Author Archives: Les
A Trip Down Memory Lane …
September 9, 2022 ~ Friday (night/it’s raining and now blissfully COOL!) Hello Autumn! While this summer was brutal (in so many ways/and notice the PAST tense) … I’m not sure I’m quite ready for Fall. At least not in ONE … Continue reading
Time is Fleeting …
September 4, 2022 ~ Sunday (late night/Monday early morning … 95° today though blissfully cool in the house now – finally/for once!) It’s after midnight … I just turned off my window a/c unit but the three fans are still … Continue reading
Gadzooks … it’s Bazooka!
It all started the night of my last blog post. It was late and my sweet tooth was wide awake. I’m not much of a “sweets” person but a hot, gooey, melty chocolate chip cookie from the oven sounded pretty … Continue reading
Things Have Been Heating Up …
August 18, 2022 ~ Thursday (night … 11pm … a lovely 68°) It’s one of those balmy nights that usually don’t happen in this area. Usually, in the summer, the nights turn cool once the sun goes down. We are … Continue reading
The Honeymoon …
August 9, 2022 ~ Tuesday afternoon (hiding out in the dining room with the window a/c cranked up as it’s a sunny and roasty 95° outside … hotter tomorrow!) I’m still organizing. Filing. Sorting. Purging. Setting things aside to “look … Continue reading
When Nothing is Everything …
August 5, 2022 ~ Friday morning (already too hot at 93° at 10:30 am … ) It’s my first extended summer in CO in ten years … and, to put it mildly, there’s been a LOT to contend with. The … Continue reading
The Value of …
July 17, 2022 ~ Sunday afternoon (currently 85° inside the house/99° outside … another scorcher!) My island friends are probably shaking their heads at me … muttering “be careful what you wish for” and all that. I wanted more heat … Continue reading
This and That … Fireworks, Freedom, and Feeling Good
July 6, 2022 ~ Wednesday afternoon (82 lovely degrees/sun with puffy clouds) I’ve started this post in my head half a dozen times in the last two weeks. One day it was about something … the next day it was … Continue reading
Landing in Littleton … another new start … sort of
June 6, 2022 … Monday (84 degrees/cloudy/stormy skies in the distance) And here we are … again. I left Littleton on a sunny May morning back in 2012 (Chicago-bound) and arrived back again on another May morning … ten years … Continue reading
Buh Bye, WA … Hello, Open Road …
May 18, 2022 ~ Wednesday night (nearly midnight mountain time/468.1 miles under my belt) Greetings from the road tripping Lobster! It’s been a while since my last post … I’ve been a little busy. Yesterday the moving van came to … Continue reading