Month: July 2021

  • Rainy Summer

    It’s going to rain here today…again. We’ve had a wet summer, not that it’s helped the dwindling water supplies in the area. Most towns around here still have a mandatory water ban, as the rains have still not raised the water tables enough. We don’t live in the desert southwest, either. Saturday was nice, so…

  • Shark Attack

    Quick post today. Heading down to the Boston Aquarium to take my grandson to see the fish and penguins. Wonder if there are any sharks – they are Owen’s favorites. No shark will eat today’s podcast, with Jonathan Richman, Light & Motion, Automatic, Squeeze, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, Pretenders, DiVinyls, the Bangles, My…

  • Comics

    I’ve been a comics reader for as long as I can remember. I loved looking at the comics as a child and have continued to read them today. They still put out a (classic) Peanuts strip daily. I have the first few volumes of the complete strips from the beginning and still chuckle at Charlie…

  • Independence Day

    Happy 4th of July weekend! What’re you doing for the holiday? We finally have a quiet weekend – had all of our fun last week and weekend, with vacation with my son, daughter, and grandson, a nephew’s wedding, and hosting my brother-in-law and his wife through Tuesday. We need to breathe. The weather, which may…