"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Our other children
We have a new sand filter for the pool. Big expense, but not as big an expense as repairing the broken manifold and replacing filters in our old cartridge-style unit (mainly because those parts are no longer manufactured and are hard to find). Our pool guy did a great job with the installation and everything’s […]
Boy if there’s one thing I wish we could do over, it’s having a pool.
We’ll see you on the other side, Mister B, friend and companion.
Standing by for more love taps.
I admit it. I’m a conspiracy theorist. Can you blame me?
Bossy bird, that cardinal!
Remember the metal tubes you crimped from the bottom as you squeezed out the toothpaste?
Recent posts here have been almost entirely domestic. What can a Tucson-based blogger say about events that’ll make the slightest difference? Still, one tries to keep a hand in. On the Air India crash: the engines on those Boeing 787s produce more than enough thrust to make up for forgetting to set flaps and slats […]