Cottage Status Report 20260905
In case you were wondering, yes, of course I did in fact jinx myself. A dock spider as big as a Buick has stationed himself (herself?) right in front of the dock ladder and refuses to budge, regardless of any dock stomping. I was reduced to walking into the water down the boat ramp, running the gauntlet of the prolific …
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 ...
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 ...
The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published in 2025.
