Planetary Verbosity

I thought last weekend was a “summer preview,” but this past weekend was even hotter and more summer-like. It was almost to the point of being unbearable, but wading in the creek on Sunday helped. Yeah, I actually went wading…in April. It was a little chilly at first, but not alarmingly so, and it quickly [...]

This past weekend was what I definitely would call a summer preview. Though Sunday was a bit overcast, it was still short-sleeve weather on both days. Saturday was absolutely gorgeous, with temps in the mid-70s and just enough of a light breeze to keep things from getting too stifling. Dave had to work on Saturday, [...]

I visited the homestead both days this past weekend and took lots of photos, but I wanted to post some earlier ones in this entry. These are from last Monday, April 13. I didn’t get a chance to post them before putting up the entry about my parents’ anniversary, and I’ve been too busy and/or [...]

This must be the month for milestones. Snoopy’s 10th birthday was on the 8th, of course. Today is my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary! They don’t like big get-togethers or going out to dinner or anything like that, so we just gave them a card for now. I’d like to do something more, such as a [...]

As I hinted in yesterday’s entry, we had a landmark birthday in our family today. Snoopy, our amazing Bichon Frise, turned 10 years old! I can’t believe it’s been that long already. We obviously didn’t have him quite that long, but we got him in early June of 1999, about two months after he was [...]

Ok, the title is a bit of a play on words because we saw the year’s first Dutchman’s breeches this week – photo later. As far as spring, though, I’m beginning to have my doubts. After a wonderful Sunday and rainy but seasonable Monday, it was snowing today! It was only flurries, but still…cold and [...]