Month: August 2002

  • Firelight & Candles

    Candle light is so refreshing, particularly in these days of modern electricity! It’s a dull day here, where we live, and it’s not raining, the wind isn’t blowing very much. It’s about 73 degrees F., but still, it’s dull and lifeless. A day like this the fireplace would be nice to use. Oh, we don’t…

  • The Unveiling of Who I Am: a little bit, at least

    As you readers may have noticed, this blog is not totally anonymous any longer. Today I added my first name to the posts. So it’s officially a “semi-anonymous” blog now. Maybe I’m known just by that, maybe not. If you know me by my first name, you may have already known me just by what…

  • Flies, Strider, & Bleu

    Flies. Summer. Ugh. Why is it that flies WANT to come inside houses? They are only around outside when it’s warm … no flies around in the Winter. So, in the Summer, when the house is COLD from the Air Conditioner, why do they come inside? Just to be pests. Sit on the ceiling, sit…

  • Hummingbirds, not much rain, Hummingbirds

    The rain that comes is not enough. Tree leaves are turning brown, or way-too-early-for-Autumn yellow or red, etc. We’ve been in drought mode for the past 5+ years, things seemed better the first part of this year, but that’s not the case this Summer. Storms pop up and drop nothing on us. Frustration to hear…

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