I promised you an account of the eclipse…

I’d studied the weather forecasts for two weeks trying to decide on Oregon, Casper WY or Idaho Falls…and best promises seemed for Idaho. But hotels were pricing up to a thousand a night in the area. No way. I priced a Motel 6 in Butte, MT, and yep, about...

Well, the Scottish Fool brought me a bird…

A live bird. A relatively unscathed bird. He laid it on my new bedspread…which I had had the foresight to cover with a blanket. I gathered up the offering and carefully set it in the Japanese maple outside, so it could recover from the experience. Our bird...