Northview Diary

  We hit 31 a week or so ago , but nothing but the sweet basil was bothered. However, last night it got down to 30 degrees. Brrr....the car ...

I made Grape Jelly. It took two days. My feet hurt . 

  The setting -an 8X10X6' high chain link dog run with a concrete floor. Cast of characters: Mack the Dog, Jack Russell Terrier extraord...

  This was written in 2006 , but I have not forgotten Since September 11, 2001 , when one of the planes that flew into the World Trade Cente...

  Tis the season. You wake up to a brisk fifties morning. The rising sun glints gently off fog rising off the river and drifting up toward ...

  Mom and Dad

  Sorry, no Gin. I was 8 when we moved to the Mohawk Valley. Theretofore unknown to me, it became a talisman.  F rom the old limestone abut...

Come along with me for a quick bit of time travel back to the early nineteen-sixties. We Montgomery kids spent the summers and most of our ...

Weird summer here for sure . Long dry spells interrupted by sometimes days of torrential rainfall. It's been cooler than normal for the ...

To these fine dads and all the rest of you good men out there. Have a great one !  

  Not today! That was some storm last night. Nobody got enough sleep to mention ....huge rains, hour upon hour, thunder, lightning that made...

  Rita, out there in the deadly grass ... The mantra of random smug strangers  on the internet when they are losing an argument to someone w...

  I hope Heaven is everything they say it is. Give Dad a hug for me... Love, Dotter

  From Cypress Wetlands , Port Royal, SC

  A week   month   ago it felt like anything but spring here. It was cold and grim and not much fun. (not much better now either. What a yea...