What Am I Going to Do With 10 Trees? (And 2 Bushes?)
2014-08-07 – What am I going to do with 10 trees and two bushes? It’s all a result of a survey I took part in given by the Arbor Day […]
Tag Archives: Nature
Unexpressed Mirth—A Ticking Time Bomb? Or Forgotten?
2014-08-05 – Back in the Sixties, it was common knowledge that unexpressed anger would fester and come out in unexpected ways. Like an overheated boiler, you would blow off steam. […]
I’ve Been Planting Trees
2014-07-03 – For the last week or so, I’ve been planting trees: three so far, one more today. One red oak, two sugar maples, and a ginkgo. These are small […]
Unbalanced Load
2014-05-18 – Sometimes when I’m sitting at the desk in my subterranean lair, I begin to notice a sound. Wub-wub-wub-wub. That’s the sound of the washer trying to spin an […]
The Angel of Death Did Not Pass Over
2014-05-15 – As we drove home from the hospital tonight when she died, we noticed that the moon was full. The last time the moon was full, it was Passover, […]
Dandy Dandelions
2014-05-11 – Yesterday the world was awash with dandelions. There were none the day before. They just sprouted up overnight. I noticed them yesterday on my first long bike ride […]
What Can I Complain About Now?
2014-05-08 – For the first time this year, every day in the five-day forecast hits 70 degrees (20 degrees Celsius). I just got back from a walk in the park […]
Born Again and Again
2014-03-30 – My brother-in-law Tim seems to have more than one birthday. Oh, they’re all in the last week of March, but they seem to move around each year. His […]
The Music of Spring
2014-03-20 – We had our piano tuned yesterday. There are 88 keys on a piano, but there are far more strings than keys (over 200, depending on the type […]
Opposable Toes
2014-03-13 – I’m not much for bragging, but I have one talent that fills me so with pride that I can’t even help myself. So here it is: I […]
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