Johnny Appleseed. Written by Jodie Shepherd. Illustrated by Masumi Furukawa. Scholastic. ISBN: 978-0-545-22306-5. $3.99 (Amazon: $3.99 / No yet on Kindle). Johnny Appleseed was a real person. Most of us heard the stories of how he traveled about the country 200 or so years ago planting apple trees everywhere he went. But, he was a […]
Can you believe that after noting here that Earth Hour was coming up and getting all excited about it — well, I never got a chance to do anything about it. We had a planning meeting that day, and it was in DC. After the meeting, because we were there and it was supposed to […]
Today, we spent most of our day outside doing yard work. We’ll it seemed like all day but was only about 3 hours. We’d done housework first. But anyway we managed to do: finished weeding the strawberry patch planted 22 new strawberry plants pulled all the creeping jenny in the yard (before it goes to […]
Well, not really cabbages and kings, but close enough. First a whine: today is day 2 of a migraine — I’m done now, but my head seems not to care. Anyway, it has been awhile since I posted and I thought I should catch up a bit. First, we’ve been pushing back on the leaf […]
Today was one of those days that aren’t too bad if you can ignore the constant ringing in the ears. Yesterday, I managed to catch up on a lot of data entry and finished a project. So, that meant today I could try to get some reading in — the truth is if you don’t […]
Got to the doctor’s office yesterday and saw the PA. Now I have an Rx for Prednisone. Today is day two. I forgot about the headaches I always get while on the stuff. So far no difference and a few new spots. The itching is driving me crazy even with the cream they gave me. […]
If you’re a bit like me, the vegetable bins in the fridge have been renamed the ‘rotter drawers’. Can’t really deny it. Things that go in those drawers are out of sight and out of mind. I’ve pretty much solved that problem by putting only things that keep well in the drawers — like cheese […]
Well, today was a beautiful day. Since we got most of our shopping and errands done yesterday, we were free to work on home projects. So once I caught up on email and entered the books it was out to the yard to clean up. We managed in half-hour bouts to get most of the […]