Most of the day since morning was spent preparing for our sale this weekend. I'll admit we got a little distracted, looking at Poppets ...

Spring will never be my favorite season. It's way too far the opposite of my favorite, which is autumn. Nevertheless, spring holds so...

Yesterday was extraordinarily warm, even for Palm Springs. Great timing, because we celebrated Orion's 7 th with lots of water. Cold...

As you know, I've been reading about rats. Lots about rats. More than I ever thought I might. This is what happens when one starts to r...

I caught Nosferatu on A & E, just lucky timing, as it began. There are some truly beautiful scenes, like vintage postcards, in that fi...

So now it's Saturday night and I begin to believe I'm becoming the hermit I always thought I would be. It's late and I'm di...

I'm taking this week to catch up on things I owe people. We missed some orders, yikes, for various reasons that can all be reduced to o...

I emailed Officer Tedd Nickerson via Pet Harbor, who replied that our little friend is doing better today. I haven't decided exactly wh...

Heard about Neil's Dad on Saturday. Phoned him yesterday to say, well, you know. Having lost my parents, the thing that seems most hel...

We have a rat. Well, we think it's a rat. It might be rats. Not sure yet. So far, we have only clues and evidence. Droppings and...

Poppets first---then words. Hmm. I'm told, and it sounds entirely plausible, that some people who follow this blog via RSS feeds and Li...

Here is Persistence Engine (scroll to yesterday's post) in motion. You can see the key turning and hear the great noise on the hardwo...

We met the Most Inventive Doctor Black Who claimed it was electricity he lacked. What power the Company did supply He discovered was an ev...

It's been very windy these last days, with clouds moving quickly across the sky in purposeful looking groups. I however, have been ve...

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