We needed to replace our trusty and rusty Franklin stove in the Music Room where we’re living this winter, because the bottom metal plate burned out last week. James did a temporary fix — great handyman that he is! — by placing a piece of sheet metal on the bottom.
But it wouldn’t be long before [...]
We have a clothes washer, but not a dryer.
One reason for not owning a dryer is that we prefer clothes that are dried out on the traditional clothesline. The natural way. Sun-dried clothes smell so fresh and good!
Another reason is that our electricity is not wired for 220. Yes, things are primitive out here In [...]
BOOKMARKS!
Hundreds of them have accumulated on my computer over the past couple of years.
Tonight I am finally grabbing the Firefox browser monkey by the neck — ripping it off my back — and starting to go through each and every bookmark to see if:
1.) …the links still work. (A surprising number of them don’t!)
2.) …I [...]
For the second day in a row, our quiet skies are being BUZZED by small planes and copters, searching the area for marijuana crops.
The guy and gal who came out to install the HughesNet satellite internet system yesterday (HOORAY! It’s definitely faster than dialup! We like that!) said that they’d read something about it in [...]
All of a sudden, it seems that everything has gotten so much more sophisticated on the WorldWide Web.
Since James and I gave away our television to a thrift store in St. Louis in March of 2002 — we couldn’t STAND it anymore! — most of our news comes from the computer.
During most of [...]
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