NEWS Chafer beetle wreaks havoc on Rochester back yard Mandy and Bob Harrison survey the chafer beetle damage in the back yar...

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It took the last post to make me realize how much of this blog is about "old stuff". It just is. Blogs are supposed ...

OK, so I've wanted to write about this for a long time. Then I'd say, wait a minute, what do you know about it? Then I'd co...

Mia cuddling up in her new blanket. This was a rush job - I did it in 2 1/2 days! Grandma's blanket magic seems to cross the specie...

  A new kitten in the family is a very big event around here. Mia is my new grandcat, kitty of my daughter's family. Not long ago ...

I have never been able to cook eggplant. My mother knew. She fried it, in the way people fried things then, in a lot of hot...

This was one of those late-night, treasure-trove finds that kind of made my head spin. It was a site of dozens and dozens of old (I...