Birmingham Blues

Okay, I know it’s terribly expensive to hire actual human proofreaders, but I bet the American Family Association is wishing it had made the investment after this snafu. It seems some right-wing sites use Auto-Correct on Associated Press articles to weed out language they find unacceptable. I wonder what the AP thinks about [...]

I promise this isn’t going to turn into a gardening blog — well, not exclusively — but I do want to link to this interesting piece on attracting European honey bees, which includes a recipe that’s supposed to bring the little suckers running…er, flying to pollinate all those flowers that make yummy fruits and vegetables.
Have [...]

…when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands. The WTF story for the day (well, aside from this week’s Doctor Who cliffhanger *spoiler alert*) is this one from Loretta Nall. There is a move underway in Alabama to outlaw a particular type of salvia, salvia divinorum, which is apparently a hallucinogen.
Deborah [...]

This one’s for Kyle:

Dear Husband has already sampled it, and he pronounced it very good. It doesn’t look purple, and it doesn’t look like liver. It looks yummy! Kyle, I hope you beat back the onslaught of green worms and have a bumper crop.

If you’re looking for a fun (and affordable) activity this evening, head to Canterbury United Methodist Church at 7 pm for The World Goes ‘Round, presented by members of the CenterStage Rising Stars ensemble. This group of eight very talented young people puts on a great show, and even more impressive, they have done [...]

I spent an hour or two in the garden this morning, taking care of the tomatoes. The tomato patch was a mess, branches hanging on the ground and lots of extraneous foliage. Now it looks like something out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, with the plants rising out of long-overgrown baskets and clinging to [...]

Or something like that. I don’t have the energy to look up the lyrics. And most of y’all are probably too young to remember that song anyway.
It’s hot here. Duh. June in Alabama. The tomatoes are coming along. I missed the first ripe ones, but nephew Zach, who was [...]

Beach pictures:

Beach and dunes from the top of the boardwalk

A blurry picture of the Gulf (sorry about that — it’s hard to tell how the pictures look when I’m outside)

Our house (or the house we rented for the week anyway — we haven’t yet traveled to the alternate universe where we could afford a beach [...]

Okay, I am totally taking advantage of the power of Glamour/Society Blog access to share a petty rant. Here goes:
DD is still in the wonderful and all-too-brief “I love my new driver’s license! Got any errands you need run?” phase. Last week at Target she grabbed Energizer rechargeable batteries instead of the regular kind, [...]

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