A Celebration of Mundanity

Years ago, when my family purchased one of our first computers, we finally bought one that had a dot matrix printer. I do not recall the specific make or model, but I think my brothers and I all had…

Although it was a brisk day, we needed to get out of the house. So we headed over to the club's archery range. It's a new bow for Mark. He recently retrieved his old bow from home which he bought in…

A friend was talking about her book club the other day. How it was her month to host the group, how it was her book that was read for this meeting and how she did not read the book :) It has me and…

On one of our trips to California, I took a cooking class with a friend of mine at Draeger's Cooking School in San Mateo. We both love to cook and adore kitchen gadgetry, so this proved to be an…

An extra special package of three varieties of silly putty arrived in the mail today from Putty World: black magnetic putty, heat sensitive putty that changes color with temperature and glow in the…

Well, that is it for collecting trips this season. With the much cooler weather and the other problems with the traps, I don't expect there to be much to prepare from the samples gathered. Which is a…

With all this chilly weather, I'm compelled to make warm and satisfying comfort foods. Tonight I made the best bread pudding. I would occasionally order variations of this dessert from favorite…

What a day. Attempted to get out the door early, get a jump start on the two and one half hour drive up to the Erie site, only to be faced with multiple delays. All in the collecting party were…

Going from sitting quaintly and chatting with Mark's mom, working on a clownfish visual echo jigsaw puzzle while he worked on her car, to this. The gun. And me shooting at a target: ...in one day.…

I picked up a couple interesting and useful reference books. They are not necessarily books to curl up with on a cozy chair, but ones that I can turn to for relevant information regarding aspects of…