Hello! and happy 2026! I have just had a nice, long Christmas vacation, and it is amazing how nice everything seems when one is rested. Last year about this time I did a 20 Questions post, made up as a new style of post for me because my brain was just about the consistency of luke-warm soup and I was out of oomph for writing entertaining words. Now, a year later, I think I am slowly starting to recover my…
The once-a-year bounty of pears this year has been particularly bountiful. Here are some of them, getting ready to be made into pearsauce.
Hello, whoever’s out there. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put up a proper post. This spring, and the lead-up to this spring, has been rather a lot. And there’s a good chance there will be another long gap between this post and whatever goes up after it. To paint a general picture, I will just say that between last November and now I have: 1) Surmounted the hurdles of two very large projects, one for work and…