Promoting family and friends

Visiting Gene’s blog today I really like the new look and his cartoons. It gave me the idea to promote my eldest son a bit. Mother’s pride.
My son is a cartoonist and an animator and he has a blog he adds work to on occasion so I thought since I don’t have much to [...]

More winter stories

This week, in our village, a yearling moose wandered into the village and a German Shepherd cross dog chased and attacked it, biting it around the face. The moose was bleeding about the face when our village dog catcher got there, she shot the dog on the spot. The village has no tolerance for [...]

Tabby cat terror for black bear

Look what Colorado Bob sent me. A great story. Loved it. Go check out his site. Lots of interesting stuff. He’s a Macophile too!

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Something’s out there

Annie our dog has been acting very strange today. Normally she has a very large fenced area to run in but since we have so much snow she just walks over the fence so we have had to tie her as we received one warning already from the Village Dog Catcher.
I took her for a [...]

Dripping everywhere

We have had a mild spell yesterday and today +7C which has caused everything to start melting. This is not particularly good because the roads are thawing and freezing overnight and the weight of snow on roofs is dangerous. Luckily the snow on our roof was practically gone because we had cleared it but we [...]

More Spam anyone?

I won about four milliion dollars today from the UK Sweepstakes International and maybe you will too tomorrow or the next day, but of course it is a scam. I have been fortunate up to now in not getting too much stuff but since I have been joining different sites where I have to leave [...]

Stillness

I came across this in a blog called Life2.0 the other day.
To experience reality, to know the truth of anything in fact, we must learn to set thought aside and become still.The natural world helps us to do this. It constantly calls us back to the simply awareness of ‘what is’ and ‘who we [...]

Mystery

I really don’t know what happened but I am up and running again. What we think happened is that we had a leak which did something to the wiring over the patio window and it zapped the wire to the outlet where I had plugged my surge protector. The part I don’t understand is that [...]

A death in the family (not really)

I checked my email this morning and then turned off the computer and that was it. Computer death. It has been coming but I was hoping the computer would last a while longer. However I have phoned around for quotes and I hope it won’t be too long before I have a shiny new [...]

Jonah and Rosa

When my father was working on the pipeline in northern Iraq near the Little Zab river we had a lady named Rosa who came to work for us to do the general housework. I remember my father telling me she was a Jonahite – one of the followers of Jonah.
Many people know the story of [...]