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(Feel free to sing title to the tune of “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano”.) I remarked to the Prof several times this summer that with the old oak gone out front (see entry from January 17, 2011: Like An Oak On The Wire regarding that sad day) the squirrels on our property seemed…

As all good postcards do, this one arrives after the vacation is over:

Technically this entry isn’t accurately titled. Quite a few men and women have gone here before, for this is a story about the downstairs “powder room” make-over. We’ve lived in the condo for a while now, and though I made a push to repaint the downstairs three years ago, I ran out of steam after…

Tomorrow can’t come too quickly. I’m getting pretty darned uncomfortable again – I’ve gained 18 pounds of fluid in ten days and I’m starting to feel like a water balloon. I’ve had more than one person joke that they ought to just put a spigot in side, and I’m starting to see the practicality of…

OK, I got curious. If one is “hapless”, then what is “hap”? Immediate guess was “hap” as in “happy”, or “with hap”. This would make “hap” the gladsome quality a happy person possesses. That didn’t quite fit the definition of hapless as I knew it though, so I poked about on the web and discovered…

Palimpsest’s Rules for Your Daily Survival 1. The Two Flush Rule: When in a public bathroom, and the first flush turns out to be incomplete, flush again. Your adoring public does not adore all you produce. (This is a good idea in your private bathroom as well, but since that doesn’t offend me, I’ll leave…