Safe as Bunny Milk

It’s a glorious day here on Ceti Alpha V: quite a few clouds, about 75 °F in the shade with a nice strong breeze. No exploding drug labs or hot rod truck tuning going on today, no car stereo thumping, just the ringing in my ears and the wind in the trees. Nobody’s bugging me [...]

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Something peculiar is going on: I just spontaneously drove to Albuquerque and back (260 miles) to buy a pair of shoes! I don’t DO things like that, but what a wild end to an amazing day. It started uncharacteristically enough with my enjoying running errands in the morning. The combination of warm sun and cool [...]

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There they were, little tan buggers not half grown, running up and down the dirt road with their tongues hanging out. Pit bulls! I’d just come back from my walk and found my friend J. at the mailbox. He’s a few years older than I am, lives up a nearby canyon in a home-made house. [...]

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There was a time when I had a tabbed folder of bookmarks set to open 15 political blogs at once in my browser. Hah! What an absurdity that seems now. I still have one such blog in my News folder, and I visit others now and then, of course, by following Twitter links and other [...]

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First I got too close to the Great Yowling. This is never a good way to start your day. I can be such a gentle, newfound peaceful soul. No, really. It comes with practice, and I have the yowling to thank for motivation. Sometimes it expands suddenly from beyond the mountains like the flash of [...]

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By most accounts, today was a fine April day. Here in Taos, the wind blew fiercely and we got up to 70° F. I opened all the doors and windows–that’s not saying much in an old adobe–and let the place air out. I’m an open windows kinda guy, anyway. At a delightful blog written by [...]

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Okay, it’s really spring, see? I even erected the patio umbrella and tidied up out back. It’s not your fancy magazine sort of outdoor living space, but it’ll do. I sat out here today until the umbrella tried to fly away and take the table with it. The forecast for Monday afternoon calls for 50 [...]

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Last night I aimed a flashlight out the kitchen window at 2:00 a.m. to see if it was snowing yet. It wasn’t, but I was surprised to see a medium-sized raccoon staring back at me from the tall platform feeder I’d made for the birds. He (?) was licking those sunflower seeds up with his tongue as fast as he could and chewing them up husks and all, as far as I could tell, having a high old time.

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