December 30, 2012

December 29, 2012

Eye Doc and other matters

Given that the Mayan calendar did not deliver its doomsday scenario, I rather doubt the fiscal cliff will either, I had some 'stuff' to get done before the close of the year.  I was pleased to see that I'm not the only person waiting until the last minute to spend medical FSA dollars. My regular...

December 23, 2012

Tick Tock

We are celebrating the holiday simply this year.  Gift giving is minimized--we all have what we need, and our wants are small.  I have a wreath on the door, but I did not put up a tree.  No, I'm not  bah-humbug, but we are doing the things that are important:  spending time...

December 21, 2012

Catching Up

"No one could accuse me of being prolific," I mutter to myself when I see (1) how long it has been since my last post, and (2) how few posts I've made in any month. It has been a busy year, and absent...

December 5, 2012

Meaningful Conversations

My friend, Bob Blake, recorded a segment on PBS's "This I Believe".  You can listen to it here.  Bob is a special friend of mine in that he is the one of just a few people (I wrote only, at first, and that seemed too narrow, but that may have been correct) in my off-line life with whom ...

November 28, 2012

Patio

Here it is, the the ungrouted patio on my SR project.  It is beautiful, and I'm thrilled.  Today the brick layers will use a grout bag and mortar the joints. The patio is just the right...

November 25, 2012

Thanksgiving Post-Post Mortem--and a Purposefully Rambling Post of Elusive Merit

What a joy it was to be a Thanksgiving guest.  My daughter and her husband did an outstanding job. Everything was perfect! (And I did serve as the turkey technical advisor). While it was the first time in 26 years that I've not hosted TG, the happy circumstance, it was also the first time in 34...

November 22, 2012

November 22, 2012

I'm still toying around with my grass pictures that I took a couple of weekends ago.  I sure like this rendition which I achieved using the posterizing and inversion layers. It is just 'hack' work,...