I hired a crew from the garden center to prune my apple tree. A pair of mockingbirds just lighted on the upper branches, and then changed their minds quickly. #gardening

I’m glad somebody explained truck-packing practices to me because without that, getting this hardware in this box wouldn’t make any sense at all. #FedEx

A couple of curtain hooks, maybe five inches long, are sitting next to the box they were delivered in, which is about 30 inches long.

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 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.

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.

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.