It’s summertime, and the weekend, which means I pretty much want to do nothing but lounge around reading books & magazines (or blogs posts like the ones below).

And sometimes I actually manage to do that, but then I feel (at least briefly!) like (more…)

Here’s a photo from our recent jaunt to Monument Valley. Sometimes a little getaway (more…)

On a personal note, I love painting, and hope to keep improving. (And I also hope to keep the flow of hobby-related expenses staunched, now that I should have enough supplies to keep me occupied for a while…)

Happily, I finished up a few paintings recently. Here are (more…)

Don’t you wish the weekend were longer? I suppose it’s good that it isn’t, since I tend to spend more on the weekends than during the week, but I sure I could use more time to relax.

And there are plenty of good articles to read while relaxing. Here are a few of them from the past week. (more…)

Sometimes I think it’d be fun to have a free-day challenge — where you have the day off and have to come up with creative things to do for free that are outside the usual play-on-the-computer, watch-a-DVD norm.

Me, I’m thinking squirt gun fight. Maybe I’ll plan that for this summer when it’s boiling hot outside. What are (more…)

We have two 4ft x 4ft container boxes that I plant with vegetables using the square foot gardening method. I love it, because stuff actually grows and tastes good. (This is a happy thing for a former black thumb.)

This year I planted potatoes for the first time, and they were a success! So now we have lots of little new potatoes just waiting to be turned into
Crash Hot Potatoes. (more…)