Mister and I have been battling Marvin. Marvin is the name of our pool sweeper, and we love that little motorized rover because he generally does a great job of keeping the bottom of the pool clean. …
Why, Indeed?
Winter is a word we throw about here in L.A. as we might throw about the words grits or firefly. We know these things exist, but they’re not relative to our Los Angeles experience and we’re not likely…
Until We Meet Again
Another Olympics Games, closed. I relished these winter sports, as I do every 4 years. Not only do I admire watching the athletes display their skills (skills they’ve honed for-practically-ever), I also love-love-love the sportsmanship. For though examples…
Bees! The Incredible Shrinking Hive
The bee dude tried to tell me, but I still had doubts. He said winter would lead to shrinking of the hive. What winter? We haven’t had one, so how could the hive possibly shrink? I went…
Bees! – Update
Mister brought home this photo of the bees we’ve been monitoring. It turns out they are experiencing a winter thinning of the hive, just like the farmers market bee keeper said they would. He also told me…
Bad Things Come In Threes
So. Sunday. I woke to learn that Punxsutawney Phil had indeed seen his little rodent shadow, and that means – for “Phil-ievers” at least – six more weeks of winter. As I live in sunny southern California,…
There’s More to This Day Than Football…
As most of America (and the world) may know, there’s a big-ass football game going down today. (I’ll be wearing blue and orange, by the way.) But there’s more to this day than football, y’all. It’s Groundhog…
Snuggle Weather
Here in California, we’re not hurting on the weather front. I know some folks are going through unimaginable cold these days, and I don’t know how to respond to that. I’ve experienced ugly-cold before, but only in short…
Hollyweird
I feel for all of you who are under the heavy thumb of ugly winter weather. And I send you prayers. I also hate to tell you how fantastic our weather is, here in Los Angeles. I’ve…