Author Archives: Jean

We were at Cornell University for about 8 1/2 years — over fifty years ago. And I still remember the dogs and the squirrels. The dogs were always hopeful, but the squirrels always won. They would often wait until the … Continue reading →

August 22, 2026

Cockroaches have reputaton for being resilient. They’ve been on earth about 320 million years, 100 million years before the dinosaurs. And they’ve survived multiple mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. It’s hard … Continue reading →

It is really hard to get help up on the land because it’s such a long drive, part of it on bumpy dirt roads. So you can imagine how we felt when Andy discovered this broken (double pane) window. We … Continue reading →

Do you write in cursive very much? I do — almost every day. I’ve read we’re more apt to remember things if we write them rather than type them, and it seems to work for me. Do you think kids … Continue reading →

Yesterday Angus wrote, Outside the golf club we meet our Edinburgh solicitor. I say he’s our solicitor but the firm of lawyers we’ve used forever has been taken over and amalgamated into a large international ‘practice’ as their Scottish outpost. … Continue reading →

than Rat. But that’s easy for me to say because I no longer travel. 🙂 August 17, 2026

He wrote in yesterday’s post, The BBC breakfast bulletin informs us that there is confusion over claims that Washington wants to annex the Strait of Hormuz and have it become ‘American territory’. Is this official policy or just a passing … Continue reading →

From Angus in Scotland: Another beautiful, but chill, start to the day here in Scotland. It might get to 20C this afternoon. By contrast London is expecting their fifth heat wave of the year and a high of 35C . … Continue reading →

Mostly Justo y Franco aren’t my favorite, but I thought this one was funny. The fellow is saying, We ran out of little parasols, so I added sunscreen to them. These are all about poor Charlie Brown: August 14, 2026