Category Archives: Miscellaneous

I did it! I finally clicked the scary Update button! I think it worked. WordPress has been nagging me for months to upgrade from 3.3.1 to 3.9.2. The blog had stopped working with the latest PHP at the host, so … Continue reading →

We are back after our short trip to Maine. The weather was grand, so we did a lot of hiking. On one trek, we ran into this fellow sitting in a tree. That is a porcupine. Cute and cuddly, huh? … Continue reading →

We have an interesting plant blooming in the house. Here is a photo of it. Nice flower, hunh? Except that this flower is a bit different. It’s kind of small. Actually…. it’s really small. Really, really small. Really. Check out … Continue reading →

When you wake up on a Sunday morning in January, and you see this: telling you that the outside air temperature is 15.3° ….. and that the inside air temperature is at 60.8° …. and headed in the direction that … Continue reading →

I just went mobile. I purchased a tablet computer. Here it is: It’s kind of cute. It works OK. WiFi only, but you have to start somewhere. The user manual that came with it is a bit odd. Tiny thing. … Continue reading →

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published, on the front page, a story about the chemical spill in West Virginia. Being interested in what is going on, I turned to Page A 4 and found this. That isn’t a shadow. … Continue reading →

We have a bunch of CFL’s around the house. They do save electricity, but they do not last as long as advertised. Case in point, the bulb shown below. Because of the high mortality rate of the CFL’s, I have … Continue reading →

I was digging around in the refrigerator vegetable crisper yesterday, looking for something ( I have forgotten what it was ) when I ran into this: The Carrot was at the bottom of the bin, growing. Really. Growing in the … Continue reading →