I just finished up another crystal puller, this one using belts to grip the ( Read more... )

When we arrived home after three months, one of the first things we noticed was a sickly sweet smell in the house. Our house sitters had one of those 1.5 volt battery powered air freshners (Glade) sitting behind one of the chairs. I immediatly took it out of the house and disposed of it. I couldn't let it go though without taking a look inside ( Read more... )

Subject: Book List ( Read more... )

I was thinking about an incident in my past this morning as I lay awake at 4:00 AM ( Read more... )

We drove down past Punta Gorda on our way to the Fort Myers area here in Florida. The sight of hundreds and hundreds of temporary trailers was impressive. Also stuck in my mind are the great piles of debris bulldozed out of the trailer parks. Striking were the light standards, one after another bent over at a 30 degree angle, failing about 3/5ths ( Read more... )

Right time, Right place ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we had a tour of the Ortona Lock on the Caloosahatchee River east ( Read more... )

Growing up, I felt geographically limited because on one side of me was interior Maine, mostly woods at that time and on the other side was the Atlantic Ocean with the straight-line landfall either Europe or Africa. My only options for travel were Rt 1 northeast or southwest. I would stand on the shore and dream about travelling away from our ( Read more... )

Just reading through Natural Philosophy, the revised edition embracing THE ( Read more... )

I only have a couple of more days in the beauteous white Northeast and then we are headed for Florida again. Once more, the procrastinators couldn't find their 'roundtuits' and have delayed receiving their samples of sapphire that I've been trying to give away for two years now ( Read more... )