Oddball Observations

  Picking up from my success with a Cherry Clafoutis recently, I decided to make one with a partial package of blueberries that had been tak...

  It's Full Moon Friday! Also the final time my friend Phil can celebrate his birthday by saying "I'm seventy- - - -." How...

  Your scribe, some time in the 1940's. Gadfrey!  That necktie!  That collar!  That smirk! Then . . . 70 or so years later. Thank gawd! ...

  The plants seem to be enjoying our cooler and wetter weather of late. The gourd vines are beginning to climb their stakes and heading for ...

  Once upon a time there was a curious black cat. He used to show up on our back wall from time to time. While curious, he was also cautious...

  Yesterday we had a young Mountain Jay in the birdbath. Today it was a young Robin enjoying the waters. He's nearly submerged in this p...

  We finally got a fairly heavy rain here last night. We were watching "The Queen" on Netflix and sometimes the crashing thunder e...