Travels and teens
posted 5 months ago | 1 comment
Well, if anyone has noticed the new photographs that have shown up, they would see that DD2 and I have been traveling. She is a high school junior and we are 'looking at colleges'.
Why she had to 'look' at colleges that are as far away as possibl...
Why she had to 'look' at colleges that are as far away as possibl...
Road trips
posted 6 months ago | 2 comments
I was going to write about a drive I took yesterday, to Salt Lake City and back (about 500 miles round trip) with daughter no. 2 and friend. We went there to visit daughter no. 1, who is in college there. (We had a very nice visit, too). But then ...
Spring teasers
posted 7 months ago | 1 comment
Every year we get a 'warm' spell in February. The snow (mostly) melts - leaving huge piles of slush, mud and potholes. Some brave little blades of grass or spikes of iris poke up higher, and green up a bit. And the birds start showing up in greate...
Digging out
posted 8 months ago | 0 comments
It has been snowing, off and on (mostly on) since the year began. After a second six inches fell last night - on top of the 15 inches that had fallen previously - school opening was set back two hours to allow time for the roads to be cleared - or...
Caucusing in Nevada
posted 8 months ago | 0 comments
Well, it is over. At least, almost so! The barrage of phone calls, mail, doorknob hangers and visits from politicians and their sisters, wives, mothers and husbands is done - for now at least.
This morning, Nevada held our presidential caucuses. M...
This morning, Nevada held our presidential caucuses. M...
I have resolved to consider a new hobby....
posted 10 months ago, updated 4 minutes later | 1 comment
When I was in third grade, I got glasses. Up until that point, I thought that the way I saw things, was the way everyone saw things. My mother yelled at me a bit: 'why didn't you tell me you couldn't see!'
But I didn't know I couldn't see! I thou...
But I didn't know I couldn't see! I thou...
Now it is autumn and winter approaches
posted 11 months ago | 1 comment
Now we are scraping ice off our windshields in the morning, and most of the trees have lost their leaves. So many people think that 'Las Vegas' epitomizes Nevada! But this is a big, big state, and Lost Wages is down in the furthermost southern tip...
What is it like in Nevada?
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 14 hours later | 0 comments
Someone recently asked me what it was like in Nevada. Well, that's a hard question to answer briefly, because Nevada is a very varied place.
When most people hear that we live in 'Nevada', they think of Las Vegas. Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert...
When most people hear that we live in 'Nevada', they think of Las Vegas. Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert...
An outing
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
We have company. My sister in law, and her husband are visiting from Israel, and my husband's daughter from his first (shall we say, short lived and generally disastrous?) marriage is here as well. For the record, I like all of these people, and I...
It is oddly quieter -
posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
I don't think I'm ready for this. Despite probably two year's of 'preparation' to send daughter no. 1 off to college, the fact that she is actually THERE (rather than HERE) has yet to sink in.
She is the quietest of the three girls. You wouldn't ...
She is the quietest of the three girls. You wouldn't ...
