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Due to the way my day job figures out vacation time, I usually take the week of July 4th off. So, I’m currently on vacation. Even on vacation I make it a point to get my walking in. Someday I may ‘graduate’ to running. HR at my day job had a one-week program to promoteContinue reading “Vacation, Walking and Plants and Words”

Maybe I do have a knack for finding the bizarre. This is a link to some discussion (and bizarre humor) about the grave of a porpoise found in the ruins of a monastery found on one of the smallest channel islands. The Youtube channel is called ‘Ask a Mortician’ and hosted by Caitlin, who, whenContinue reading “The Grave of the Secret Porpoise”

Now that things are beginning to return to normal, I think back to what I saw right at the beginning of the lockdown. My day job was considered to be a critical business (putting us on the level of a grocery store), so work continued. The first workday after the lockdown, I drove over aContinue reading “Covid-19, Target: Earth, Coming Attraction”

A couple more bits of trivia: In the last chapter of Raven: The Call from Central, Raven opens up her Necris Bible and reads Psalm 103, although her favorite is Psalm 92. It might be pretty obvious that Psalm 92 is the author’s favorite Psalm. Along with that, while her teammates remark that you neverContinue reading “Raven of Iskandar Trivia and Book 5 Status”

Several years ago, we transplanted several rose bushes into our front yard. We have a live-in contractor (best way to go!) and one of his customers wanted the rose bushes gone. So he brought them home. Not all of them survived the transplant. Two years ago, I had the task of trimming them down andContinue reading “Trim Your Rose Bushes”