rules of etiquette? In some ways, I think so. I can sort of understand the example of the thank you email but I’m not sure I entirely agree. I can understand that if you get a lot of email one more “unnecessary” email could be considered a burden but, personally, [...]

This morning’s low temp was 17°F. 17! I mean… WTF! It’s the last week of March. Yeah, yeah… I know what I said but seriously? It wasn’t this cold all winter.

I love this. I heard the last half (approx.) on the radio Saturday. It’s one example of how the kind of person you are has more influence than anything you say. It’s almost 15 minutes long but well worth the time.

There’s an old saying: “Opinions are like armpits. Everybody has a couple and they all stink.” But we all know that not all opinions are equal. If someone said that Wagner’s music is the most beautiful ever written, I would disagree with that but I would not think that opinion stinks. On the other hand, [...]

Yesterday was the first day of winter… No! Wait! It was the first day of spring. Yes, that’s it. It’s spring. But the weather has certainly turned winter-like. I was thinking yesterday that it’s kind of funny that we say we have four seasons. Sometimes spring and fall don’t seem like proper seasons at all. [...]

I have mentioned before that, for me, St. Patrick’s Day heralds the beginning of spring but yesterday it felt more like the return of winter. The cats hate cold fronts. Cats like to be where it’s warm. They also like to be outdoors. When the outdoors is suddenly not warm, after it’s been warm for [...]

Here’s another book I want to get. Kelly posted a fairly lengthy quote from the book but I’ll just post this little bit: Sometimes I have to remind myself that the symbols of wholesome domestic happiness — hot biscuits, a platter of home-fried free-range chicken, a family sitting around a table — are not domestic [...]

Every year on this day, the Monday after the change to Daylight Saving Time, I am tempted to stay off the Internet to avoid the haters. I appear to be in the minority but I always look forward to Daylight Saving Time. I like it! Okay, so I’m weird. And I can understand that not [...]

It seems that we are evolved to live in the seasons. Or maybe we’re just conditioned to the changing seasons because we’ve lived in them all our lives. I wonder what it’s like for people who live where there are no seasons. Do they, twice a year, crave a change in the weather? I like [...]

I’m going to mention brand names but this is NOT an advertisement or review. Roman Meal was the only brand of bread my grandmother would buy. My mother bought white bread because that’s what my dad liked so when I was little I thought “dark bread” was weird and scary and I refused to try [...]

Quote from this really great Valentines Day post, found at Byzantium’s Shores: … I have a theory about rhyme, that we turned away from rhyme at the same time we turned away from dancing as a social and communal recreation, the same time we turned away from gathering around to sing together, the same time [...]

This looks like my front yard a couple of years ago. Doesn’t seem like much chance of that this year but you never know. Mother Nature has been known to play dirty tricks on Oklahoma, like sending a late April snow/ice storm. Someone around here must have fooled her big time. (Not sure if the [...]

I can sort of understand city dwellers not understanding how four way stops work. I mean, they’re still dumbasses, but at least we can understand why. It’s not a part of their everyday driving experience. But when someone in my neck o’ the woods doesn’t know what to do at a four way stop it [...]

Reason Number 1 why my attempts at dieting in 2013 will be pretty much the same as my attempts at dieting in 2012.

It’s Back to Normal Day. That’s not an official Day of course and that’s exactly the point – it’s nothing. It’s the first ordinary, routine day of the year and I am so ready for it. I do love the holidays. I enjoy the shopping and seeing people and the food, but a couple of [...]