Tag Archives: Daily Life Stuff

On Festivals and the Dating Thereof

NOTE: I’ve had this in drafts for-EVER (I started this post in August 2022!), and I think it’s now time to go ahead and finish it, because it’s that time of year again. Not the time of year indicated in … Continue reading

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It Begins: Emotional Winter is here!

The first snows of the 2023-2024 winter season have fallen. Yes, I know it’s not winter yet, technically…in the astronomical sense of the Winter Solstice having come and gone. Nor is yet Meteorological Winter yet; that begins on December 1. … Continue reading

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OUT: Hobbes, greyhound, ankle

Poor guy. Because Hobbes is hurt, he wasn’t allowed on the Buffalo Bills’ team plane to London, even though he is the Official Greyhound of the Buffalo Bills. (Yes he is! Look at his cast! He has to be! I’m sure … Continue reading

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A metamorphosis, in progress

When we moved to WNY way back in 1981, my grandmother visited and noticed that our new backyard had a lot of milkweed in it. She told me that milkweed is a preferred plant for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and we … Continue reading

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Pictures from a Weekend

Presented without comment. More on my Flickr page!  

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One of my cats is FOUL.

FOUL: Feline Of Unusual Length, obviously.  

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“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” –Letterkenny

The other day I was having a conversation with a manager at work: SHE: I have a passion for [activity that can actually be really lucrative], and I’m really good at it! ME: Really? SHE: Yes! [She shows me photos … Continue reading

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Jiggety-jig

This newfound habit of mine, in which I post here on Monday through Thursday and then don’t post at all Friday through Sunday, is not an intentional habit at all; it’s just one of those seeming habits that gets dictated … Continue reading

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You’re still here?

Another few days of no posting! What gives? Well…there’s a lot going on right now. A lot going on right now. Some of it I’ll almost certainly write about soon, when I have leave to do so; some of it I … Continue reading

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Unplanned Hiati!

Is hiati the plural of hiatus? Let me go check…. Answer: It is not. It’s hiatuses. OK then! Anyway, I had no planned intention to take an entire weekend off from posting here, but that’s what happened. Nothing major happened, just a busy … Continue reading

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