I have been spending a lot of time outside enjoying the unusual cool spring weather we have been having this May. It has really felt good, more often than not, to just be outside. Add in the unusual number of bird species that have “fallen out” here on the Texas …
As I sat down in the rocker on the back porch with my first cup of coffee the morning sun was hitting the bit of woods to the west of me. I noticed a lot of bird activity in the trees that line the field (yard?) behind my neighbors house. …
Taking my first cup of coffee out on the back porch this morning I was greeted by one of those rare spring days… Deep blue sky above a world gone green. The front that brought some much needed rain this week also brought a cooler morning than anything we felt …
The farmer who became an overnight millionaire with $8 corn will go broke with $5 corn. I’m thinking they might go broke on $10 corn even faster because it will just encourage bad farming. There is no way we can keep up this money folly. via Big Farms Going Belly …
The only thing I keep iTunes on my computer for is to download my daily podcasts. I don’t particularly care for iTunes always wanting to change the way my music is stored. I learned long ago not to let the program “manage” my library. But why oh why does every update overwrite …
Everyone lives with self mythology.
The more important a memory is to the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, the more often we rehearse the memory. And the more often we relive those memories, the less likely it is that they are true.
When we go out, we carry some warmth into the night, and when we come in, we carry some cold into the house, a vanishingly small exchange of energy in a universe of such extremes. Verlyn Klinkenborg via Zero in the Dark – NYTimes.com.
The recent discovery of several instances of “the whole six yards” in newspapers from the 1910s — four decades before the earliest known references to “the whole nine yards” — opens a new window onto “the most prominent etymological riddle of our time,” said Fred Shapiro, a librarian at Yale …
Reading my email today, I received a notice from YouTube about this video posted by UNC-TV. Since it covers two of my passions, North Carolina and coffee, I thought I would post it here. I know from past videos that this kind of “barista art”is becoming quite common. But, as I don’t frequent …
I was reading through my emails and Google Reader feeds today when I came across Jim Casada’s December Newsletter. As I was reading his list of childhood Christmas Memories I found myself nodding on more than one occasion as my own memories mached up with Jim’s. Here are a few …
Every news story about the coming “fiscal cliff” talks about what the “real” problem is. The consensus being, that American companies aren’t making decisions on employment or investment because they don’t know what is going to happen… They are putting off decisions until they see what Congress will do. The truth isn’t quite that straight forward…I caught …
It’s starting to feel like my time of the year. The trees are still mostly dressed in their summer finest, though with the wind gusts today, they won’t be for long. So far this fall, we have only seen color on the Chinese tallow trees. I am holding out hope for the …
Every day I look around in disbelief, remembering how surprised I was when spring began. I’m still busy being surprised by spring. I’ll be ready for fall by February, always behind the season and pretty certain I’ll never catch up. via Falling Behind the Season – Verlyn Klinkenborg. I always …
Hummingbird Update It seems the cold front that blew through this past weekend was the signal most of the hummingbirds in the backyard were waiting for to head on south. Since Sunday I have only seen the few birds that were here all summer. I won’t complain, but it was …
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