Thanks, Martha!

A nifty tip from Ms. Stewart that doesn't involve first growing trees to make your own paper:

de-pollenize your lilies to prevent allergy attacks and stained tablecloths!

It takes point-oh-one seconds to gently swipe off the little bulbs of pollen on the ends of the lily stamens with a pinch of your fingers. Volia!

So easy. (Now, is there any way to make the daylilies last longer...?)

Two Houses of Worship

...with one doorway between them??

The Rather Quite Free Three

More than a year has past now since the Terrible Trio launched their first assault on the pristine waters of Lake Lapidus, and the quiet Bellmore community dares to breathe a sigh of relief...

despite the fact that the fugitives remain at large, their declared intention to return to the scene an (as yet) unfulfilled threat.

Well, There You Go!

That's how you compete with those 99-cent stores, isn't it? Find your niche.

Those Amazing Ospreys

On a boat ride out to the Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, the guide pointed out this osprey nest in the channel. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed with the metalworking capabilities of the birds.

Fiona Welcomes Us Back

Since we've returned there's been laundry and weeding and oh, yeah, that getting-up-and-going-to-work thing that takes up so much time. Irritating.

Anyway, there's also been Fiona to appease. She missed us so...

We Are Back

...back from Alaska, from Anchorage land of the midnight sun, from the land of Denali the big mountain, which graced us some four-count-em-four times during our stay, from Mendenhall, the glacier you can walk up to and damn near shake hands with, from the Tongass, one kick-ass forest primeval, and from the Inside Passage, a waterway of beauty such as I have only seen before in the last Lords of the Rings movie, where everybody goes off into the West...

we had a great time