This, through late August, is High Summer here, when the green matter threatens to overpower you if you get too close and seems to expand its sphere of influence by roughly 50 cubic feet a day. My fuchsia basket, an annual indulgence because the hummingbirds love it so, is in full, glorious bloom. This year’s […]
I slept really badly last night so woke up grumpy and dragged out, rather like a possum that hasn’t quite yet realized he’s roadkill. My day was pretty well shot by the time I got going, so rather than working out I decided I’d take the dog to the fenced-in park and then give her […]
Several friends and I are forming a kazoo marching band. We are AWESOME.
Not all of us have musical backgrounds and few have any experience in marching bands, but those who don’t are catching on quickly. We’ve practiced twice, the second time at the park, where we marched up and down. We frightened away a young […]
You boys used to call them s’rawbees when you were little. They are the quintessence of summer, holding all that juicy sweetness in a fragile package. If they are truly ripe, and not picked when barely pink and shipped from somewhere 5,000 miles away, their delicate skin ruptures at the slightest touch and they weep […]