“Pick out which ever one you want.” I can still hear my father’s voice. “I want the best one, a really big one!” I’d always say, then we’d sort through the pile of pumpkins at the local supermarket, picking up one, then the next, singling out a few likely candidates, comparing and rejecting until we […]
I took the first step to setting up a “social media platform”. Or maybe the third, or the fourth or even the fifth ‘first step’. The FIRST first step was deciding to set up a simple Blog, then I realized I could have an online store, so I decided to set up a website to
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Since my mother’s passing in March of 2022, I’ve been thinking a lot about turning points, new ideas, new paths, new directions, and moving forward with my life. After the last ten years as a caregiver, I have the opportunity to make a course correction, and I’m taking advantage of it. Throughout my prior twenty
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Ten years ago this week my sister called to let me know it was time to return to Texas to help care for my father as he faced an inevitable end from a 2009 back-to-back diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer. Both conditions typically progress slowly and unpredictably, so we made a long term decision
Above: An extremely big picture of the Galactic Center, an Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. Yesterday I enrolled in Revit
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September, and the heat continues, but the end is in sight. Oddly enough this averages out to be the second wettest month of the year, probably because it is the month that we are statistically more likely to have a Tropical Storm or Hurricane. The rain and warm weather are a perfect start for the
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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” – from lyrics by John Lennon. As 2020 drew to a close I intentionally took a temporary break from this blog to re-evaluate and “make other plans” in response to the new normal that Covid-19 has brought to our world. Voluntary and mandatory
My Winter garden had a bit of a setback, so there isn’t anything growing. I’m currently working on getting the soil built up and taking care of a Gopher/Vole issue. The following is a to do list of what I would be doing had everything gone as planned. December is a busy holiday season, and
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Above: A Vole or Gopher tunnel located under the landscaping bricks in Overleaf garden. This is how they traveled unnoticed between raised beds. Back in October I prepped my raised garden beds for a winter garden intending to plant a second crop from some seeds left over from Spring. The crops I wanted included Carrots,
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Pictured above: The Phoenix, High relief stone carving, Cathedral of St Stephen, Metz, France. Image by Michel Boucly from Pixabay Ancient stories and traditions tell the story of the Phoenix, a great and solitary bird that lives for 500 years, or 1,000 years, or 12,999 years… nobody knows for sure. Intelligent and wise, the bird
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