Tag: random musing
member name: Ruth MacGill
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December 18, 2009 09:50 PM EST --
After three nice heavy rains last week and several sunny days, you would think it is spring here in the foothills of San Diego. All the bare hillsides are now green. There was a space around our house . . .
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October 10, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
My new Dell computer is a gem, gleaming silver and blue on the bench before me. It seems to be telling me, "Ok, Hotshot, Let’s have at it and unload some old stories and new ideas before that . . .
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November 29, 2009 04:53 PM EST --
The weatherman warned us a few days ago that we had a 20% chance of rain way down here on the Mexican border in San Diego County. n Friday I tried to make sure that everything we wanted to keep . . .
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December 03, 2009 06:46 AM EST --
Here I am again, wide-awake at 1:30 in the morning after having four solid hours of sound sleep. It was the very vivid and happy dream that I was having that woke me up, but it was probably just . . .
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December 24, 2006 01:54 AM EST --
What Would Tickle a Terrorist?
By that, I mean how would you make an evil-intentioned person chuckle, at something other than torturing their enemies? Surely these stern, self-righteous people . . .
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April 29, 2009 08:44 PM EDT --
What is the difference between 'epidemic' and 'pandemic'?
According to my Webster New Explorer Large Print Dictionary, epidemic means affecting many people at one time, and it doesn't . . .
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December 05, 2009 06:47 AM EST --
I take it all back! I take back all the whining and complaining in my last post. Well, most of it. I was in a bad mood because someone who considers himself and his choice of words, a cut above the . . .
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December 16, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
A Storm Is Coming In
I meant to wait two days before I fired off another article. I don’t want to ‘run you off’ with too much trivial drivel, and that is what this is going . . .
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January 13, 2007 12:45 PM EST --
Weather, or Whether I Should Get Out of Bed Today
We have a ‘front’ upon us that I wish would become a ‘back’ sooner than later. I am always preaching about ‘always . . .
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February 17, 2007 11:20 AM EST --
My Garbage Disappointed the Coyotes, A Book Review, Etc.
Yesterday I spent all day writing for Gather and listening to a book on tape. I failed to take my bag of garage to the dumpster . . .
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February 27, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
Decisions, Decisions!
I'm off to a good start this morning. I took my pills, fed Chatterbox, my sick old female cat, cleaned the cat boxes, filled my 7-day pill boxes - one for morning pills and . . .
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September 02, 2009 03:39 AM EDT --
September 1 st again. I have lots to remember that happened during the last part of August and the first week in September. Fifty-eight years ago today I had my last child – a beautiful . . .
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April 03, 2009 02:23 AM EDT --
Yesterday I had a lot of problems to solve. My pickup was sick. Sunny, a yellow striped kitten we actually paid $5 for at the feed about six months ago has suddenly . . .
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November 30, 2009 10:13 AM EST --
For the last few days a picture of a man with long brown hair worn a la Jesus Christ has been taking up space on that area of my computer I have to scroll down over to get to where I can read and . . .
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December 05, 2006 12:04 PM EST --
Early Morning Walkabout in a Pickup Truck
It isn’t cold this morning and the wind is calm, so my wayward dog, Rocky, did not choose to come in the trailer after two hours of running loose . . .
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January 11, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
Breathing in the Morning
The air this morning is brisk and refreshing, I keep breathing deeply of the scents of the sagebrush mixed a little bit with the familiar and nostalgic odors . . .
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November 22, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
Slowing Down in the Fast Lane, or Down the River and Over the Falls
This is one of those days I feel as if I am reclining in my Lazyboy in the middle of a freeway, or another analogy would be that . . .
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February 12, 2007 12:05 PM EST --
Old Styles and a Movie
My daughter Jane and I get TV reception through Dish Network, and have signed up for all offers, except Cinemax. We get an awful lot of movies or I should say we get . . .
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November 17, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
A little Random Musing - 11/17/2007
Good morning! It is 6:15 as I start writing, and the sun is about to come over the eastern horizon. I have done my chores, taken my pills, and I’m ready to . . .
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December 27, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Writing About Writing
About an hour ago, at 4 A.M., I woke up with a soft furry body nestled on my shoulder and a contented purring in my ear. It was my white cat Forrest, the most cuddly of all my . . .
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