My front doorway, after I tossed out the dead plants from summer and replaced them with fresh baskets of colorful mums Happy first day of October! I’m so looking forward to autumn. I admit, however, I’m dreading the days getting shorter and the long, cold, dark nights ahead. I’ll just have to light more fires, …
The flowerbed I’m going to have to weed tonight, like it or not! Have I ever mentioned that I really, really, really don’t enjoy gardening? Yet I love having pretty flowers in my yard. I have got to force myself to weed out these horrible nettles or thistles, whatever they are, out of the bed …
Cyalume Snaplight Stick, on Amazon A sudden summer lightning and thunderstorm came through my town one evening this week. Lightning struck a power transformer down the road, so my neighborhood lost power around 9pm. I wish I’d had enough notice to unplug my two computers (one of them is on a surge protector, the other, …