On Wednesdays there is a farmer’s market on what is called the Village Green. It was very pleasant: sunny, not too hot. Booths were awash with goods. Too much (?) pizza was eaten; brown sugar shortbread cookies, too. And I paid with cash. It was not hard to pay with cash. Not because I am [...]
You may well have noticed, that I can always find space to complain. And so, in that vein, I herewith complain about Yahoo! Mail and its repeated attempts to get me to provide secret questions and answers — “required” — so that if I forget my password then I may access my email. But, I [...]
Let us now praise local places, like used bookstores. I am most pleased that in the Internet Age people still want to read in print. (This harkens back to a previous post about the Kindle). Thus, cheers for what is in ink and not merely online, though, ironically, this is my longest post yet and [...]
I read about yardsharing in the local co-op newsletter. Neighbors offering to share their gardens — that is, their garden space in which neighbors can till, or garden too. I have an ungreen thumb so I’m not sure if till specifically refers to the use of hoes and so on. (I’m too lazy at the [...]
Whose order, enforced by whom, and how, and to what end? –Jacques Barzun. There’s a local editorialist who writes under the guise of The Gristle. “Properties are routinely assessed below their actual value, which is a great gift back to property owners.” It seems the implication is that property owners as a class (and who [...]