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,…