"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
For weeks now I’ve been getting messages from WordPress, asking me to upgrade to the latest version of their weblogging program. I finally succumbed, and now I have hundreds of posts and pages with uncommanded typographical symbols mixed in with the text, like this: So I have a question: don’t NBC and Today have some degree […]
Every Fourth of July the residents of Sunnywood Estates gather for a parade. We supplied a large contingent of marchers: Donna and I, our son Gregory with his wife Beth and children Taylor and Quentin, and our friends Angie, Darrell, Chris, and Mary Anne. Not all the Woodfords were here. Polly was able to come […]
I’ve been trying to photograph a pair of Gila Woodpeckers and a Thrasher, but they’re skittish. Whenever I reach for the camera, they see the motion — I’m on the other side of a window and only a few feet away — and fly away. Turns out the female Gila Woodpecker is a little less […]
Spent the morning over at my friend Ed’s garage, helping another friend, Angie, put new cables and a brake line on her Sportster. Ed has an awesome motorcycle garage and probably every motorcycle tool known to man, including a really slick table lift – what a pleasure it is to work on a bike when […]
Here’s an interesting article about supermarkets adopting “single line” policies. The idea is that customers, rather than lining up at individual cash registers, get in one long line instead; when customers reach the head of the line they go straight to whichever cash register is empty. Been there, done that. In the early 1980s the wife of General […]
My God, we started our Saturday morning bike ride at 6:30 and were toast by 8:00, with a few miles still to go. But we gutted it out to the end, then sat outdoors . . . albeit under patio umbrellas . . . at our local coffee shop. My one concession to the heat was drinking […]
Our Saturday morning bicycle ride gets earlier and earlier. In the winter we started at 9:00 AM. Today we started at 7:00 AM, but it was already 95 degrees by the time we finished, so next week we’re starting at 6:30 AM. I suppose by the time daily highs reach 110-115 degrees, we’ll be meeting […]
I saw a bird that shouldn’t be here. This was about a month ago, while Donna and I were hiking in a Tucson park. Back behind the soccer fields, where it was mostly dirt and cactus, there was this beach bird, something like a plover. “That bird is sure lost,” I thought. As Donna and I got […]