Should I Live to see 90 … I had no idea there was something called a “bucket list” when I was raising hell all over the world between the ages of 16 and 40 … I suppose we should introduce a bucket list of sorts to our kids at a much earlier age. In any [...]
Date: Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Time: Noon (and just woke up) Status: Having “the gift” Info: I have a number of things on the “to do” list today, including clearing the gutters, and recycling about 60 pounds of glass and untold number of plastic water bottles. My English bulldog “LuLu” has already received her morning [...]
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011 Time: Morning Status: A Fresh Set of Downs Info: I remember not that long ago when Saturday and Sunday mornings were spent wondering if my bride was going to continue her “vicadin vacation.” Sunday mornings were normally spent planning the week’s menu, putting together a grocery list and working with [...]
Even criminals need partners. We all need someone to hang on onto – to trust – to prepare ourselves for each day. Children prepare themselves for their mirror in the morning before breakfast. Teenagers, if they can find the mirror, prepare themselves for their girlfriends, their pals, themselves. Adults, well we prepare ourselves; as best [...]
Our friends in the northeast get walloped with the first “dusting” of the winter! The photos we’ve received do not resemble the peace and beauty here along the Pacific. In one quick blast, the plans for many were seriously disrupted. Downed trees and electrical lines and all the varied elements which come from living within [...]
Autumn. Truly the best time of the year here along the Pacific. Temperatures are nearly perfect during the day while the comforter is needed when bedtime comes. Windows open and full house of women (including the bulldog) and the football game is on with a World Series game on for later in the afternoon. Another [...]
Weekend mornings here along the river have been slow starters for the past ten months or so. Most mornings the girls would sleep in and the trick to keeping them upstairs is to stay away from brewing the morning’s first pot of coffee. Bonnie has a tremendous nose for coffee and even opening the decanter [...]
When Tom Brady tells his receivers “you have the best half of your life, and I’ll have the best half of my life” it’s an indication that things did not go as planned during the first thirty minutes of the football game. I speak of course of the 2001 AFC Divisional Game held in Foxboro, [...]
It’s Sunday morning here. Autumn has arrived and Mother Nature herself has watered our modest little garden where the roma tomatoes, funky sweet cucumbers, heavily scented oregano and basil, and California bell peppers continue to supplement our salads during the week. The normal routine of a Sunday morning continues as the girls stay upstairs watching [...]
It’s seven-thirty in the morning and a weekend morning to boot and the one place I ought to be is now vacant and needs to be made. Uggh. What in the world am I doing awake? Only several hours ago I sit on the same couch I watched the SOX/NYY game from during a disappointing [...]