Last year — yes, it’s been almost a year — when I bought my house in California, I was struck by the absence of autumn. The leaves were still on the trees well into December, the days were warm and sunny.
What a difference a year makes.
It’s definitely fall here. The temps are a bit nippy, the wind is whipping up, and there are dead leaves blowing up and down the street. Still, the trees in my yard are fully dressed, but I’ll be out there raking soon, I can tell.
Time to unpack my sweaters…
I am just bewildered and horrified and in shock. Every time I see the news, the death toll in Asia has risen by thousands. It just overwhelms, and such a huge number — 20,000 dead as of this morning’s paper [more...]
Well, here I sit — well, stand actually, since I don’t have any furniture here yet — in the office at my new house, where the internet connection has just been installed. It seems to be working [more...]
Here’s another thing I don’t quite understand. My house was built in 1983. It was initially purchased for $103,000. 15 years later, it had increased in value by $28,000. In the last year, between 2003 and [more...]
