A better morning so far.

Yesterday began with finding a piece of my favorite set of glasses, an etched Great Wave pattern that Jane got me long, long ago, broken in the dishwasher. And escalated into a birthday present probably involving an internet scam artist on Amazon… Then the Books...

I am having a morning…

Amazon. TWO rounds with pirates selling on Amazon, one I suspect being an offshore seller outright pirating everything in print and selling subscriptions to their ‘service’—the other being a piece of equipment I need to get the Rusalka cover...

Recipes: some from me, some from you…

We haven’t done this in a while, but I thought I’d hand on some recipes you may or may not enjoy… 1. no-beans-no-onions-no tomatoes pulled pork/chili. Biiiig lot of boneless pork shoulder cut as spareribs; crockpot. Put pork in crockpot before 8 am....

65 degrees and blowing a gale…45 tonight.

It’s downright chilly. I’m working, as when not?—and take breaks to go out and take advantage of the wind to use a plastic kitchen colander to sift rocks and gravel for the dry stream bed. Which got me one of those odd drivebys—the usual chap...