All summer, I was gardening and mowing and weed-whacking and I never had a hint that all those #wasps were there. That’s what I call good neighbors.
The squirrels around here are a bunch of slobs. #squirrel
The CEO of #Apple has been behaving disgracefully, so it pleases me to think that I’m already doing the thing that annoys him most: I’m still using my 2012 iMac.
Despite frozen snow and sleet all around, the #taco truck on the corner is OPEN. Repeat: they are OPEN. 🌮
The town celebrated its bicentennial today, and the entire police force was at the ceremony. I’m thinking our local criminal element missed an opportunity.
Awoke this morning with terrible knowledge: You can sing “Mack the Knife” to the tune of “My Darling Clementine”, but if you do, you ruin both songs.
Despite living in the Anglosphere for three decades, my French wife did not know the word “kazoo”. So I went to the toy box and played one for her. FYI, “La Marseillaise” is a great tune to play on the #kazoo.
The grocery store gave me a coupon for fresh vegetables. 😮
Today the mailman brought a #ChristmasCard addressed to the previous owners of our house. I bought this place in 1997. I admire the sender’s perseverance.
A new year, a new observation to confirm my hypothesis that nobody has ever been woken by the sound of someone washing dishes.
A fire truck was behind the 7-11, spraying water on a dumpster that had caught fire. It’s not just a metaphor!
It’s a lot easier to mend a fence when it’s 45°F and calm, compared to last weekend when it was 19°F and the wind was gusting to 20 knots. But everyone except me already knew that.
My wife is a nutritionist, so I get to eat chocolate cake for breakfast. #vegan
2012: Wife tells me to get rid of that old table. I do not. I disassemble it and hide it in the back of a storeroom. 2025: Wife needs a table for her studio. Gives me the dimensions. Asks how much I think one will cost. I think I can get one for free. 😀
Today is the 10th anniversary of my blog, Idiosophy. 323 posts and 46,000 visits so far. Many of those visitors were humans! Here’s my favorite post, to celebrate. #Tolkien #comfrey #dogs
We have a bad mailman, but that’s sort of OK. Knocking on neighbors’ doors to give them mis-delivered letters and packages is one of the things that builds community.
This town is so quiet, the funeral director has gone out of business.
Yes, but as a noted scientist, it would be a bit surprising if a girl blinded me with science!
Is there a connection between the sagas of Wayland the Smith and #Tolkien’s creation of Fëanor? phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2025/11/2…
I instructed one of my #fencing students🤺 to imitate a mongoose attacking a cobra. He had never seen that before. What are parents teaching their children these days?
It’s Veterans’ Day and I’m on furlough. Today’s a double day off!
“Defence is a wearisome affair.” You can say that again! #Tolkien stephencwinter.com/2025/11/0…
Voting this morning was fun. I think I’ll go back again on the way home! #uspol
At a family gathering in 1990, I was introduced to my wife’s grandfather’s brother’s widow’s second husband. After a few seconds’ thinking, it was unanimously determined that the word in Virginia for that relationship is #Uncle.
Cleared out a hectare of pokeweed with the bush hog. Now my tractor looks like something from a Stephen King novel. #weeds