Exile in Portales

The view from the study window a few minutes ago: Which brings to mind this wonderful old tune: They don't make 'em like ...

So sang Dinah Washington (the tune's below) and she was RIGHT.  We're talking about our WX, of course.  Here's what we look lik...

The weekend wasn't the best o' times here at  El Casa Inmóvil De Pennington , but it was far from the worst.  Saturday was almost a...

Happy Days are here again... Yep, we're back to what passes for normal after last week's spate of sub-freezing temps.  We took...

... are playing with much less than a full deck: And we're glad we're not in Buffalo* , where some areas got six feet... yes, s...

From the study window at 1045 hrs: I'm SO not ready for this: snow for the second time in the last three days.  The damned leav...

The view from the study window at this moment... I don't remember which cartoon character uttered the famous "What a revoltin...

Me?  I'd be praying to EVERY known Deity At Hand and mebbe even making up a few.  Watching this made my knees all watery. In other...

I've been up since 0330 hrs this morning, which is my own stupid fault, what with retiring at very early hour o' 2130 hrs last even...

As in "I don't have much today."  But there's this lil blurb I got from Amazon the other day... That's a piece-p...

The view from the study window this morning... And, for comparison's sake, last July... Fog in an arid climate.  Who'd a ...

So, there I was... going through the overnight mail, a piece-part o' same bein' a missive from Amazon concerning new music releases...

... which would be the WX.  Here's what we look like at the moment: You'll note there's a severe thunderstorm watch in the...

... and I'm no exception.  I prolly do it too much, actually, but weather fascinates me.  Here's what we looked like when I opened ...

I find this amusing... not funny, just amusing.  Given our gub'mint's track record on the various and sundry "wars" d...

Currently: The picture is wrong, coz it's raining as we speak (note the thumbnail radar picture).  I doubt if the AC will run much...

Occasional Reader and Constant Correspondent Lin sends this along... I met an older woman at a bar last night. She l...

It's not even 0900 hrs and it's rather warm (uncharacteristically humid, too) already.   And it looks like the next couple o' d...

Sorry.  I just couldn't help it.  But we MIGHT take our coffee on the verandah this morning.

It takes a lot o' doin' to out-Stone the Stones but Johnny pulled it off... But it's alright, in fact it's a gas Yea, ...