We spent the afternoon with the rescue Dalmatians again. All the dogs love to have visitors. There were fewer dogs this week because Xander,...

By my low standards it was a very busy day. I made my travel arrangements for the Florida trip. In the end, flying turned out to be the bett...

Good grief. Our power went out again last night. As I was calling in the outage report, I had visions of ice cream melting in the freezer a...

I've been going back and forth all day about whether to fly or drive to Florida. Surprisingly, the cost is about the same either way. My...

Travel is stressful. NASA finally confirmed a launch date for the Falcon Heavy, so I started looking for a hotel. Literally as I was looking...

Janet and I temperament tested a dog this afternoon. I think I've already told you about Xander. He's got a good home if he gets alo...

Life is good. We finally got power restored early this afternoon. Most of the traffic lights are functioning again and people have stopped d...

This is our third day without power. There is still no estimate for power restoration in our neighborhood, but we're starting to see pow...

We still don't have power. Basically, we're camping now. The power company now says that we might not get electricity restored unti...

We had a terrible storm today. Our power is out. Our large elm tree got blown over and is sitting in our yard. The roof got blown off the gr...

Things are looking up. Yesterday I found out that three more of my model trains had sold. Today I found out that I'd sold two of my guit...

I decided to get my car serviced today. This was a minor service, so I just stayed at the dealership while the work was being done. As I wan...

I saw a woman pulling up Queen Anne's Lace in one of the meadows this morning. I'd seen small groups of people doing this before, so...

I didn't plan well today. I knew that there was rain in the forecast, but thought I'd go from gazebo to gazebo on my morning walk li...

I noticed that the sole was coming off one of my most comfortable boots this morning. This eventually happens to all boots where the sole is...

Janet and I picked up Xander at the vet today and took him back to the rescue kennel. He wasn't very enthusiastic about wearing a cone, ...

Weird. I didn't realize it at the time, but at exactly the same time I was walking around one end of the lake yesterday evening, police ...