Monthly Archives: May 2020

Researchers are investigating whether dogs can detect COVID-19 in people. Lets hope the idea works…it would be a fast way of testing for it. May 21, 2020

As we expected, the county extension didn’t phone back…we did send an email, including a picture, last night just in case someone is working from home. I looked up moths that are harmful to fruit trees. The codling moth was … Continue reading →

Things were looking encouraging last week. One of the squash had blossoms. The lilacs were starting to come out. And the fruit trees were blossoming. But when Andy went up Sunday moths were swarming the fruit trees. Andy didn’t take … Continue reading →

I didn’t know this before Tempi told us, but “city of the woods” was Thoreau’s description of Carlisle, Massachusetts…and the name is still apt. Here are some pictures that Kaitlin and Torben just sent. The first one, of course, is … Continue reading →

When I was going through some old papers I came across this excerpt: The Stress-hardy Personality Psychologist Suzanne Kobasa and her colleagues studied people in high-stress occupations and looked for traits distinguishing the ones resistant to stress. The psychologists found … Continue reading →

No problem with social distancing yesterday because the visitors didn’t stay for lunch. (I had been concerned about them sitting around the picnic table.) Unfortunately one of the fellows started feeling dizzy walking back from the battery house, so they … Continue reading →

Kaitlin sent these pictures of their crabapple blossoms: She also wrote, And we have a tornado watch! What??? That sucks — I thought they had left that problem when they moved from the Midwest. The Boston Globe says, Meteorologists expect … Continue reading →

Our neighbors (both male) downstairs by the stairs are often sitting on their porch when Andy comes home, and they’re interested to hear what he has done that day. Last week one of them asked if he could follow Andy … Continue reading →

This isn’t the post I was planning to write today, but I got distracted while doing a bit of organizing. I found this game I bought a couple of years ago to have fun improving my perceptual speed. Spot it … Continue reading →

They put 85-year-old Dame Judi Dench on the June cover. That warms my heart. May 12, 2020