Home Grown Tomatoes

First off: apologies to those of you who found yesterday’s post incomprehensible because it came in a single, solid paragraph. Like all things technology, WordPress was not happy leaving things alone, and a few weeks back it implemented its “block” system, assuring me I could go back to “classic” anytime I liked. I feel I […]

The Last Picture Show

The first movie I fell asleep during was in 1996. My friend Matt and I were at the Flick Theatre watching Star Trek First Contact, and he said something witty, to which I didn’t reply. He took that as disapproval of his talking during the movie, but when I jerked awake a few short minutes […]

Unreal Estate

What pandemic? Gunnison County has no virus cases, area businesses have more work than employees to work it, and real estate has turned completely unreal. While setting our for our Saturday Inspection Tour, Oz and I ran across the realtor who sold our lot to us. Kiley was re-establishing a “for sale” sign that took […]

Cereal Science

Hang on everyone: I’m about to get all sciencey on you. Awhile back, I took a close look at my cereal bowl collection. I mentioned in an early blog post that these Tupperware bowls have been my breakfastware of choice for as long as I can remember — 55 years or more. No matter what […]

Outwitted: Fernando

The other day I mentioned how technology is outwitting me at every turn these days. However, it is not the only aspect of life that is getting the best of me. No, I am also being undone by something small. Something unknown, sort of. As part of Gunnison’s great rodent infestation of 2020, a creature […]

Believing in Dis

I first started watching road bicycling back at a time when many Americans got introduced to the sport: as Texan Lance Armstrong was dominating the Tour de France. At one point, and still in his mind I’m sure, he won seven Tours in a row, 1999-2005. However, all of those wins have since been negated […]

Outwitted: Technology

I keep getting outwitted at every turn, which is adding a whole layer of frustration to my days, these days. A lot of it involves technology, of course. There’s my TV, which still isn’t speaking to the VCR and DVD player. It did, for one brief moment, but the moment passed. The only thing I […]

Movin’ on Up

I know, I know: I’ve been slacking, badly. But my bike race has reached the Alps, which is the whole point of everything, and I just can’t focus in that many directions at once. Here is exciting news, I’m sure: Gunnison is one of five counties (out of 64) approved by the State of Colorado […]

Vax Americana

Science and I have never been the best of friends. Not scientists: why, some of them are my friends. Going through school, however, one weakness showed itself over and over again. I feel like I mostly went through the motions in my science classes, and rarely did I understand our objective for classroom experiments. Science […]

Bright, Sunshiney Day

This is the entirety of the blog post I started yesterday and never got back to: “Today is my birthday. I have now officially completed 58 trips around the sun (and we do, finally, have sun today).” Much of the reason this didn’t go any further was the way the day unfolded, much more socially […]