Circus Harmony

Scenes from a weekend show: Circus Harmony at the City Museum, Saturday, 8 January 2022.

Recent funnies

Several recent funnies continue to give me mirth.

An attic tale

Join me for a strange story . . . . The offending bottle —

So long

Until next year . . . . Christmas decorations now sleep in tubs in the basement. Here’s one last look from Wednesday night: And from November and December:

Cycling

Now I so want to go back to England . . . . And these photos!! Such works of art, they are.

#TBT: Letter to the editor

Twenty-five years ago this week, the Lee’s Summit Journal published a letter to the editor from a late 30s doctoral student. My teacher and mentor and model, Sandra Simpkins, had died of cancer about a month earlier. Here’s that letter: Thank you to the Midwest Genealogy Center of the Mid-Continent Public Library system for having

Beethoven

Let’s start the new year off right! This article from 2020, the year we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ( a celebratory year cut short by COVID-19), is worth a read and then a listen:

In the kitchen

Recent kitchen successes:

Home improvements

I cleaned the fridge on New Year’s Eve. The fridge needed it. But I’m also mindful of various home improvements in 2021. At various times this year, I added a woodpecker feeder, a pellet smoker, a brick outline of the planting beds, a porch gnome, and some new-to-me vases. The big expenditures were a new

Christmas II

Today is the Second Sunday of Christmastide. My home is bedecked still in Christmas: And here are some positive thoughts for the end of the season of Christmas and the beginning of this new year: