happy stuff.

went canoeing again this morning. we saw a few sandpipers (which are cool looking birds and look funny when they fly) and a whole lot of ducks. my favorite were 5 of them sitting/standing in a row on a log sticking up out of the water. of course, my head immediately sang, “five brown and [...]

i swam 2 quarter mile lap-sets last night, both around 13 minutes each! the last time i timed myself, it took me 17 minutes! i was in the groove! i could have swum longer, except that i was getting dizzy. mmm… groove…

this morning, i got in the car and realized i had forgotten my cell phone. so, i got out and unlocked the front door and went in and got the phone and locked the door and went back out to the car and realized that i wanted to have a new audiobook because the one [...]

(*note* this post was originally drafted in 2005, but i never published it.  i found it again today and decided to post it.  enjoy!) awhile back, galetea introduced me to the website orisinal. it is a delightful set of very soothing free internet games that i tend to go to when i need to relax [...]

“There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens and what we do.” “I never got where I am today by supposin’ I was goin’ to lose…” –Terry Prachett, Hat Full of Sky

so, we needed to replace a section of gutter on our house. and we have trees that shed lots of little bits. and it’s rained here recently. so, rather than immediately fill our new gutters with all of the little bits that were piling up on the roof, the man (should we call him mr. [...]

my favorite simple summer sandwich is sliced ripe tomato, yellow cheese (colby or cheddar), and a thin layer of mayo on wheat bread. my favorite, more complex summer sandwich is on cinnamon-raisin bread. it has pineapple cream cheese, maybe some jalepeno jelly, thinly sliced smoked ham and alfalfa sprouts. i know it sounds a little [...]

ok. i’ll admit it. i love desktop wallpaper. i love to change my desktop wallpaper. i do it probably about once every six weeks or so. ever since our trip to europe, i have been using a lot of the “arty” shots that i took–mostly around paris. my favorite source of free, non-commercial wallpapers is [...]

last night, we were watching winged migration and ginger walked into the room. there was a small songbird hopping around on the screen, making appropriate songbird noises. ginger immediately went into the semi-crouch mode that we normally see on windowsills and proceeded to stare more intently at the television than i’ve ever seen her do [...]

today, a friend and i biked to paoli, a little town about 15 miles out or so that is a popular biking destination. last year was the first i had ever gone to paoli and even in the last year, it’s gotten cuter. there are now 3 different art gallery-type things, something called the “schoolhouse [...]