Your Big Toe and Mysteries

Your Big Toe and Mysteries

Does your big toe ache when a storm is approaching? Does your cat lick its paws excessively? Does your dog pace the floor and stick close by your side? Do you feel the urge to lose yourself in a cozy mystery?   For some strange and unknown reason, mysteries and weather somehow go together. For example, […]

Just Wait

There’s an old saying, If you don’t like the weather, just wait a bit and it’ll change. It has certainly done that! From being terribly dry to an inch of rain and from being hot to 43 degrees. One day, the air conditioner, the next, the furnace. I told my Minnesota family, who are visiting […]

Is It Really October?

Is It Really October?

You October people chose a wonderful month to be born. It’s a golden month, with the fragrance of apples and chrysanthemums, the time of harvest, a tucking in of plants,  and insects readying for a winter’s sleep. Your birthstone is the fabled opal. Read about it. It has a fascinating history. And, of course, your […]

Ben and the Thunderstorm

Ben and the Thunderstorm

Ben Franklin would have had a good chance to test his theory of electricity this morning. It was on June 10, 1752, when he experimented with electricity and lightning by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. His aim was to collect an ambient charge of electricity in a leyden jar. Mr. Franklin was curious about […]

Cool Morning

Cool Morning

Nemo and I went on the deck–I with my coffee. For some reason, Nemo doesn’t care for coffee! But, chicken? Well, that’s another matter. It was peaceful on the deck–quiet and with birds just waking up. Tree frogs are back too. They come early, in fact, and I really like to hear them. As long […]

Stormy and Barmy

The weather can be stormy and barmy and last night, it was pretty alarmy. I don’t think alarmy is a word, but last night, it was alarming, for sure. Nemo and I enjoyed sitting on the deck, reading, yesterday afternoon. (I was reading, Nemo was investigating the yard.) Then, inside for supper. Not a cloud in […]