Sing We Now of Christmas
The songs will rise on December 21 at three o’clock in the Garrettsville United Methodist Church, set on the air by the Chancel Choir,...
How Now, Brown Cow
Countryside Veterinary Services keeping you in good health? Well, yes, but dogs and cats are getting even more premium care at the Garrettsville outpost since...
Holiday Howlers
No. I am not communicating with owls, just miscellaneous rants for the season. I have been saving up a number of “pet peeves” to...
Salt of The Earth?
Visited the Himalayas lately? Lost tons (!) of weight? Paid ANY attention to the latest in food(!) fads online? Got the recipe? A person can hardly open...
(OFA) Old Farmers’ Almanac
The Daylight Savings Time switchover has not often been so noticeable …for me anyway. Probably because of the looooong autumn (bordering on summer, really),...
(OFA) Old Farmers’ Almanac
Done with All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, done with Election Day, done with the Full Beaver Moon (Didn’t see them out celebrating), daylight...
Candy, And Then Some
Gotta get me a clicker/counter gadget so that I can have an accurate reckoning of how many trick-or-treaters that show up at my porch....
Hello Again
Let’s get down to brass tacks. I am, to put it politely, unreliable. Gimme a week off and, “Lo, and Behold !” I’ll take...
The Cat’s Meow
Well, maybe. We have a new prospective Porch Kitty. Rusty (not a serious automotive epizootic but a light orange mini-kitty) has arrived. He is currently...
Keep The Change
The on-line spoofers are at it again. Second or third call this week letting me know that I have won fabulous sums of money,...
Salt of the Earth
I cannot be the only one being urged to try the “Himalayan Salt Trick”. It’s everywhere online and in some publications too. Every digital...
Hands OFF!!!!
What is it with people who seem to think that everything…EVERYTHING…is theirs to do with as they please? Whatever…whenever…wherever…however they please. How does this...
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty
That was me after the football game on Friday. Driving home on Liberty St.--late–just past SkyLanes, I spotted a cat in the road…putting at...
Aaaaannnnnd we’re off !!
Told ya ! As soon as the Fourth of July is done, it’s the looonnnng slide into SCHOOL. Slide’s over now and here we are,...
Between a rock and a hard place!
How, How, How is a person supposed to manage to learn to use these devices if all of the instructions assume that you already...
Bikers. I Need Bikers!
Well, one, anyway. We can skip the heavy metal, major leather, tattoo extravaganza biker-types (Not that I have anything against such displays, mind you) I...
Applause! Applause!
That goes to the latest iteration of theatrical presentation by the Garrettsville Curtains Up Theatre, a farce titled “The Play That Goes Wrong”...which it...
Play It Again, Sam!
That’s a famous line from a famous movie (Or at least one everybody thinks that they remember, whether they did or not. Casablanca?). We...
I’ve Gotta Get Out More
No. Really Then I would not be so amazed at what’s out there. Walking around in front of God and everybody. Nor is it just...
Skip The Waiting Room
…Or not. Local boy, Jared Sheehan, having made good (more or less–he’s the chief innovation officer at a company called Quick MD and co-founded various...
Well, Alrighty Then…
Quite the SummerFest it was. A good deal of the time, it was “hotter than the hinges of hell”, but almost all of the time...
The Wheels On The Bus…
Even more important than the wheels on the bus is the driver behind the steering wheel in the front of the bus. Here’s your...
Are We Festive Yet???
June is sorta shy of big-time holidays and celebrations. Ya got yer Flag Day on the 14th, yer Full Strawberry Moon on the 11th,...
C–JAG, Atten-Hut !!!
Army-ish orders from Camp James A. Garfield. Kinda. The recent tour of Camp James A. Garfield (As one participant commented during a Q&A session :”...
Going, Going… GONE!
Well, mostly. The annual Rummage Sale at the Garrettsville Family YMCA has moved off into the history books…well, books of some sort anyway (There really...
Thank You 2025!
The Class of 2025 may wish to claim responsibility for the excellent weather this weekend. Might as well start out on the rest of...
May Musings
As someone at the Y said to me the other day, “Must be gonna rain, it’s Yard/Garage Sale weekend.” That proved to be prophetic;...
