Monthly Archives: April 2025

noun good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries When Andy came out for dinner the other night he said he had fallen when he got out of the chair. He wasn’t hurt, but we were wondering how to avoid … Continue reading →

When I published yesterday’s post everything looked fine on my desktop, but when I looked later on my iPad this is what the pictures looked like: Arghh! I have no idea why why there was a difference. I took the … Continue reading →

Kaitlin sent me these pictures of Tempi and Zoe yesterday. They must take after their grandmother…I usually take an afternoon nap too. What about you? April 28, 2025

An English language teacher says to his student. “English can be a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.” It’s the pronunciation that makes English so hard. Hurray for phonetic languages like Spanish. April 27, 2025

Andy always wanted a solar-powered atomic wristwatch so he bought one in 2008. (Click on the picture for higher resolution.) It worked fine until it fell off a couple of weeks ago. We looked at it and even though the … Continue reading →

April 25, 2025

We had forgotten about them but the Senior Center had a vaccine clinic Tuesday for Covid and other diseases. We made an appointment with our local pharmacy, because they already had our data and it was simpler. But bless the … Continue reading →

Click on the picture to see the video, and turn on the sound to hear. I love that ending. April 23, 2025

I don’t know why some people couldn’t see the weather forecast for last Saturday: It predicted snow, and sure enough Andy didn’t go up to the land that day. Sunday he went to the mesa across from ours and took … Continue reading →

I’ve been taking a semi-vacation from Spanish. I’ve been streaming videos with English, not Spanish, subtitles, but I still try spend a few minutes each day doing a vocabulary exercise on Duolingo. For instance: According to Duolingo, by yesterday I … Continue reading →