I've decided to make Rocks again this year. A few months back I found a frozen stash I had made years ago and enjoyed them more than I ...

Tuesday, December 2nd was our first significant snowfall this season. Temperatures have rarely risen above freezing since then. Just after m...

I won't call it a *major* snowfall. Only about three inches or so - but three inches of wet, heavy snow. I don't think I had to shov...

Some twenty years ago my office mate told me he had just picked up his free turkey with the coupon our employer had given us. Because he was...

"Too bad we don't have the key to these," you said, twirling the handcuffs on your finger. I was tired. We were tired. We were...

As we left work this morning after a particularly brutish night of calls, we were greeted by flurries. Not much, and it didn't last long...

FOREWORD: Haven't posted all summer. Summers have gotten to be particularly tough for me the last few - many - years. Generally I'm ...

Diamond's Candy Shoppe, October 30 2004. Closed since 2011. I can still smell the candy in Caszh's store sugar and flavorings permea...

I bought my first car, a two-door 1990 Toyota Tercel, in 1992. It lasted four years until an unfortunate incident involving an oil change th...

I have been trying to observe and photograph flowers in my yard throughout the month of May. Unfortunately, some bloomed and faded before I ...

  Grape Hyacinths are among the first Spring flowers to make an appearance, blooming after the crocuses, daffodils, forsythia, and cherries....

  Last week was warm, but that didn't last. This past weekend was particularly rainy, and then temperatures dropped back into the 30s an...

  Forsythia are one of the first things to bloom in my yard each year. (Daffodils were already in bloom a week or so ago, but I didn't g...

I am realizing that the crocuses at our family gravesite are a good indicator of the arrival of Spring and the changing Springtime climate. ...

Two years ago tomorrow, six days after she died, we buried my mom. But today, another bit of her has passed away. For two years I have resis...

My mom died two years ago tonight. I still miss her every day.

I got to thinking about an event from September 24, 2022. I realized I never recorded it here. I was able to track it down on Facebook, but ...

Yet another one. This time, with eggs. Groceries purchased at Weis, 1 Weis Plaza, Nanticoke PA, 2/21/2025 Weis Quality All-Purpose Flour, 5 ...

Ever since my mom's car was t-boned at an intersection as she was driving to church back in 2000, she had suffered from chronic pain. Sh...

(Yes, I realize I just did one of these for a shopping trip two weeks later. But this one has some items that I want to start tracking - pro...