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This week, as we do sometimes, we’ll offer up a helping of a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...
Ugh...
...had to go outside first thing Monday morning to take care of frost on the windshield. Yup. Frost. On October 5. Seems just a little bit early. Wonder if that means it will snow on...
You folks probably knew that International Observe the Moon Night was last Saturday. No? I didn’t either.
While scrolling through exciting stuff on my tablet early last Saturday evening, I came across a story about...you guessed it...International Observe the Moon Night.
Further research on the...
Once again, this week’s word adventure began when your writer went on a walk...or two...
Let’s start with our word for the week, which, as the caption under one of the photographs declares, is “xeric. Xeric, it seems, is a word which means the opposite of wet.
I’ll be honest with you. Until last...
Last week, I mentioned in this space that I had run out of words, so there were several big pictures of critters instead. I also mentioned that you didn’t have to worry, because I had ordered some words on Amazon. That was kind of a joke.
Should have known better. Little did I know, but you can...
At the time I started writing this Sunday night, the weather forecast was suggesting that we might get to experience the tail end of a hurricane this week...
...well, now, I suppose that figures. After all, we haven’t had a hurricane yet. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens...
...not...
This week, we’ll start with something funny (well, we hope it’s funny)...something disappointing...something a little bit spacy...and then, well, who really knows?
The Other Half uncovered this little gem in social media land and shared it with yours truly...it’s called...
“If 2020 were a math...
This week, we’re going to shoot the moon, so to speak. We’re kinda havin’ to do that because Plan A didn’t work out, as sometimes happens.
Here’s a bit of a follow-up to a previous item...
...yours truly spent some more outside in the dark of night in what proved to be several fruitless attempts to...
It was a dark and stormy night...
Before we get to the good stuff, just wanted to ask: has anybody managed to spot the comet which is supposed to have been visible in the early morning...and early in the night...sky?
From what I understand, the comet is called something like C/2020 F3 NEOWISE*....
This week is going to be about trying to tie up some loose ends...well, as best as one can do in the midst of a pandemic. Seems like you just about have a loose end tied up, and the other end starts to unravel...
Don’t know about you, but before the pandemic started, yours truly sometimes wondered...
Went home early last Thursday after another grueling morning of toil at The Paragraph Factory which involved various combinations of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
Walked in the door and proudly proclaimed to The Other Half: “I’m normal.” The initial response may have been a barely perceptible...
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