It’s pretty safe to assume that businesses and entrepreneurs are finally coming out of their COVID cubby holes. For the past two weeks or so I’ve been INUNDATED with clients, old and new! Five new (two potentially long term) in the past week alone. WHEE! Potential clients are coming to me from Upwork even …
New Clients Galore! and… Getting Excited About NZ Trip! Read More »
After re-reading some of the notes Alpha wrote, I got to wondering whatever happened to those”writing gems” she kept that I wrote while I was her student. Sure would love to re-read them to see what she saw in them, but I don’t suppose that will ever be possible.I don’t think she sent them to …
“Yo ho ho and a bottle of — uh oh, too much rum! The cap’n wrecked the ship!” My aquarium shipwreck ornament arrived last night. I love it a lot! It arrived at about 6:30, so I brought the box in and unboxed it. Then I removed a couple of existing ornaments. …
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Aquarium Shipwreck — Plus! DeForest Kelley’s Thunderbird Read More »
New shoes trip me up. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the same thing, but almost every time I buy a new pair of shoes, I spend the first week or so stumbling and tripping in them until the front of the soles wear down enough to adapt to my footfalls. Nancy …
New Shoes Trip Me Up — I Woke up Laughing about It! Read More »
I’m with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” crowd. So much so that I’ve been using my mother’s kitchen blender for at least 25 years, and she used it for probably a good thirty years before I got it, so it’s a true relic. Her Hamilton Beach has been used, dirtied, and …
Swapped out my summertime backyard campsite for a winterized version this week. I plan to keep sleeping outside for as long as possible It was a foregone conclusion that I was going to enjoy sleeping outside; I just didn’t know how enjoyable it would be, now that I’m 72-going-on-73 (in March 2024). So, …
It rained last night (finally!) and I got to enjoy the ecstacy of sleeping in a tent with a tarp over it so I could enjoy it. T’was HEAVEN ON EARTH! It will be a long time before I get to experience this again, looks like. We’re in a drought here in the Pacific …
My plecos will be going to Aquarium Paradise in Lakewood this week and next. It’s time. I have close to 100 of them by now, I think! Lisa and I rode our bikes from Orting to South Prairie today. For Lisa, it was her first bike trip in nearly two years, so she loved …
My Plecos Are Going to Aquarium Paradise in Lakewood … Biking, EVER NEW, and More Read More »
The last of my nine pet rats has died. It has felt lonely in my den the past two days, but it was time, and expected. More than three years ago now, I adopted nine female rats — two moms and their babies –to keep them from being taken to a pet store to be …
Headline image of Lisa Twining by Kris M Smith. All rights reserved. THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE COURTESY OF LISA TWINING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! Here are some of the photos Lisa Twining took yesterday at Ruby Beach and just outside the Hoh Rainforest. Me on the path to Ruby Beach July 6 2023 …
Lisa Twining’s Best Images from Ruby Beach and Hoh Read More »
