Yesterday…

Did anyone see the strange weather around the St. Louis area?
Starting in the morning and continuing during Easter dinner and through all of the afternoon the weather fluxed from blizzard like snow, rain, a sort of light ice and bright sunshine. Do I get to blame global warming?
I had a nice weekend. I managed to [...]

truck maintenance

Is there anything as depressing as learning you need $700 worth or work done on your vehicle, when you thought you were actually doing well for once?
Last year my dad put new shocks on my truck (I helped!). He was awesome and I actually enjoyed doing the work. I mentioned that he had always seemed [...]

behold… the birk

My first official pair of birks. After last summer, I’ve decided to give up bad shoes! I no longer buy any cheapy, make-my-poor-feet-unhappy shoes. Peg, very kindly gave me a pair of birks – a plastic pair, that I wore too much and are currently smelly, but when I bought my first pair today, the [...]

online classes

This has been interesting to say the least. I’m taking 4 credits this semester for Library Science. One credit/class I finished the first day. All we had to do was read some papers and take the quizes. I did it in one evening.
The other class is more involved, but I don’t have internet access from [...]

art in bloom – St. Louis, 2008

This weekend I got to go to the St. Louis Art Museum, with Sonia and Peg to see the art in bloom displays. We had a really good time and the arrangements were quite excellent. I think my favorite was inspired by John La Farge’s stain glass window of “Hollyhocks” that [...]

all the lost puppies…

I like to peruse the local rescue lists on www.petfinder.com periodically. If a special dog or cat popped out at me, it’s possible that I might get another, but usually I just look. It’s sad, but I like to see what kind of animals are out there – if one seems like they would be [...]