It's almost Halloween.  Halloween marks the crossover to fall, at least in my mind.  After Halloween, the days seem a lot shorter and th...

I love oysters. I will eat them raw.  I will eat them cooked. I've eaten raw oysters on both coasts of the United States and in a fo...

It's back to the salt mines today.  Ugh.  Fall break never seems to last long enough.  I spent most of my fall break suffering from TM...

It's Fall break!  Yippeeee!! I have so many things I want to do.  I have projects to finish.  I need to supervise the cleaning of D2...

This past weekend, the weather was miserable.  After weeks of hot, sticky humidity, we got bombarded by rain.  A new weather system formed j...

We finally caught a break in the weather.  This was the first week in a long time which felt even close to a normal September day.  I think ...

D1 has been away for 34 days, and it will be another 90-or-so days before she returns, not that I'm counting or anything. Again, I fi...