For three years we have had a colony of honey bees nesting in the wall of our house. They established themselves by entering under the timbers that support the deck on the upper story of the house. We have been working on a plan to remove them without injuring them. This weekend, proving they are a healthy colony,… Read More »
On March 7th and 8th, Carol attended the annual ‘Writing Today’ conference at my alma mater, Birmingham-Southern College, in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a great conference for Carol, and a chance for us to see how much the school has grown since we left in 1969, and to hear and meet the famous writer Walter Mosley, author of… Read More »
Today, January 2, 2008, we woke up to the second day of the new year here in Bloomington with about an inch of snow on the ground, and the thermometer on our deck hanging right at zero degrees Fahrenheit, or maybe a degree below zero. On New Year’s Day, we had a traditional Southern noontime New Year’s Day… Read More »