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Alison Blogs HereSemi-Dangerous When Thinking
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Down here, we have a lot of intersections where the traffic lights are on sensors rather than timers. What this means is that in one or more directions, the light will stay red until it senses a car waiting for the green. In theory, this is a pretty good idea. In practice, though, it depends [...]
After a lazy morning (except for the hour long walk to get bagels. . .I walked there, called hubby to pick me and the bagels up!) of reading Sunday papers, having coffee and bagels, and taking Carolyn out for gym sneakers (with a stop at the animal rescue adoption area. . .AWWWKITTENSANDPUPPIES!) we finally managed [...]
I drove up to Monmouth Feed Co. because they advertised a big sale on pond supplies, and it’s time to start thinking of covering the pond to keep falling leaves out, and giving the fish some protection for the winter. I also needed some more filter media, and just wanted to check the place out. [...]
We’ve been setting the alarm clocks earlier and earlier each day, which has made this weekend far less of a last hurrah than something we’re all dragging through like zombies. This morning, though, we took advantage of being up early anyway and drove out to Ortley Beach. We parked the car and watched the sun [...]
Yesterday we drove up Route 9 to check out Insectropolis. It’s a bug museum that was started by an extermination company, of all things. Love/hate relationship with bugs, I suppose. Anyway, it wasn’t huge, but there was a lot of stuff to see. The collections of beetles, arachnids, moths, butterflies, and such, were pretty varied [...]
We went to a restaurant last night for my birthday, and in the ladies’ room, I saw this truly horrid piece of art that I need to share with you all: It’s. . .Dutch midgets?? I mean, they’re proportioned like children, the faces have those big eyes and tiny noses. . .first thought is children, [...]
I forgot to mention in yesterday’s entry. . .you see, I’d gotten to the part where I was supposed to put the grommets into the vests for the RenFaire costumes. I hoped against hope that the grommets and grommet tool I’d gotten would work, despite the fact that they came from the craft store and [...]
My friend Gayle, whose brother is a birder, got me the information a while back about the bird whose song I found so entertaining. I thought it was multiple birds, but it turns out that it was a Carolina Wren with a very full tummy. These are tiny, adorable little brown feathered birds with a [...]
The vegetable garden has pretty much been a bust, first garden here, horrible weather, not much dedication to gardening on my part, but we’ve had a few interesting sights. This was supposed to be zucchini. As soon as it started to grow like a cucumber vine instead of a zucchini bush, I knew we had [...]
When we were living up North, one of the things that drove us nuts was drivers jumping the light to turn left. This is patently dangerous, especially when done by older drivers in large cars who take the entire light change to cut you off. They jump the light. . .very. . .slow. . .ly. [...]
