Finally, some good news to report about the infamous detour on the main roadway through our area:  at noon tomorrow, it’s set to re-open after about a month.
I understand the need to clear away the debris, really I do.  Back in March, a big chunk of rock actually fell on a car, sending five people […]

I don’t watch “The View,” but given what happened today between Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, I might just have to start.
Again, I missed the actual exchange, so in fairness to both women, I have no real context here. That said, though, and judging from the clips I’ve seen on several network news shows, […]

Camp was great!
We got there mid-morning on Saturday and found ankle-deep leaves and knee-deep weeds growing all over the lot. YUK! Before we closed the camp last fall, we gathered up 30+ bags. So we grabbed the leaf blower and the rake, and tore into it.
Nine giant bags later, we could see […]

One of the really neat things about camp is that it’s so very peaceful — sort of.
Actually, it’s a lot like having one of those sound machines, only you can’t always choose the sound you want. We wake up every morning to Canada geese and other waterfowl squawking away, and throughout the day, we […]

Well, we’re just about ready to go to camp for a few days.  It’ll be a much-needed break, and I’m really looking forward to it.
Since this is the first trip of the season, though, there’s quite a bit of extra stuff to do:  gather up the linens and toiletry items we plan to leave up […]

Did you happen to catch the season finale of “CSI:” tonight?
I can’t stand it.  Catherine was right — it was like a David Lynch movie.  Maybe I’m way too Old School, but I really think what used to be one of  the best shows ever on television has just gotten, well, too full of itself […]

Have you heard about Joshua Maudlin yet?  He’s the 19-year-old father charged with injury to a child for — get this — nuking his two-month old daughter!
The story comes out of Texas, where police said the baby was burned when Daddy put her in a microwave.   She has internal injuries and third-degree burns and is […]

Colleen over at Geeky Speaky is always coming up with the neatest things!  This time, she tracked down a blog directory that’s unlike any other I’ve ever seen.
Grokodile is a regional blog directory, hooking up bloggers with each other by geography.  It’s really cool to see who’s literally in the neighborhood! It’s also a really […]

I’m tired.
We have a camp about a hundred miles from here. It’s a 20-foot tagalong camper that we’ve converted into a sort of hillbilly double-wide; we ordered trusses, boxed the whole thing in, and turned it into a cabin. Once we used our Ingersoll Rand air tools to cut the tongue off the […]

An effort is underway today to make people aware of one of the best networking tools a blogger can find, and I’m delighted to be a part of it.
Blog Catalog connects bloggers to the people most interested in reading their posts:  Other bloggers!  It’s a great community, and the powers that be over there are […]