Upgrades and Apps. of Love
I originally heard this on NPR’s ‘Car Talk’ years ago and found a print-out while cleaning out old papers and figured I share Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0...
View ArticleCurious Friday: If it’s Just?
The sign begs the question If it is “Just …, what More could there be”?
View ArticleSpring Sprung
We know it is spring in New Hampshire, when the Pink flamingos show up on the lawns in Portsmouth
View ArticleCurious Friday: Ladder to the Peak
Can’t help but to be curious, is the ladder a statement? An ornament? A work in progress? Or is it now that they’re back on the ground it is something they’ll have to get later?
View ArticleCurious Friday: Of Two Minds And A Eastern Grey Squirrel
The joy of fall colors and leaves that softly float to the ground A compulsion to clean up the mess Songs sung of a White Christmas on December 24 A different tune is sung by January 15 “Enough of the...
View ArticleDirty Hands and The Clean Pretty Towels
As I toil in the soil My client makes a gracious offer With a place to refresh I try to decline But my client won’t take no for an answer Looking down at myself I have to wonder Does my client see...
View ArticleA Gentle Reminder From the Sky
Yesterday as thunderstorms were rolling in, I went out to the truck to get some tools out of the back. When behind me I heard a gentle thud, turned around and saw these balloons had drop from the sky....
View ArticleCurious Friday: Hopeless Self
We stopped off for dinner on our way home after work the other night. We shared a sandwich and some Sun Chips when I came upon this “Smiley” one below. I saved it and brought it home to take a...
View ArticleMeeting the Fosters’
My tale begins with a city guy (me from NYC) who moves his family to the woods (NH), without a clue. It has been 37 years now and in some ways still clueless. I had finish a jobs’ program as a boat...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Re-Signed to Using a Slightly Used, But Helpful Sign
Many signs are just trying to sell you something, that you really don’t need or want. But once in the while there is that helpful sign, as you travel down life’s road Who knew that in less than a year...
View ArticleA Standard Time
It’s been pumpkins Goblins, princesses, Zombies and more No control with left-over candy Snow in the forecast And now time changes A mind in overload An internal clock In conflict with the outside...
View ArticleCurious Friday: Revealing the My True Self to Me
It has been said “in life as social creatures What we reveal to others of ourselves Is the view of what we ourselves’ Wish Ourselves to be” Noble, honest, caring and intelligent Not to be better than...
View ArticleMy Favorite Holiday Card – From a Dear Friend
Nothing like a nice poisonous- plant card for the Holiday season! Bittersweet night shade – Solanum dulcamara While this plant isn’t as deadly as its name suggests, the berries can make you sick if...
View ArticleCold Feet
The sun is surely in the winter doldrums Its’ shows up late every morning And leaving early at the end of the day With no enthusiasm to share any of its’ warmth What about the rest of us Caught up in...
View ArticleLandscape Thursday: Don’t Let Your Children Fall Into Flower Pots
There are warnings everywhere, even on the bottom of flower pots. Best to heed those warnings and fill all those pots with plants as soon as you can and keep the little ones safe Yet maybe there...
View ArticleThere Are Days When ……
There are days – when I just don’t want to get out from under the blankie
View ArticleIn a Fog
I’m in a Fog today Can’t seem to find my mind Looked on the ground it wasn’t there Thou I realized I was wearing one left shoe, one right boot I have been to the PO and to the mall Oh, I think I...
View ArticleHappiness and Good Luck?
They say the Blue bird brings happiness and that my be so. Usually I’m glad to see one Yet when it flies around your parked car day after day Acting like it wants to keep getting into the closed...
View ArticleI Duck Taped My Wife
Years of living with someone It’s a Yin and Yang thing Compromise with a kiss on the cheek Anger, yet cuddling in bed Hand holding or rolling of one’s eyes Yet there are times Like when the wife...
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