Sept 22, 2023
I've heard that some parts of the country have had very hot/humid weather this summer. We were fortunate to come out of a cooler/wetter spring/early summer into slightly warmer summer, but not hot sum...
Sept 21, 2023
Mike (the late much-missed Fredo's husband) tells me that people in Vermont are tired of the crowds coming into the state to view the fall leaves, and are trying to figure out how to cut down on the n...
Sept 18, 2023
I am still working through the 1500 pages of the Greasy/My Bloggers messages that Jeri & I wrote back and forth for 15 years. I copy/pasted them from the blog messages to Word documents. When I initia...
Sept 14, 2023
It's no longer 'early September' but seems like the month has barely started, and October will be here too soon.By this time most years we'll have had a killing frost, and then warm up for Indian Summ...
Aug 28, 2023
Labor Day has always signaled the end of summer for me. Here in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the change in the angle of the sun slows down our plants and many years we've had a killing frost ...
Aug 25, 2023
Today I've posted in as all three of my MyBloggers accounts just for the fun of it. Troutbend was the original one about living in Colorado. I branched out to Kitchentales, which is supposed to be rec...
Aug 6, 2023
The mountain lion is looking for baby foxes. He's just outside the dining room window - 10 feet from our back door. There seems to be one baby fox left - the only fox coming around now. Both parents ...
July 26, 2023
Yesterday Mr. Misery Guts (I didn't call him that to his face) got dressed and announced it was time to go to the emergency room.They did a chest x-ray and CT scan, and his gallbladder is badly infect...
July 24, 2023
The other day, the propane delivery guy irately informed me that he had to back up three times in order to make the turn onto our bridge without hitting one of the uprights. He's been coming here for ...
July 4, 2023
When I was writing about the sofa, I was trying to envision the coffee table, and couldn't bring it to mind. I just now came across a 2010 reference to it:"I finally got my Chateau Beauvais coffee tab...
July 4, 2023
Going through Jeri's old posts and the many messages we sent each other over the years caused me to revisit the recipes I posted as Kitchentales. I just finished a 280 page cookbook, 1500 recipes, got...
July 3, 2023
While I'm thinking about it, I wanted to tell you about Jeri's sofa. She always struggled with posting pictures so we had to wait for her family to post some on Facebook.The brand is Rachlin, and it i...
July 1, 2023
Going through Jeri's old posts, I came across one where she posted pictures. They are not displaying in the blog, but clicking on the post brings up the source code for the pictures, so I'm pasting it...
June 17, 2023
"Treat yourself like I-95 and never stop working on yourself no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else."Substitute your favorite local public works project. I can think of several around here...
June 12, 2023
Remember Sue? I'm going through letters from Jeri that I saved over the years, and decided I should check on Sue because we lost touch with her a few years ago. After she lost computer access, I wrote...
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