My 8 year old grandson put together a Rube Goldberg contraption that actually worked. Sometimes I feel like my life was designed by Rube Goldberg. Wheeeee……..
river stone 1-14-11
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Category Archives: River of Stones
river stone 1-13-11
it’s just too easy to loose/lose my day into the internet
river stone 1-12-11
impulse buying is not usually a good thing, but these wildly colored, warmly insulated moonboots that I bought on sale for $15 five years ago are perfect for days like today
river stone 1-11-11
It’s the old 11:11 again.
we watch a bare-branched bush by the fence, filled with birds — three Cardinal pairs, a Titmouse, a Flicker, a Junco, and a Sparrow — all having their fill of feed until a bully Blue Jay descends
river stone 1-10-11
Even though I am not much interested in male companionship at this point in my life, every Monday night I drool over Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion). Whoever created that character knows what women respond to. And they cast the perfect word made flesh for that role.
river stone 1-8-11
The violence of the Right-eous rhetoric has born fruit with the shooting of Representative GiffordS. WORDS MATTER AMERICA!!!
River Stone 1-7-11
It does no good to “want” anything. Better to hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and be willing to deal with anything in between. I hope it won’t snow so that I can drive to Albany NY on Sunday to spend an overnight with my friends. If it snows too much, I’ll play with a few of the many craft projects I have going.
River Stone 1-6-11
It’s not that I like chaos, but chaos seems to like me. I feel like Pigpen in the Charlie Brown cartoons.
River Stone 1-5-11
They finished taking down the 100+ year old oak today. Most of it was dead, its brittle limbs threatening roofs and wires and hoop-shooting. If it had grown in the middle of the woods, it would still be standing there, biding its time. But our houses grew around it, and so it was only a matter of time.
River Stone 1-4-11
Dentist today, haircut tomorrow, doctor on Thursday. I wonder if, like a car, it gets to the point at which it’s just not cost effective to keep fixing it up.