Helen was always good at nest-building, as I recall.
This came in handy, because as I once figured out, we went through over 40 moves before I graduated from high school. Many of those were within the same community, of course. Arriving in Abilene, Texas for instance, we lived for a time in a motel with [...]

The old lady [see previous post] was admitted to the hospital yesterday, and yes, she has pneumonia. She’s also tried twice to “escape” and almost succeeded last night in ripping the IV out of her arm and making it to the hallway. Urk.
So it’s come to this.
The next step is “chemical restraint,” i.e. sedation, [...]

A slightly different version of this and one other at FotoFeed. That’s from early yesterday afternoon, taken five minutes south of town looking roughly north.

Rio Grand Gorge w/ storm over Lobo Peak

Probably only Leos broadcast their birthdays in advance. No, not to get presents or put on airs — Leos don’t have to — but because they feel free to do so. It’s natural. The last thing my wife would do, or would have done even many years ago, is talk up her birthday, except privately [...]

I’m slowly catching up, still a day or two behind, but there are four more to see.
Meanwhile: here, for your viewing pleasure, is a baby horned toad. Yes, I finally “caught” one. This is a telephoto shot from about four feet away, cropped in Photoshop to bring it even closer. That’s one reason it’s a [...]

Things like this never happen when I have my camera with me.
Yesterday my wife and I took our exercise walk up the mesa. On the way back we saw two baby horned toads! These were two separate incidents, amazingly. And when I say “baby,” I mean tiny, about the size of my thumbnail. I took [...]

Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin.

No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

Aerial image © 2008 by Eva-Marie Brekkestø

Oh, those hoaxers are busy, all right. It’s hard work, too. Just you try getting a bunch of people out to a grain field in the middle of the night and creating something like this in a few minutes, then getting away without leaving any tracks or tire [...]

Man, are there a lot of bugs this year.
The funny thing is, for the longest time before and after we moved out here I had the idea that there weren’t any bugs in New Mexico. I have no idea why. My late mother-in-law, reeling with ecological guilt, used to say “they don’t salt the streets [...]

I did something different today, bought a brushcutter/line trimmer at Sears. On the way to the dentist, no less, and both bills were the same!
It’s huge and weighs a ton. There isn’t even a place to put it, but I have one now. I just wanted to be able to cut the weeds and tall [...]