Planetary Verbosity

First off, thanks to all of those who posted a “happy anniversary” to us! As I mentioned before, there was lots of trimming/cutting going on around the homestead on Saturday. I was giving Snoopy a much-needed haircut, while Dave was trying to put a dent in the out-of-control forsythia. Since it was supposed to be [...]

Today was our 8th wedding anniversary. After doing our usual Sunday shopping, we decided to use a TGI Friday’s gift card I’d gotten from my last job to treat ourselves to an anniversary dinner. We’d never been there before and were hoping it would be a nice change. After a ten minute wait, we were [...]

This past weekend on the homestead was spent doing some more fixing-up in the bathroom. If you’re wondering why we keep making little changes instead of getting rid of that crappy wallpaper and linoleum, it’s because the bathroom is probably the last room we’ll remodel. We figure that if it’s going to be around for [...]

I never thought I’d be posting a video from Faux News on my blog, but seriously…I think this says it all, my friends! Here’s 91-year-old Ernest Borgnine’s secret to aging gracefully. (I was going to link to his IMDb profile, but I’m pretty sure my few readers know the man’s work!) Bonus points to Doocy [...]

Ok, I got the East Broad Top RR videos uploaded to YouTube… The first one was taken shortly after we arrived. At that time, they were just getting ready for the very first passenger excursion of the day, so I was able to get this video of just the locomotive and tender pulling through and [...]

I haven’t posted many homestead wildlife photos lately, so here are a few from this past weekend. After the brief rain shower on Friday afternoon, this cardinal came out to sing. I followed him around the yard and got several photos – and even a couple of videos of him singing. What a gorgeous bird! [...]