Tuesday Morning Hummercam Update
I swear to God, my wife, and mother hummingbird I won’t do this often, but I couldn’t resist. Note to PETA: she’s back on her nest now, and everything’s cool.
Monday DogBlogging & Hummercam Update
Thursday Morning DogBlogging
Our back yard is enclosed with a high cinderblock fence, and until two nights ago it was Schatzi’s hood. If she heard a dog bark or smelled javelina nearby, she’d shoot out the doggy door into the back yard, loudly letting the world know she was on the job, defending our home. Until two nights […]
Hummercam
I was cooking on the back porch most of the day, and just as we were getting ready to serve dinner I noticed something up under the eaves: That’s a bicycle hook I put up years ago, when we had parrots . . . I used to hang an outdoor perch from it. Now another […]
Special Recess
One morning when I was a first- or second-grader in Mascouta, Illinois, our teacher announced a special recess. We spilled out onto the school grounds, along with kids and teachers from all the other classes, just as a little car towing a little trailer drove in through the gate and stopped in the middle of […]
Back Aboard the Chester Maru (Updated)
It’s Memorial Day. My father died on this day, two years ago. Some time after his death I posted a letter of his to this blog. The letter was about his WWII service as a US Navy Armed Guard gunner aboard the MS Chester Sun, a civilian tanker. Just today, I received an email from […]
Boys’ Weekend 2009 (Updated)
Some after-action reportage from our Las Vegas visit, this time with photos: My son Gregory arranged for us to ride a couple of BMW motorcycles Saturday morning. We checked out a dual-sport R1200GS and an R1200RT touring bike. Both were 2008 models with low mileage. We rode north from Las Vegas to Mount Charleston, skirting […]
Family Photoblogging
Some family photos from our recent trip to see the kids in Las Vegas: How long will it be before Donna and I move back to Sin City? Our kids are studiously avoiding the question!