Category Archives: Life

A new jug

Posted on March 24, 2025 by ksedinger

We recently made a trek to our favorite antique mall, and as has happened quite a few times when I’ve left that place, it was with a new addition to my collection of Toby jugs. Guess who the new fellow … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday My Love!

Posted on February 25, 2025 by ksedinger
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The Saxhole of Chestnut Ridge (a repost)

Posted on January 27, 2025 by ksedinger

This is a repost of a piece I wrote in 2015. I dig it up now because there’s been some discussion in social media lately of what appropriate punishment should be meted out against people who play their music, headphoneless, … Continue reading →

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Scenes from a Winter’s Week

Posted on January 25, 2025 by ksedinger

It was a very cold and somewhat snowy week here. Nothing we couldn’t handle on either front–the lake effect produced probably 18 inches or so, maybe a little more, over several days–but nevertheless, I’m seeing reports that the first week … Continue reading →

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An observation, for no particular reason

Posted on January 4, 2025 by ksedinger

It shouldn’t be as easy as it is to really damage the bejeezus out of one’s side-view mirror. Moving on….

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2024: The area between the dumpster fire and the tire fire

Posted on December 31, 2024 by ksedinger

It’s the end of 2024 (or even the beginning of 2025, depending on when I get this finished; I’m starting to write it on the 29th, but this thing often takes me a few days to cobble together. To sum … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the Snowy 716

Posted on December 8, 2024 by ksedinger

It took a while: we recorded one of our latest initial snowfalls, if not the latest initial snowfall, ever. It didn’t actually snow until November 30, and then last weekend we had our first trademark lake-effect storm of the year. This one … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving 2024

Posted on November 28, 2024 by ksedinger

I used to write and post a long list of things I was thankful for each year, but I haven’t done that for a few years as it got to be an exercise in copying-and-pasting. I’m still thankful for an … Continue reading →

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Morning skies

Posted on November 4, 2024 by ksedinger

Sorry about the radio silence of late, folks, but I’ll be honest: Current Events are consuming more of my brain cycles than I want to admit, and while I could fill this space with my thoughts as to how the Election … Continue reading →

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Wifi? Iffy!

Posted on October 30, 2024 by ksedinger

Our spiffy high-speed wifi router that we got a few months ago died. Now we’re back on our older, less fast high-speed router. Sigh! This is like going back to a horse-drawn carriage for the several-hour trek to Mankato!!! That … Continue reading →

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