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  • Because I Believe

    The truth is out there, for those who choose to seek it, and listen when it's told. An Inconvenient Truth <link courtesy of NPR> Interviews, book excerpt, movie trailer. Take a look at one, or all but be sure t…

  • Tuesday was a bust. About two hours after I arrived at work, we experienced a brown-out that took down the phones, the computers and half the lights in the building. Ten minutes after that, everything went from brown t…

  • I owe Emme a debt of gratitude for making good on her offer of sharing the warmth. The temps here this weekend reached into the 90's. Wonderful! You'll never hear me complain about the heat. The AMP, languishing unde…

  • Pause to remember Happy Holiday. Happy blogging. pw

  • There is a lot of blogging this morning about American Idol. So, of course, I figured, why should mine be any different? Happy blogging. pw

  • Happy Hump Day Happy blogging. pw

  • Ugh....so now, they've backed off the forecast and are saying mid-70's by week's end instead of mid-80's. I'll bet by tomorrow they'll be saying mid-60's. Emme keeps telling me she'd gladly share the heat from her ne…

  • I've discovered the identity of my mystery vine: Vinca Vine I've always thought this was some type of fair-weather house plant, but accidently discovered that it will act as a perennial, even in the hinterlands of Ho…

  • This is fun Happy blogging. pw I couldn't have said it better myself.

  • Friday didn't come soon enough this week for me. But it has finally arrived, and as an added bonus it looks like we'll get a break in the weather. Tomorrow looks especially promising, sunshine and moderately temperate …

  • An awful morning on xanga followed by an awful day at work. They asked me at the last minute to work a meeting tonight. Again. Third night in a row. I'm just venting....that's not what I intended to blog about. I'…

  • Grrrrrr......xanga...... Yes, they've "fixed" things very well. Try to post a comment and receive "page not found". Try again. Same results. How many times are they going to make me repeat myself? They're starting …

  • I woke up today in the usual fashion, dragged my butt out of a warm bed, padded downstairs, blindly stumbled toward the coffee pot for my first cup of Nectar of the Gods, and then it happened: And she was blinded by the…

  • Babies, babies, babies! My xangapal and neighbor Valreads just became a new grandmother! Stop by and wish her well and see pictures of her adorable new grandson. Yesterday I saw another new baby, born last Wed to a co…

  • I hope everyone had a nice mother's day. My own children awarded me for all my years of hard work with a new bird feeder. Not a fancy, aesthetically pleasing lighthouse-shaped feeder of lovely cedar wood to match the e…

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  • It's 39 degrees and raining cats and dogs. (Maybe one of them will catch that horrid squirrel that ate my lighthouse.) Not bad for March weather. Too bad this is MAY. No end in sight to the wetness in the forecast. …

  • A few weeks ago I invested in a new bird feeder. An adorable cedar-wood feeder fashioned like a lighthouse, suiting our backyard nautical theme. I filled it with sunflower seed meat, a special favorite of the goldfinch…

  • I look back across the sands of time, trying to figure out just exactly where we went astray. Not the personal we, the collective we that is called USA. I'm thinking it has a lot to do with the Republicans and the De…

  • Praise the xangagods. They returned the old version of the text editor to my site. Why they ever plagued me with the new one is still a mystery. It arrived uninvited. I seriously considered parking the bus over tha…

  • This is xanga's answer to everything I try to do in the new version of their editor: This is my response to xanga's generic error message: Is anyone else having problems?? TGIF Happy blogging. pw

  • I don't like the new editor. It doesn't work. pw

  • Yesterday Mother Nature threw a day of summer into the spring mix. It was warm and sunny, a delightful day. A delightful warm, sunny, put the top down and drive the convertible to work day! Meanwhile, at home:All that…

  • This cartoon represents for me everything that is wrong with American immigration policies. It would seem the public doesn't want these people here, unless, of course, they're working for us. Typical American-way dou…

  • SSDD Happy blogging. pw *cartoons unabashedly borrowed from Slate.com

  • The AMP project is nearly complete. The illusive pool people finally showed up last Friday and installed the new liner. It's a beautiful dark blue color; we've dubbed it "Pacific Blue". With three garden hoses running…

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