The mountain of construction materials in the front yard is now mostly up on the roof. Quite a lot got done today. The main roof is finished...

We picked up a new dog at our vet on the way to the kennel today. Peanut is a six month old male owner surrender. He was a little thin, but ...

I got the car back. It runs fine, but it seemed to run fine before I took it in for the scheduled service. I assume that the mechanics did e...

I'm never going to become a space journalist if I don't take advantage of every opportunity. With this in mind, I decided to apply f...

June 1st will always be the day that Dot died. It was two years ago today. What a long journey. It was initially difficult for Dash to adjus...

I was wrong about the weather yesterday. We were in the path of a big storm after all. It just arrived a little later than I expected. I can...

It doesn't look like I'll have to take the refrigerator apart this weekend after all. The temperature is holding steady. I have no...

It's weird to see rain again. It's been dry for almost two months here in Dallas and I'd almost forgotten all the little rituals...

It was definitely Monday this morning. Monday is always the day when things get off to a slow and often rocky start. When I woke up this m...

The bad weather continues. Last night our power went out twice and strong straight line winds blew part of the roof off the greenhouse. Th...

Benicar, the medication I use to control my blood pressure, has joined the growing list of drugs targeted in class action suits. Every tim...

This may be shorter than usual. Our power just went out. There's a big storm headed our way, but it hasn't even arrived yet, so a ...

It was another wet, cold day. As soon as the dogs finished their breakfast, they hopped right back in bed again. They didn't want anyt...

My website prototype was a success. There will be some tweaking in the weeks ahead, but I won't have to start over. In the realm of we...

It was 80 degrees today. It is supposed to be 20 degrees tomorrow. That's Texas weather in a nutshell. All the TV weathermen in town a...

Around 8 PM last night I thought I saw a flash of lightning on the Southeast horizon. I'm always a bit worried about lightning at dog ...

The dogs and I pass by Erykah Badu's house almost every morning on our walks. For some reason when she initially built the house, Eryk...