Monthly Archives: March 2015

The recent posts here and at Nick’s site about not worrying about what other people think of us reminds me of Don Miguel Ruiz’s book, The Four Agreements — a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: Be Impeccable With Your Word: … Continue reading →

We hear a lot about how pets are good for our health, but this article shows that they can interfere with our reading. I’m wondering if Rummuser ever has this problem? March 10, 2015  

I’m mourning a loss right now, and I don’t quite agree with Epictetus. We will not be troubled at any loss, but will say to ourselves on such an occasion: “I have lost nothing that belongs to me; it was … Continue reading →

More slithering today. Again Andy was going only 3-4 miles per hour. If he had gone faster he wouldn’t have rolled down a hillside, but he could have gone into the ditch on the right. And the truck is still … Continue reading →

We usually have only one mud season a year, but with all the freezing and thawing since January, we’re now on our third. Hopefully it will be our last for the year, because they really wreak havoc on the roads. … Continue reading →

Maggie’s husband was very sick and slipping in and out of consciousness. Maggie waited on him and kept his bedside throughout his sickness. One day, when her husband had regained consciousness, he beckoned for Maggie to come close to him … Continue reading →

Epictetus would no doubt have rejected Baudelaire’s suggestion to always be intoxicated, to never be sober. Baudelaire was trying to avoid being broken down by life, by being “one of the tortured slaves of Time.” Epictetus, of course, spent his … Continue reading →

I laughed out loud when I read this quote by Baudelaire yesterday. You must always be intoxicated. That sums it all up: it’s the only question. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time which breaks your back … Continue reading →

Andy gnawed at the truck-in-the-ditch problem yesterday. Even with a winch on the Jeep it’s easier to pull a Jeep out of a ditch with the truck than to pull a truck and snowplow out of a ditch with the … Continue reading →

Andy didn’t do much on the truck yesterday, because it was the first of the month and he had to download the data from his temperature recorders. His thirteen loggers record the temperatures in the attic, well house, shed, battery … Continue reading →