In balance? Or teetering on the brink...

Happy autumnal equinox, everyone.

Astronomy Photo of the Day

Depending on your outlook, you may see that as delightful or ominous. For glass-half-full folks, it's the best of both worlds - warm days and cool nights, gardens still bearing and sheds full of firewood, the landscape mellowing into the richest palette of the year.

I try to be both the ant and the grasshopper: I make sure the shelves glow with jars of peaches; bags of tomatoes jazz up the freezer; and I see there are raspberries enough for a batch of jam, BUT I spend a good hour lying in the shade of the redwood, snuggling with a couple of purring cats, watching birds and animals in the amusement park that is our woodlot.

I like to think it's a matter of achieving balance in all things, but I know I'm just lazy and happy.

Skip this is you don't like snarky political digs...

Ran across this on http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/


Maybe it's funny; maybe it's mean-spirited and stupid.

You decide; I've listened to so much partisan claptrap that my moral compass is spinning out of control.

Free at last! Free at last!

I see a day when he can have his hotcakes without my having to make them! Check this out: http://www.batterblaster.com/

And thanks, Moxie, for alerting the waiting world to a life-changing product!
Never mind about the aerosol can; nothing's perfect, and at least the batter's organic and the propellant is ozone-safe.

Seriously, I think I love this, and I haven't even tried it. I know I'm a slow-food kind of woman, but golly, this is just too darned sweet! Be sure to watch the video; I can't wait to watch him shake it like they do in the ad...