Category: General

  • It’s Friday, and a hot one again

    Today will be hot. I was up at 5:45am when a fitfully sleepful night just got worse with the hens yacking up a storm. Too early for them! The sun wasn’t coming up yet, so why were they strutting around their pen? The moon was out, but it’s not full, it’s waning, and in quarter…

  • The Wal-Mart deal

    My husband told me, this evening, that Drudge had a Wal-Mart article linked on his page, but when I went there, the page had changed, and going to the “Recent Drudge Headlines” we couldn’t easily find the link. He recalled it was from the Chicago Sun-Times, so going there we seached “Wal-Mart” and another article…

  • What’s eating me: Personalities and Sensory issues

    A recent thread on a e-list I’m on has caused me to desire to write this post. Regarding Sensory Integration Issues … my writing here is how they relate to ADD/ADHD, or the Edison Trait, or Bouncing Brains … as my Hyperthinking site here is named after. I haven’t spent much time developing this site…

  • Pumpkin Pie — Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving to All! It’s nearly over, a day of thanks and feasting. We are set to have pumpkin pie with real whipped cream in a bit, when the beaters chill off in the freezer enough to whip up the cream. Here’s the recipe for the pie, taken from Nourishing Traditions, (originally 1 pie) Pumpkin…

  • Jane Austen

    I’ve loved all the Jane Austen novels brought to “life” as movies the past several years. I admit openly here that I’ve never read one of them. Finances being tight, since I’ve been compelled to actually read the stories of late, I only recently was able to come into contact with a volume that I…