The car, it is not liking to start in the cold this year. Has this December gotten a lot colder, or is my car trying to tell me something? I know someday I have to replace it, but that sounds like a lot of work and money. . . really, is 20 degrees that cold? Hopefully it will be a bit warmer when the plow comes for the whole 2 inches of snow that ( Read more... )

Thanks to Cute Overload pointing me to National Geographic, I now have some useless information to share at holiday parties. Who wants to know an interesting fact or two about Octopuses? I think it might even be dinner appropriate subject matter! If you too want to study up on trivial information, take a gander ( Read more... )

Tonight was the first night I got to drive through a light snow flurry since last winter. Such a beautiful part of winter. I may love summer, but I do enjoy the still cold whiteness of a snowy night. The cold is harder to get used to though. I think the light dusting is done for tonight, but I'll be sleeping soon anyway and it would be wasted on my ( Read more... )

Went "home" to NJ this weekend. I think it was the first time in about 2 yrs. I had a great time catching up with the girls, and digging up old photo albums. Which of course, always makes me wonder about who I am right now. Can't really say that I have an answer for that, but I'm ok with that. Every now and then you just have to take some time to ( Read more... )

I mean the degrees, not the decade or the age.

It was beautiful today!! Definitely made me feel like I could "dance my cares away"!
I discovered the thing to make a summertime feeling sunny day better. Orange leaves.
Ahh, nature in perfection.

never mind about those polar icecaps.

I found a cute little flyer in the back room at work explaining all the kinds of paper that are recyclable in MA. I've always been a recycler and was really impressed to find that pretty much any kind of paper I use at home or at work is EASILY recyclable. I was always pulling out staples and windows from the window envelopes, turns out, that's not ( Read more... )

Your planes are very loud, confuse people I am trying to talk on the phone with and make my cat all puffy ( Read more... )

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If you already support a public option for health insurance, you may not need to watch this.

If you don't, please think about what it means to be left out in the cold just because you don't fit a companies "appetite".

Save The Sound Habitat Restoration

Calling All Volunteers!

Save the Sound is seeking up to 30 volunteers for an upcoming habitat restoration project in Rocky Neck State Park, located in Niantic, CT.

From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., on Friday, September 11th, volunteers will help with a native dune grass transplanting effort at the mouth of ( Read more... )

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