Oddball Observations

A little bit of baseball . . . On this day in 1961, Roger Maris of Fargo, North Dakota, hit his 61st home run of the year for the New York...

If one pays too much attention to the daily news, cycled and recycled endlessly on television, newspapers and the Internets, it can become a...

After our recent rains, in the area to our east that my poetic wife refers to as "The Savannah", the growth had turned a dark Iris...

Here's what the street in front of my house looked like yesterday afternoon after a tad of rain. While we were in a nice dry hous...

A somewhat indelicate story. Our black cat, Blackwell, coughed his cookies twice on the bedspread on my bed this summer.  I cleaned up the...

Ah, we're back once again with some chuckles, guffaws and horse laughs for your weekend.   My next door neighbor's yard crew with ...

Days of wine and madras.  One of my proteges, Bob Barclay, and I. Note the sunglasses atop heads.  Note, also, that it is night outside...