A Picture’s Worth 1000 Entries

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. – – – Shirley Jackson “Raising Demons” We did get yet more snow last night, but it only amounted to about two very fluffy inches. It was still a pain to have to clean…

– Shrimp and cocktail sauce– Pizza (bought half-cooked from my favorite pizzeria to be cooked the rest of the way just before dinner)– Magner’s apple cider– Pumpkin pie– Chocolate pound cake No muss, no fuss, no mess, no stress. I’m thankful.

I got home from work to find that Management had mulched all of our gardens today. I have seven, maybe eight sunflowers that survived the mulching. Two don’t look too healthy though. I don’t know why I bother.

Kittehs and water don’t usually mix, but Nazzaning, a six-year-old Turkish Van cat (Turkish Vans are natural swimmers), is using water for her own good. She was suffering from partial paralysis in her paw and couldn’t walk anymore. A neurologist at the hospital suggested hydrotherapy to help Nazzaning walk again. He explained, “Her muscles needed…

Twelve years ago Father’s day was Sunday, June 17th. I know because my father died on Father’s Day in 1990. He’d missed dying by heart attack in 1970. He missed dying by stroke in 1972. Both were diseases that were exacerbated, if not out-and-out caused, by smoking. Through it all, he peristed in smoking, to…

I got my annual raise today. It works out to 3.25%, which is slightly over the 3% rate that the head of my department was given to work with for our entire department. My .25% is someone else’s loss. I feel gratified that they value my work so highly, but I feel badly that someone…