I was getting Peanut’s breakfast, feeling confident about the morning.  In a rare fit of timeliness, I was ready for work a good ten minutes before I had to leave the house, and I was happily contemplating making a cup of coffee when my toe snagged on the stair tread between the pantry and the…

It’s cold again in Virginia.  It warmed up to the seventies for a day or two to tease us into Spring bliss, and then it went down to the thirties again (not as a high though–thank goodness!).  I should be coping with that by wearing things like this: Instead, I’m wearing short sleeves like an…

Words and I are having a hard time right now.  I might have used up my quota of them, so I’m sticking with pictures this week.  Hope you don’t mind. Today’s picture is of street dogs.  I always start off feeling sad for street dogs when I see them, but then I’m proud of them…

My brain is moving in circles around images like this:     It’s not good, especially since my brain should be moving in circles around thoughts about networking cables and databases and fixing problems that appeared after software upgrades.  Ugh.

For once, the term awake isn’t referring to something I wish I would be in the morning.  Nope, this time it’s about my garden (and gardens in most places around this time of year). If you wanted to be polite, you could describe my 2010 effort at gardening as “novice.”   I pulled off some ridiculously…

Last week (which was so sad and empty on my blog) was full and happy in real life.  After a few days of work, I took off on an adventure in Colorado as planned with Scott, a few of our mutual friends from this area, and some of his friends from college.   I don’t…