The world is definitely too much with us. Wordsworth thought so, back then, and it is even more so nowadays with all these newfangled gadgets and gizmo’s.
They no longer dare to be simple. They believe that if they, and you, don’t have the ability spectacularly to multi-task, the heavens will fall: and therein lies the [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Simplify
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
That Obama Smile
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The president, let’s face it, shouldn’t be caught smiling all over the place, for the simple reason that it so upsets the opposition.
First he was caught on that famous TV interview, showing teeth, to the point where the interlocutor had the temerity impertinently to ask the president if he were punch drunk!
The latest smile fest [...]
Elk and rolls
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Janice and I, alas, are no longer virgins: we have seen our first elk, close up, and no more than a mile from home.
Most folk around here tend to have an elk story or two and, though new here, we felt somewhat bereft, having no sightings of our own, try as we tried, ranging the [...]
Ties that bind
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Good fences make good neighbors, and good neighbors we do have, albeit without benefit of good fences.
In fact what separates neighbors behind and to the left of us is nothing but simple railroad ties, just one tie hugging the ground and marking off our separate domains — so that even Louis, Mal’s dachshund, can skip [...]
