I hope all of you survived last week’s heatwave without suffering heat prosti… Excuse me, I meant to say heat prostration. That’s better; it seems we had a so-called “Heat Dome” overhead that resulted in record-setting temperatures throughout much of the Southland and...
I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy (many people already do), but did you know that you can rent a goat, or even a herd of goats, to rid your property of weeds and brush? It’s true, there’s a company in San Diego that will rent you a herd of goats to create defensible...
Hello there, music lovers. I hope you like Electric Light Orchestra, for their song “Telephone Line” is, naturally, about telephones, and that’s what this week’s musing is all about…or aboot, as Canadians might say. Anyway, getting back to telephones, my cell phone,...
Last month’s Perseid meteor shower was exciting to watch, as usual, with 50 to 100 meteorites plunging toward the Earth at breakneck speed. This year’s shower peaked on Aug. 11 and 12 and remained active, but dwindling in size and numbers, until late in August....
Now that school is back in session, it’s time to kick back and enjoy life during school hours and enjoy life with all the interruptions and demands of the younger set. And speakin’ of the set, when the little he!!...s are here, they just wanna watch cartoons, when I...
This summer marks 65 years since I waved goodbye to my parents (as they leaped in the air and high-fived each other) after I was dropped off at Perris Hill Park in San Bernardino for a six-week-long summer camp adventure at Mill Creek Boys Ranch, high in the hills...
