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Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]
All of my teams are bad. The Chicago Cubs, Syracuse Men’s basketball, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona, the Las Vegas Raiders and the Utah Jazz. Such a weird hodgepodge. Well perhaps they aren’t all bad, but none of them have much of a chance of allowing their fans to bask in the sweet warm sunshine of […]
Back north again and experiencing the reset that is a second Spring. One year we managed Spring in Grove City, Florida, followed by Southern Nevada, followed by Kihei, Hawaii, followed by Park City, Utah. That year of the four Springs is now established as something to work towards going forward. It was sort of accidental […]
Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]
Back in Park City, Utah. Snow. More snow. Still more snow. Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow and snow every day and night for the next two weeks. This was the sort of winter we had back in the early and mid-nineties. Back when some years it snowed on the fourth of July. I had […]