World Refrigeration Day Simone Thursday, June 26, 2025 Everyone chill out! June 26th is World Refrigeration Day , which gives tribute to refrigeration, a… Read more
It's Summertime Simone Saturday, June 21, 2025 This is both a fact and a Flaming Lips tune -- the perfect thing to blast out your car window… Read more
Resurrected Post from 2011 ---When Life Was Busy & Nuts! Simone Wednesday, June 04, 2025 This is the time of year I go crazy. The end of school year stuff is completely maddening. How will… Read more
We Are Hoping Aliens Can Read This Simone Tuesday, June 03, 2025 It's called The Golden Record, and we shot it into space. Though it sounds and looks a bit li… Read more
The Trees Know Things Simone Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Get this: Trees do talk to each other like the Ents in Lord of the Rings, and old trees are wise,… Read more
This Juicer Is Lit Simone Thursday, May 08, 2025 I just found out this old juicer from my childhood contains uranium. What?? When I was a kid I thou… Read more
A Half-Ton Metal Object is Falling From the Sky Simone Tuesday, May 06, 2025 It's Coming! Maybe headed your way. Who the huck knows??! A spacecraft launched by the Soviet… Read more
Worm Charming Simone Thursday, April 10, 2025 Next time you want a mass of worms to come wriggling up out of the earth ---and who doesn't -… Read more
Fairy Go Round Simone Thursday, March 27, 2025 Annabelle brought loads of phlox to the house last weekend and we planted them around the trunks of… Read more
It's spring! ----a visualization Simone Thursday, March 20, 2025 What better way to bring the vernal equinox to life than with a meat carcass being rotated ar… Read more
Ides of March Merchandise Simone Saturday, March 15, 2025 Get Yours Today! Not pictured ---the "Knives Out" cutlery set. Compact design stores… Read more
Sheer Lunar-cy Simone Friday, March 14, 2025 I'm not one to let a blood moon lunar eclipse go unobserved. Seeing a celestial body change i… Read more
Doubly Strange Egg Anomaly Simone Wednesday, March 12, 2025 It's happening again. Is someone messing with me? Out on a morning walk, I encountered random… Read more
Space Gray Simone Friday, March 07, 2025 The color "space gray", reminds me of the cool metal shade we'd see on computers an… Read more
A Magnet Is Born Simone Saturday, March 01, 2025 Magnets are magical little objects but I had no idea making them was so badass. The messy and… Read more
Tornado Drill! Simone Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Just like that winter is turning to spring and in Kansas that means one thing -- let the tornado … Read more
My Favorite Type of Storm Simone Saturday, February 22, 2025 Long live the brainstorm! I say this on behalf of cerebrums everywhere, while we're still al… Read more
Polar Vortex Cometh Simone Tuesday, February 18, 2025 C'est ici--another polar vortex. The arctic chill deepens in this endless winter. I look o… Read more
A Cold Day in Hell Simone Sunday, February 09, 2025 That describes the current conditions. Oh dear. I have a whole list of things that fall under &qu… Read more
Griping About the Cold Simone Saturday, January 25, 2025 I know it's not even February yet but I feel entitled to bitch about this bitch-ass cold. We&… Read more
Winter Beer Report - What I'm Drinkin' Simone Thursday, January 23, 2025 Best beer for these dark, frigid nights (and days!) is Northern Lights IPA from Free State Brewer… Read more
Mystery Stone Simone Thursday, January 16, 2025 I enountered this large-ass stone sitting in a weird place. (Another anomaly found on one of my mor… Read more
I Embrace Lard Simone Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Yes, this is a jar full of lard. Honest-to-goodness lard, from a farm. In this winter of my disco… Read more
Storm's A-Comin! Simone Friday, January 03, 2025 There will be snow. There will be ice. We could lose power! In preparation, I've stocked the… Read more
On The Edge of Something Simone Thursday, January 02, 2025 Or just on edge. Or out on the ledge. Being talked off it.... Just need something to take the ed… Read more
Cheeses Of My Life I have tasted the cheese, er cheeses, of my life –a P’tit Basque and Prince De Claverolle. Both cheeses are French, mad… Keep reading
Typing Fool Ack! I hate it when I don't have time to blog.But the Jerry clip is me right now. I have been trying to keep up wit… Keep reading
Dirty Water This is one of my favorite songs from the 60's. We had the 45 when I was a kid. I listened to it in the basement ag… Keep reading
Day Of My Increasing Power I went to Revocup today, since it's my birthday and ordered a LARGE soy chai latte. They have a fortune-telling 8 … Keep reading
Endangered Doughnuts Are Krispy Kreme doughnuts leaving the planet? I experienced my first Hot Doughnut Now at a Krispy Kreme in Miami, and i… Keep reading
I'm melting! --which is a good thing. It's March! It feels like spring! It's in the 60's! 70's! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! … Keep reading