What have I been doing for the past few days? Pop-up Cards – probably twenty of them. Most become presents for the kids of friends and relatives. I definitely am getting…

I could not search my Gmail on my iPhone using my Mail app. I had to go to my desktop iMac to do that. Then last week I added Google’s Gmail app. Duh – there it was…

Let’s see. How did it come about that for the past two weeks I have been buying, and consuming, lots of baby bok choy? Could it be that I am connected genetically somehow to baby bok choy? Could it be that I have an atavistic gustatory connection to my childhood memories of drinking (and eating) soup containing bok choy in Chinese restaurants? Could it be that…

Starting four days ago, each time I opened the kitchen cabinet where our dishes sit, I noticed what looked like animal droppings or bits of spices on the top plates.

The small scissors in the cup on my desk never got much use. Then last week, when I could not find my regular scissors for cutting popup pictures, I deigned to use…

Last week my wife noticed that the backyard sprinkler valves were leaking. Don’t tell anyone, but I had noticed that fact months ago. After replacing the valve diaphragms with no success, I bought a new pair of valves. I cut off the old valves and put on the new ones. Yikes! The sprinklers no longer leaked, but they would not…

Yes. I finally saw yellow ink drain from the blocked print head. Here I am waiting for the picture of Tarzan to print out, to see if my yellow ink will run freely. Here comes the paper now – it printed fine! I’m now removing my rubber gloves. I’ll have to…

I needed to make a map showing the trees and shrubs on both sides of a trail at TreePeople. I had a couple problems with the map…

I have always had a small to medium-sized, homemade waterfall with a pond in the backyard. It was just a pile of cement blocks, stones and rocks, set up on a plastic tarp, with the water from the pond pumped to the top of the rock formation and back into the pond.

For years I have been placing my DVDs into small DVD envelopes and inserting them in folded cardstock so they would not move around before putting them into greeting card envelopes and mailing them. The weight consistently was more than…