Cottage Status Report 20260823
I think I am about to jinx myself, but I have not seen a single dock spider yet this year. Maybe my secret voodoo helped? Who knows. Anyhow, I am sure a vindictive army of them will greet me for my morning swim tomorrow, just to prove they do in fact exist. In contrast, the Eurasian milfoil is astoundingly prolific, …
Cottage Status Report 20260709
Is it just me, or is ant season more like an ant insurrection this year? For a while, it was the medium-sized ones, who succumbed successfully (I think I just ...
Cottage Status Report 20260531
Like an eclipse of the sun and the moon happening in sync, pollen season and ant season have arrived simultaneously in our part of the woods. To be fair, they ...
Cottage Status Report 20260508
This may initially appear to be off topic but bear with me. I must confess that I have been allowing Pete Hegseth to take up far too much of the ...
The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published in 2025.
