The overall world may feel messed up, but most of the things immediately around us seem to be pretty good!

Well, it is the first result you get when you put "why do I fall asleep all the time" into Google!

Thank you! It was a really nice outing... and a chance to decompress. Crescent Lake is on the Olympic Peninsula, within the Olympic National Park. About 11 miles of US Hwy 101 runs alongside the south

Thank you! It's was lovely and peaceful, thank you... all I could ask for!

Thanks, appreciate it! Yeah, we sure do live in interesting times. I know scientists are doing great things... let's just hope their work comes to fruition before we all blow ourselves up!

Thank you @ewkaw!

Thank you!

We've had a season long battle with rodents here... and everything finally started going better after their numbers finally shrank towards nothingness — helped by a nesting pair of Coopers Hawks and the

Pretzel logic is exactly right, and those are two really good examples, along with Bush I's "I'll never raise taxes."

I read an interesting article a few months back, relating to how many choices we have to make in the course of an average day. These days the number of choices we make in a given day is at an all-time

Sad, but true. Sometime last year I watched an interesting YouTube clip with a political blogger talking to a psychologist, exploring the (disturbing) reality that current politics is more like so-called

Ah yes, that's another really good example. I remember some apple juice I bought at a truck stop during one road trip with a label that read: "100% juice, made with concentrate from Canada, Mexico

Thank you!

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Sometimes nature is the greatest artist! Sunset 5 minutes ago, from my back yard. #sunset #nature #beauty

Excellent! This sounds like a really worthwhile and much needed project... much succerss to you! Heading off to join up!

Which, in turn, was just Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" repackaged, using a formula that can be traced all the way back to the Vedic Upanishads, circa 800 BCE. My guess is that humans

Ah yes, that! The near mystical quality of an ingredient known in our family only as "Grandpa's lobster sauce," which invariably tasted different when he made it than when anyone else followed

That's the thing about older things, isn't it? You get into the period I consider "the maintenance years," after which follows the decision of whether you want to just gradually rebuild, or start

Wow! Some things never change. We lived in San Pedro when I was a teenager (late 1970s) and I remember how my parents absolutely loathed going to Fuengirola whenever friends from Scandinavia or the UK