The Adventures of Roberta X

     At 30°F, this has been the Fall's coldest morning -- and the prognosticators are saying "coldest until Monday."       I ...

      With the furnace iffy, the official outside temperature hit 33°F last night.  That's out at the airport; in town, we can count on ...

      The twenty-year-old furnace at Roseholme Cottage has a cracked heat exchanger.  Oh, it's not a large crack, just a long, lovely, m...

      What's a "sore winner?"  A lot of media attention has been focused on the possibility of sore losers, especially in the ...

      The route I  take to the North Campus passes right by one of the "satellite" early voting locations.  TV news had shown huge...

      Blogger ate my morning's post!  No time to re-do it, either.

      Did everything but shelf work -- started straightening out the basement, because we'll have the furnace looked over for Fall on W...

      Thanks to one of us planning breakfast and the other planning supper, we started the day with little breakfast steaks, hash browns and...

      We had sunshine and warm temperatures yesterday.  Birds were singing, a soft breeze was blowing and I'm told the Fall colors were ...

      "...the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month...

     It rained heavily yesterday evening and overnight.  I went to bed with storms and woke up at five a.m. to loud thunder and lighting -- ...

      Nope, not the Presidential race -- much as that promises to be a laugh a minute, come Thursday night* -- it's the first debate in ...